Somebody has broken my boat

[Frankie-H]

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The 92 year old ketch Helena lost her bowsprit and being semi rolled has damaged stanchions. She's now at PN waiting to be craned out for inspection?
The British couple living aboard the small barge seen in Digbys photo were a bit shaken, in both ways! Helena was berthed between them and Jeanneau. Heresay has it that there was a misunderstanding between barges pilot and captain. Jeanneau has impaled pontoon with her rudder stock and it is the pontoon floats which are preventing her from filling....

Hay Nitchevo

Where are you? I have just taken the same series of photos in P Nap. You have beaten me to it. Make the Helena 98/99 years old. The writing on her bow reads GE (for Geneva) 1913. To have got to this age and this to happen.

All hearsay of course but I am told that the peniche had a pilot on board and when he told the skipper to turn to port for the lock entrance, he turned hard to starboard! Very difficult to believe.

The Fench couple, who own the Janneau, are staying at P Nap and trying to sort the details out from here. In fact a previous poster is quite right and she was fo sale. She is insured and all our premiums go up next year as a result.

 

[Seajet]

There may be some confusion here; the skippers of Peniches are usually known as 'pilots', which led to all sorts of fun when I was asked if I had a pilots' licence !

 

[savageseadog]

Any guesses as to how this might have happened.

Could have been worse, still has a keel. Just think if it had been a Bav.

 

[Plomong]

The writing on her bow reads GE (for Geneva) 1913.

I would have thought that that is her registration number. It's in the position mandated by Spanish regulations, and probably those of other countries, too.

Plomong

 

[GrumpyOldGit]

No not mine , thank God. One I saw yesterday and took my camera with me.

Not a ferry but very close. A barge came out of the lock in Pt St Louis and failed to make the turn in the port basin.

He must be the world champion **** barge driver, the lock is about 300m from that side of the basin !

Love to the girls in Lidl . Every one a beauty..