Swale boaters lost in fog 'rescued'

That's not Ailsa Craig, that the spot in the Thames Estuary where windfarm cables criss-cross each other and they keep adding rocks to the pile.....:encouragement:
 
Come on YBW, for heavens sake!

I get the use of stock photos, I really do but whoever chose a photo of a Scottish all weather lifeboat to illustrate a story about a Kentish inshore lifeboat rescue (and one with a very recognisable landmark in it at that) needs a talking to and no mistake!

Must try harder
 
Erbas said:
Come on YBW, for heavens sake!
I get the use of stock photos, I really do but whoever chose a photo of a Scottish all weather lifeboat to illustrate a story about a Kentish inshore lifeboat rescue (and one with a very recognisable landmark in it at that) needs a talking to and no mistake!
Must try harder
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I have always got the impression that these YBW 'stories' are hand-crafted by someone who has no knowledge of boating whatsoever.
Quite apart from the silly stock pic, comments like 'the lifeboat soon located them despite the poor vis' are just daft - if they were tied up to a nav buoy, they'd told the CG exactly where they could be found! But then YBW were probably lifting text from the local RNLI's own press release.
Another case of grockles out there with presumably no charts and no compass, even more stupidly it was at night. Met quite a few such people when I was on a CG Rescue Team. In past times, Darwin would have usually prevailed in such cases.
 
Cantata said:
I have always got the impression that these YBW 'stories' are hand-crafted by someone who has no knowledge of boating whatsoever
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:encouragement:

Gladys said:
Mersey class 12-33 is a stand-by lifeboat which would pop up aroun the country
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Fair enough but it's still an All Weather Lifeboat, not an Inshore Rescue Boat (and surely staff editing stories at YBW ought to be able to tell the difference twixt the two) and it doesn't excuse the presence of Ailsa Craig in a photo illustrating a story about the flippin' Swale!

It's lazy journalism (sorry YBW peeps, but it really is)
 
12-33 "Fisherman's Friend" certainly seems to be getting around a bit.

As well as Sheerness, she was also at
Penarth, a couple of weeks ago: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/man-dies-falling-yacht-off-south-wales-9562
Portland in October: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...cued-from-battered-and-dismasted-trimaran-253
Lough Swilly in September: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/six-men-rescued-from-sinking-fishing-boat-396

And apparently she had to go past Ailsa Craig every time....

Mind you, they are all better-illustrated than this RNLI-related story, which carries a picture of some random aquarium, with absolutely nothing to do with the story! http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...dered-to-pay-1000-to-rnli-in-compensation-356
 
dombuckley said:
12-33 "Fisherman's Friend" certainly seems to be getting around a bit.

As well as Sheerness, she was also at
Penarth, a couple of weeks ago: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/man-dies-falling-yacht-off-south-wales-9562
Portland in October: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...cued-from-battered-and-dismasted-trimaran-253
Lough Swilly in September: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/six-men-rescued-from-sinking-fishing-boat-396

And apparently she had to go past Ailsa Craig every time....

Mind you, they are all better-illustrated than this RNLI-related story, which carries a picture of some random aquarium, with absolutely nothing to do with the story! http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...dered-to-pay-1000-to-rnli-in-compensation-356
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But the Fisherman's Friend was also involved in your last story, as a link from it to another report on the same case clearly shows: http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/drunk-sailor-case-prompts-warning-from-rnli-504. She obviously had to pass Ailsa Craig on her way to Montrose ...
 
Erbas said:
...Fair enough but it's still an All Weather Lifeboat, not an Inshore Rescue Boat (and surely staff editing stories at YBW ought to be able to tell the difference twixt the two) and it doesn't excuse the presence of Ailsa Craig in a photo illustrating a story about the flippin' Swale!

It's lazy journalism (sorry YBW peeps, but it really is)
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But also in fairness, we do now expect every story – however minor - to be illustrated, to an extent which our forebears would have found incredible. I don’t think I really grasped just how much photography has changed our world view (so to speak) until I read Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’. “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
 
It can't be that hard to get some stock photos of life boats with nothing in the background!

Only the colour of the water would let the experienced East Coaster know it's not a local boat...
 
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