Stupidest Boat Injury...Ever!

[TomIsitt]

Ever injured yourself on board your boat in a breath-takingly stupid way? I have just got back from the A&E department where I was forced to tell them this sorry tale:

St Peter Port on a balmy night in early June. I am in the company of a dozen Sunseekers and their owners. We're having a bit of a party. It's 3am and I have to confess that a certain amount of alcoholic refreshment had been enjoyed. Three Apache 45s are rafted up together and the sound-system of one of them is cranked up. The others are sporting a disco-ball, fairy lights, flashing disco lights and a bubble machine that filled the night air with bubbles. There is a certain amount of dancing on the foredecks, singing along with Dexey's Midnight Runners, and evil Pimms and Champagne cocktails are doing the rounds.

With a glass of Champagne in hand I execute a particularly audacious series of dance steps on the foredeck of one of the Apaches, at which point I discover that all those lovely bubbles blowing all over the place have the effect of making the foredeck quite slippery. Actually, very slippery. As my feet skid from beneath me my one thought is "don't spill the Champagne". And, to be fair, I didn't. Nor did I land directly on the deck...the camera in my inside jacket pocket broke my fall. And cracked two of my ribs.

As one spectator observed: "It wasn't big, and it wasn't clever...but it was bloody funny!"

Anybody manage a more stupid boating injury than that?

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[byron]

I hoped you wondered what the poor people were doing while you were busy slipping on Bubbles bubbles. At best they were slipping on a spilt brown & mild.

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[boatone]

Well come on then......where's the pix?
(and is the camera ok?)

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[TomIsitt]

Camera OK, pics strangely blurry

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[markc]

I broke my fingers in the anchor winch when making sure the load of chain that spewed onto the deck when someone stood on the down switch went in 'neatly'. We were bouncing around on a buoy in the Solent and with trapped fingers I had to remember which was the down switch to release them. If I had hit the wrong 'un, would have lost 2 1/2 fingers!!! Makes me feel queesy even now! See pic on the link below

M

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[HowardB]

Nice Piccies...

... It always worries me to see my pride and joy dangling on a length of cable like that though!

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[duncan]

take issue with the reference to "evil pimms and champagne..." poetry in a glass - anyway it's mixed!
sorry to hear the story - but ribs just don't count in the damage stakes as we used to get told ; the muscles will strap them far better than any bandages, just get on with it!

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[whisper]

Nah ! Serves him right for creating / enjoying loutish anti-social behavior at an ungodly hour in what had been a pleasant and quiet CI marina. I had a hell of a job trying to get to sleep. Gives the rest of us Stinkies a bad name - I spent the next day apologising to the other marina users.


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[TomIsitt]

Hmmmm....sorry about that. Was a bit rowdy and antisocial. Got a bollocking from a raggie friend of mine who turned out to be in St Peter Port that same night.

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[burgundyben]

Nearly......

Cork Week 2000, my birffday, guinness promotion, stolen 'Ford Cork Week' sign being used as a tray to carry about a dozen pints of guinness resting on coachroof of a 40 foot raggie, we've polished off a few bottles of Cliquot in the cockpit, I got up to start handing the pints of black stuff to the crew, I stood on a wire safety line (ironic eh?) which rolled across the deck, I fell, landing on my left little finger and dislocating it in middle so its pointing out sideways.

Oh, and every pint of black stuff was over....................all bloody 12 of them.....

(Lets not talk about the broken ankle.....)

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[tcm]

Well, I rigged up a hammock once on a sailing boat, got in, very nice, stretched out, tra-lah! luxuree! - and then bang one end let go and i smacked my head rather badly, fell down the side of boat and just saved myself from going through the guardwire. There was lots of laughter from some other boats on the pontoons opposite. Obviously, something really funny must have happened over there at the same time.

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[oldsaltoz]

Completed a race to one of the local resorts, then attended the presentation and barbie ashore with much celebration; time came to return to the boat and I placed myself in the bow to be first out, all went well, two more out after me then the dinghy flipped putting two in the water.

Now we are only 20 metres from the beach, between two islands with about a knot of current, one of the two in the water decided to tread water as the other had taken off into the dark after a deck shoe.

I threw a line out but they failed to spot it, swimming hard back to the boat; they got within 5 metres and said they not could swim another stroke; they had been in the water for about 30 minutes.

When the look on their faces was close to panic, the skipper decided it was time to let them know the water was only 3 and a half feet deep, so they could walk back if too tired to swim.



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[DavidJ]

a friend, not me
In 7 meters of water in the Adriatic decided to put out a second anchor so out with the lie-low load up the anchor and proceed to paddle out to the nominated spot. The anchor is not very secure so he ties it to his wrist, continues to paddle out and (you've guessed it already) the anchor falls in taking friend instantly down 7 metres. Fortunatly in the likely 2 minutes that he has left of life he unties the string and bobs to the surface. It took him a whole day to recover.

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