Today's Solent disasters.

[Daydream believer]

I don't bring my fenders in ever ..
Richard

Well you would not if you spent all the time tied to a pontoon would you :ambivalence::ambivalence:

 

[RichardS]

Well you would not if you spent all the time tied to a pontoon would you :ambivalence::ambivalence:

That's true DB ..... although dragging that damn pontoon the full length of the Adriatic from Marano to Corfu certainly slowed me down a bit.

Richard

 

[Daydream believer]

That's true DB ..... although dragging that damn pontoon the full length of the Adriatic from Marano to Corfu certainly slowed me down a bit.

Richard

Ah so you really do have a monohull & that other appendage is just useless junk :encouragement:

 

[Kelpie]

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?

You use fenders when at anchor??

 

[solent clown]

You use fenders when at anchor??

reminds me of next week's exercises on the Trident. Anchor practice. Fenders are essential for that, I am going to tie a couple to karen's LJ, so when she falls over with the weight of the chain and fails to let go, I can hook her back out wherever she ends up with a boat hook

 

[RichardS]

You use fenders when at anchor??

That's the time when you definitely need them. As soon as the wind gets up all hell breaks loose and the boats at anchor soon start a bit of argy-bargy. :ambivalence:

Richard

 

[dolabriform]

You use fenders when at anchor??

I knew I was doing something wrong when anchoring

 

[mattonthesea]

Thanks for this thread Solent Clown. I don't feel so bad about all the daft things I've done now I wish there was a 'like' button

A few years ago I organised five yachts chartered in Corfu. On the first night out we anchored off. One of our crew (lastname Jones) decided that he would take the dinghy out. Over the next few minutes the questions to him went something like this:

Have you put the valves in?
Are you pumping or deflating?
Have you tied the outboard on?
Have you turned the fuel on?
Have you turned the choke on?
Have you opened the fuel cock?
have you tied the dinghy on?

You'll have to row back (10 metres ish).

Would you like the oars over there?

Consequently, he is now known as Bridget!

It just happened that someone on another boat did something very similar but he got a rather public dressing down. Bridget is now one of our experienced skippers and about to go for YMO. The other chap we never saw again.


re checklistsI have an acronym checklist:

Going into port or out of: SAFELI Sails, Anchor, Fenders, Engine, Lines, Instruments (delete as necessary)

and a phrase we made up: Don't take Tommy past Cowes, Or...! - Date, time, tide, position, course, obstructions. It's a way of passage or pilot planning overviewing.

So long as it's fun

 

[westhinder]

Have you put the valves in?
Are you pumping or deflating?
Have you tied the outboard on?
Have you turned the fuel on?
Have you turned the choke on?
Have you opened the fuel cock?
have you tied the dinghy on?

You'll have to row back (10 metres ish).

Would you like the oars over there?

Isn't sailing endless fun?

 

[RupertW]

That's the time when you definitely need them. As soon as the wind gets up all hell breaks loose and the boats at anchor soon start a bit of argy-bargy. :ambivalence:

Richard

Haven't visited this thread for a few days but that's exactly it. When other anchored boats come down because they are on 1:1 scope (10m out because 10m depth obviously), or because their anchor is holding but they put an extra 30m down in pile on the sea floor at dusk to be safe even though it's dead calm, or even when a boat (genuinely) decides to anchor and reverse back to set their chain at right angles to all the other boats. Fenders save fretting and mean you can help them untangle themselves without first running round your decks putting them out.

 

[steve yates]

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

I like this

 

[Corribee72]

The last year has seen a whole load of mistakes, I dropped the sailmate outboard and stainless steel raising transom mount on my left arm pinning it to the stern of the boat, getting out of this situation is a lot more difficult than it sounds, I thought I was going to turn green and split my T-shirt! I was sailing with my Genoa only, in strong winds, my dad wanted to turn back so I said I would tell him when the time was right, turned my head and too late...... he had hard overed the tiller and the boat leaving an out of control Genoa to tame whilst keeping an eye on the water which seemed pretty damn close to me! We have almost grounded, crashed into the pontoon and taken the wrong line out of the harbour. I have flooded the tender outboard, meaning we had to paddle the inflatable tender in wind and tide to a deep water mooring in the middle of Portsmouth harbour, again not as easy as it sounds, especially when one of us had a dodgy shoulder. The only redemption I can get out of all of this is that its my first year sailing, I have overhauled the boat, changed the rigging and sailed in conditions that were, to be honest, beyond my inexperienced abilities and I wouldn't change any of it, I have learnt so much in a short time, I did dive in at the deep end and by some miracle kept afloat. In fact now I think about it, I would change one thing, I would have bought a boat instead of my kayaks years ago!

 

[Stemar]

Experience, n. 1. The name we give to our mistakes. 2. Something we acquire shortly after we need it

 

[solent clown]

this is definitely my favourite thread on here, not because I am the OP, but because it is both so reassuring and amusing to read we are not the only clowns on here.
Kerep the anecdotes coming