The Confessional

[graham]

My favourite bit of YM is the true confessions at the back.

Do you think it would be a good idea to ask Keith about having a "confessionall" forum on here?

I think between us there must be a substantial collection of amusing boating cock ups waiting to be retold /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[alistairedw]

OK. You go first.

 

[Topcat47]

I too am a fan of the confessional...it's nice to see I'm not the only one who screws up. The trouble is, the fukups that make me wake up screaming with embarassment are too raw to allow me to post them, even under a pseudonym and the ones I admit to, too commonplace to merit an entry.

 

[Wansworth]

I ran in to the back of a Galician fishing boat.It had been a windless day and I obviously feel asleep and the wretched self steering gear took it as a sign and worked,as I woke up and itwas dark and there where all these voices,so I rushed up on deck an confonted a crew of swarthy fishermen holding on to the boat which was still sailing,With sign language they said I had been asleep.... any way they let go and the boat whizzwd off.I raced round after them but they motored away , anyway I t was along time ago..

 

[sailorman]

a Chap once told me that he had well er /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[BrendanS]

great idea to have a confessional thread, but don't we have too many forums already?

 

[graham]

Personally I think its worth another forum as threads on here dissapear in a day or less but a seperate forum would become easilly accessible humour when your in the mood for that sort of thing.Also there are some serious lessons to be gleaned from some humorous stories.

Ive got a few howlers in mind but will hold on for now to see if the idea catches on.

 

[longjohnsadler]

Absolution my son......er ...absolutely...

 

[Wansworth]

How many hail marys then!¿

 

[longjohnsadler]

Three bloody marys but who's counting?

 

[eebygum]

Personally I found confessing a very Therapeutic experience which makes you laugh after the event when sometimes you were ****ing yourself !

So my crew knew what they were up against I posted the stories on my website...

http://www.contessa26moonshine.me.uk/Confessions.htm

I've not written up the dipstick story yet but you might guess the plot from the headline /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Cheers
Andrew

 

[jimi]

I once used truly butterly instead of proper butter on the cats paws hoping that the wind would return but it did'nt and there was a flat calm and a follow through .. now that was truly butterly embarrassing


thanks

feel a lot butter now.

 

[Steve Clayton]

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Do you think it would be a good idea to ask Keith about having a "confessional" forum on here?

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For those of us who have had a "confessional" printed, and have the original supporting cartoon, and the exhaulted certificate then I, for one, don't see much point /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[graham]

which one was yours Steve?

i agree with you that the ones in the mag are great but as they only do a couple a month anyone whos cock up is perhaps not quite calamitous enough could put it on the forum for the rest of us to decide /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[boguing]

Agreed, must get around to framing it. Problem was that mine was edited before it went to Peyton, and his drawing missed the point a bit. (Liferaft painter down the cockpit drain to prop).

 

[StugeronSteve]

There's nothing like the start of the season to provide a bounteous supply of embarrassing anecdotes. Despite having kept the boat afloat all winter, we have been unable to make use of her and last weekend was our first go for months. No major cockups, but many oversights that could have raised a blush, or two. Rigging the boat to spring the bows off of a Yarmouth pontoon with the front still tied in place would have amused many, had swmbo not "delicately" questionned my preparations.

 

[beancounter]

Not a major one, but here goes...

Curious onlookers in the area of Ipswich docks would have seen a Moody 31 going round in erratic circles on Sunday morning....

We'd rigged the sails on Saturday, and we'd threaded the reefing lines in with the main lying in it's stakpak.

Having cleared the lock, Mrs Beancounter kept us chugging gently to windward across the river while I hauled up the main - only to stop because some eejit (me /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) had threaded the main halyard through the flag halyard. At this point we ran out of river, so round we went while I sorted the lines out.

Round into the wind again, and up went the main, only to come to a grinding halt as we (me?) had managed to tangle reefing lines 1 & 2 at the rear of the sail. Back across the river whilst I did the knitting.

Round again, and up went the sail - only for us to see that we (not me this time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) had somehow twisted the foot of the sail when shackling it to the outhaul. At this point I said "Sod it" , and we left the sail with the first reef in, and set off down river in high dudgeon...

 

[fireball]

We have one of these tubular radar deflectors connected by cable ties to the top of the backstay.... in our little trot to Cowes on Friday one "slam" over a wave saw the unit come down by about a foot .... no problem I thought - when we get in I'll just put a loop around the backstay and hoist it to the top with a halyard ... it was a little stiffer than I thought ... but back to the top it was.
Now have a nice meal in Cowes and go to bed ...

Next morning and we're off to Lymington ... nice little jaunt, just out the entrance and turn left - still a small chop as the tide hadn't finished turning. Standing up by the mast to finish off the mainsail rigging I saw something land in the water less than 1' from the side of the boat.... OOPS .. the cable ties had worn through where I'd forced them back up the backstay ... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Ah well - nice little practice for MOB /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Stemar]

Putting the genny back was a rather embarrasing experience, what with tangled halyards, a shackle that went on the top bearing the wrong way round, so it snagged on the bearing, wilful sheets the insisted on threading themselves inside the shrouds and outside the stanchions and a rollup line that wound itself on the drum the wrong way.

I had to speak to Jissel quite severely.

Pleased to say that the first outing (yesterday) was quite uneventful - apart from the wind that couldn't make up it's mind whether the promised 4 to 5 was force or knots With roller reefing on the main, it's a royal PITA to reef down or let it out, whcih meant that we seemed to be severely undercanvased until I did something about it, then suddenly we were washing the sidedecks - which is as spectacular as it it's unproductive on a Snapdragon!