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Is Akira a new ploy from the Moderators to make us realise, whoever we've thought rude in the past there could always be worse ?! 
VOR yacht aground!!
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andymcp
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SCA are allowed 11 crew compared to the 8 permitted on the rest.
Resolution
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tudorsailor
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Respect!
My Dad had a Volvo P1800 - with overdrive!! On a family holiday when I was about 14yr, I was scrunched in the rear as we drove around Scandiavia for 3 weeks. Probably as comfortable a VOR 60 footer!
TS
Neil_Y
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Good point, it did cross my mind, but we've all been more amazed that the grounding could ever happen at all that this detail has been missed? I assume they would all have PLB's, but i would have still thought clipped on or life jacket or both at night. Seeing as RORC stipulate other safety requirements strictly, is this still a grey area for them? Haven't done any RORC offshore or ocean for a few (20) years so I don't know their current stance.
Mudisox
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My Dad had a Volvo P1800 - with overdrive!! On a family holiday when I was about 14yr, I was scrunched in the rear as we drove around Scandiavia for 3 weeks. Probably as comfortable a VOR 60 footer!
TS
In mine, back in the early 70s I managed Plymouth to Edinburgh in 4 hrs 45 mins. That's pretty fast, and I was skipper and Navigator. Oh, and just back from the first Whitbread trials.
I await more information until I start casting stones and opinions though.
flaming
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Wouter announced on Facebook this morning that he has been let go by Vestas.
https://www.facebook.com/WouterVerbraakSailing?fref=nf
https://www.facebook.com/WouterVerbraakSailing?fref=nf
dom
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I love this anecdote; it's from the man's own autobiography so possibly a bit burnished; still a great story though:
Ace test pilot Bob Hoover was taking thrill seekers for flights in his Shrike Commander, a small, piston powered, passenger plane. The passengers were known as “Hoover’s Heavers” — more often than not they were sick during the flight.
On this occasion the Heavers got more of a thrill than they paid for.
When the plane had climbed to 300 feet it lost all power and gravity started to pull it relentlessly back to earth. Bob Hoover managed to cut the air speed and safely crash landed the plane uphill onto the side of a ravine. The plane was severely damaged, but he and his two passengers walked away.
What caused the power failure?
This was the question spinning in Bob Hoover’s mind as he sat on the hillside waiting to be rescued. So he walked back to the plane and smelled the fuel.
Instead of gasoline it was jet fuel. A member of the ground crew had mistaken the piston engined plane for a turboprop and mis-fuelled it.
A simple mistake, as easy as putting petrol in your diesel engine, but rather more dramatic.
Of course there were consequences:
The accident lead to a simple process improvement, the development of the Hoover Nozzle, a filling mechanism that prevents the inadvertent filling of a gasoline powered plane with aviation fuel.
But there was a more remarkable outcome
When he returned to the air field Bob Hoover walked over to the man who had nearly caused his death and, according to the California Fullerton News-Tribune, said:
“There isn’t a man alive who hasn’t made a mistake. But I’m positive you’ll never make this mistake again. That’s why I want to make sure that you’re the only one to refuel my plane tomorrow. I won’t let anyone else on the field touch it.”