Sunk!!

[2_rollocks]

Went out today, strong Easterlies for the best part of a week have brought with them a huge swell which was breaking, and there was me in my fairly new 25 footer when we got totally swamped. If it wasn't for the 4 large buckets which we keep on board we would certainly have sunk. The waves put paid to all the electronics and knocked out the batteries. Luckily a passing fishing boat took us in tow safely back into Plymouth.

So much for all the safety precautions we have taken over the last season or so, a few unexpected waves just after wew had poked our nose around the corner almost put paid to us all. My dad said we shouldn't have gone out, guess his experience was right. And he doesn't believe in all these new fangled navigational/electronic aids, just good old fashioned seamanship!

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[longjohnsilver]

Oh dear do you now feel happy or very grumpy?? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[lanason]

I think the word he will be looking for is LUCKY !!

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[DepSol]

Wot boat is it?


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2003 is going to be a good year for me

 

[kindredspirit]

A good idea is to always check the wave heights on the ODAS Buoys as well as the weather forecast before you go out.

And after seeing breaking waves in the distance, you should have turned around immediately and got out of there.

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[omega2]

This guy cannot be real, surely he can see the sea state from the harbour wall, surely the voyage could have been postponed, just the type that puts everyone at risk. i.e. lifeboats and coastgaurd

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[gonfishing]

sorry adout the boat it did not desrve that,but i hope the incident has severeky dented your ego, to the point where you will be hunble enough to give the coastgaurd a call, to ask his advice before setting out again and putting lives at stake needleessly
p.s take up fishing you will soon learn the only place to be in or immediately after an easterly is the pub

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[Blue_Blazes]

Aarh, when the winds in the East, the fish they bite least!

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[Trevor_swfyc]

Wind over tide go and hide.

You were lucky the wind during the day fell from 15 knts at 10.00 hrs to < 10 knts by 13.00 hrs. This has been a sharpe learning curve hope you get the boat sorted out, was the engine effected by the swamping.

Trevor

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[coliholic]

JUst to make you feel better, this is how rough it was in the Thames Estuary on Friday too.

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[Trevor_swfyc]

AS SMOOTH AS A BABIES BUM!

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[Renegade_Master]

Is that that UFO we saw just coing into view Colin?

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[kimhollamby]

Note of caution

There aren't many ODAS buoys and occasionally they misread (or like the Lyme Bay one, get stuck for long periods of time). Be careful with that data.

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[kindredspirit]

Re: Note of caution

Kim,

I was going by my own experience on the west coast of Ireland.

I use the M1 Buoy for wave heights outside the Shannon estuary and the M3 Buoy for wave heights out of Cork Harbour.

I presumed the UK would have had plenty of ODAS buoys. I always check because the situation outside at sea can be vastly different to one half a mile outside the harbour.

Kevin.

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