The credit card skipper, video.

The BVIs is full of muppets like this, especially during Christmas/New Year and Spring Break.
 
We have just returned from the South of France. Dont be too envious, the weather was better here. One of the little bays we go to has buoys you pick up, they are the easiest ones in the world, a doddle. First we watched a German flagged Nuaticat picking one up. It took 4 attempts, when they did get hold of it the first time the crew member was left stretching desperately trying to keep hold of the boat hook before she had to let go as the helm insisted on keeping power on after she hooked it up. We then watched 3 more boat hooks appear with various people running around the boat as the helm passed the buoy at speed. But that was nothing, the following day a 6 Brits on a big (very big) chartered Bav turned up. I suspect no one on board had ever pick up a buoy in their life, a good hours entertainment!!
 
The credit card surely thing refers to one of the two types of charterer.

One asks how big a boat can I manage.

The other asks how big a boat can I afford.
 
TQA said:
Did you spot the guy on the foredeck coiling the rope?

Coiling

Still coiling

Hot darn that is one well coiled rope.

If you did not spot him I guess you were bemused by the green bikini.
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He's displaying Rabbit in the headlights displacement activity, I suspect. Everything is going belly up, but I'm arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
 
Boat? What boat? I could only see the contents of a green bikini.

Ok, semi-seriously, we've all had bad days but these guys seem to completely oblivious to the mayhem they're causing. Rope coiling, mooching about on deck, no sense of urgency from anyone on the boat (clearly plenty from those in the tenders, cracking tug boat efforts BTW!).

One wonders how much of the charter fee is passed straight to the insurance company.
 
FistralG said:
It's a commonly used phrase in the BVI's to indicate a charterer with money but little or no experience.
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And there are some absolute crackers floating around the BVI's, in some of the more crowded and popular locations life can be very interesting. The fun normally begins when a 50 foot yacht arrives in a crowded anchorage with say 5 metres depth, crew throws an anchor with 6 metres of chain over the side then jump straight into a dinghy and off to the bar. Most memorably was the yacht that tied up to a mooring buoy that had been cut loose and was not attached to any ground tackle, crew tied the boat up to the buoy and went straight ashore.

Most of the BVI charter boats are reasonably well crewed, however a small, but significant, number seem to have little experience.
 
I was having a quiet beer, minding my own business at my local harbour, I watched a yacht approaching, he came very close to the beach and picked up a buoy, tied off, then rowed ashore in his dinghy. He had picked up a buoy that keeps swimmers and boats apart, there is a long line of them, a bit of string and a breeze block is all that tethers them to the seabed. I politely mentioned this to him, his reply was, I have been sailing a lot longer than you have been sitting at bars I know what I am doing. About a minute later the penny must have dropped, he sheepishly rowed back to his yacht and buggered off, he had to walk past me but refused to look in my direction, he must have felt a plonker, I did have a chuckle, he who laughs last etc.
 
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