Daydream believer
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Today's Solent disasters.
- Thread starter solent clown
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lpdsn
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You most certainly can tell a Yorkshireman that ...... whether he'll listen is a very different matter.
Richard
I know. I've a few Yorkshire mates & relatives.
solent clown
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we went out this afternoon, motored downriver, under the Itchen bridge, it was a glorious day viewed from behind the sprayhood, so on we ploughed past the poo pipes and the Woolston moorings until it was time to mess about with the Jib to test Karen's winch technique again. With gusto and determination she was on it, ratcheting like the devil until it stopped dead with the jib flapping about wildly in a maddening cheeky dance.
I went up forward to find the source of the problem.
Some idiot had fitted fender baskets a couple of days ago, and guess what they were directly in the way of? - The jibsheets of course.
Fortunately the idiot had only fitted them with cable ties, so I was able to cut them free easily enough.
Clearly the bleedin' obvious is still catching me out.
I cannot believe I was so flipping daft. So concerned was I with an ergonomic place to put the baskets I utterly neglected to think about their impact.
I went up forward to find the source of the problem.
Some idiot had fitted fender baskets a couple of days ago, and guess what they were directly in the way of? - The jibsheets of course.
Fortunately the idiot had only fitted them with cable ties, so I was able to cut them free easily enough.
Clearly the bleedin' obvious is still catching me out.
I cannot believe I was so flipping daft. So concerned was I with an ergonomic place to put the baskets I utterly neglected to think about their impact.
Iain C
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Yikes! Again, each to their own but having been on board another boat when the gas pipe fractured deep within a locker there's absolutely no way I'd not do it. I know with a gas cooker at home it's a bit different, but IMHO marine gas pipe is thin stuff, prone to corrosion/hardening (although I'm no metallurgist) and probably getting knocked around by all sorts of stuff. This fracture was caused by nothing more than a fender banging into it in a locker, and the boat seemed FULL of gas within minutes...really scary. And that was tied to a pontoon, not smashing upwind with stuff moving around. When we pulled the old pipe out it broke again in a number of places and seemed really brittle...scary stuff as most of it looked fine to the casual observer.
I'm really not one for doing everything super properly...do I sail round the Solent with no chart on the table...yes...are some charts/flares out of date...yes...do I always wear a lifejacket...no...when was the last time I wrote in the log book...absolutely no idea...but do I want this to happen because a fender banged into a pipe and someone wanted to put the kettle on...erm, no...
Malabarista
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look. I come on here to get away from anything with the words 'assessment'. Or 'risk'. In the same sentence. it's how I spend my working hours. please refrain from this kind of abusive language or I am off to Sailing Anarchy.
solent clown
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hee hee
Daydream believer
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look. I come on here to get away from anything with the words 'assessment'. Or 'risk'. In the same sentence. it's how I spend my working hours. please refrain from this kind of abusive language or I am off to Sailing Anarchy.
Yes! agreed! but PRV (#87) was going to dye his hair & ride his motorcycle up an ice hill.
and--- if the truth was known-- he was probably planning to do it in the altogether ------ On a yachting form for g..ds sake
Can you imagine what that would do to some of the old boys hearts -- they would be pumping 10 to the dozen
Risk assessment definitely required
Better tell Karen to look the other way:ambivalence:
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solent clown
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Telling her to look ther other way and getting her to are two different things, especially with such a scene to behold. The mind boggles
Seajet
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Fender baskets ?
Gin Palace style fender baskets ?!
Please tell me you don't have these on your Trident, the cockpit lockers are big enough surely; or I'll feel forced to contact my TOA and Taste Police chums and have a whip-round for an Exocet.
Gin Palace style fender baskets ?!
Please tell me you don't have these on your Trident, the cockpit lockers are big enough surely; or I'll feel forced to contact my TOA and Taste Police chums and have a whip-round for an Exocet.
solent clown
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yes they were in the cockpit locker - and the original culprit of the seized morse control! I pout them up as I was going for the ww2 depth charge look.
prv
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Daydream believer
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I hang mine over the stern on the aft rail. It annoyed the wife & she said it makes the boat look like a charter boat - so i left them there:ambivalence:
RichardS
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I don't bring my fenders in ever .... so I'm really pleased that makes me not look like a charter boat. :encouragement:
Richard
solent clown
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Concerto
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I put them up as I was going for the ww2 depth charge look.
Are you for or against the Grey Funnel Line? Good job you left Portsmouth or you might have had a visit from the men dressed in dark blue or black with pea shooters.
solent clown
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I have a daughter joining them soon, bloody turncoat.
Wansworth
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Even if you know what your doing having the fenders over the side dragging in the waster gives the impression you are not of the right stuff and so any miraculous manouver on your part will be greeted with suprise and if it goes badly ,well you did warn them with your dangling fenders
solent clown
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I had better leave them dangling then
Wansworth
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I am writing a book with useful hints and tips like the above.
RupertW
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We are almost the same - bring them up onto the side deck but never untie them. After all, between one anchorage and another why create an extra task?
