Planty
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Picked up a trot outside Yarmouth IOW on Saturday, right in the middle of a row. Mate parked up on next one astern. Standing on the aft pondering whether to get Rib off or use Water Taxi, when hear mate shouting at me, as I thought, "Who's in Front, Who's in Front". I thought cheeky ba*****rd and was about to give a cheeky two fingers, when I realised he was shouting "Look out, Front, Look out Front!".
I peered around the length of the boat just as a ble***ng massive sail boat, parked itself side on, to the bow of our boat!! The noise was horrendous!! He hit it at one hell of a lick, God knows what he was doing fully sailed up in the middle of the anchorages but from his comments as he hit us (43foot Sealine Flybridge, )he obviously hadn't seen us at all, nor the Sqaddy 58 in front or the S43 behind us.
Anyway he had pushed off our bow before I had got up front and said he would desail and come back around to exchange details. Which in truth he did very charmingly and very apologetically. Our anchor had literally ripped shreds in his topsides and hull. However on closer inspection, apart from a little scratch on the chrome rubbing strake and the white rubber beneath, not a mark on us, thank God!! Long live anchors on bows, and the little "beaks" Sealine shroud them in, for now!! Paul
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I peered around the length of the boat just as a ble***ng massive sail boat, parked itself side on, to the bow of our boat!! The noise was horrendous!! He hit it at one hell of a lick, God knows what he was doing fully sailed up in the middle of the anchorages but from his comments as he hit us (43foot Sealine Flybridge, )he obviously hadn't seen us at all, nor the Sqaddy 58 in front or the S43 behind us.
Anyway he had pushed off our bow before I had got up front and said he would desail and come back around to exchange details. Which in truth he did very charmingly and very apologetically. Our anchor had literally ripped shreds in his topsides and hull. However on closer inspection, apart from a little scratch on the chrome rubbing strake and the white rubber beneath, not a mark on us, thank God!! Long live anchors on bows, and the little "beaks" Sealine shroud them in, for now!! Paul
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