Washboards up - when sailing

[Sgeir]

Just wondering how often other people feel obliged to fit their washboards while sailing.

 

[ParaHandy]

what are they? I try and get my smalls washed beforehand. erm .. would most not think twice aboot hinging oot yer durty waaashing ...

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Very infrequently.... only when there's a big sea running, especially if cross or with wave action and sometimes at night when peeps are trying to sleep...

 

[Twister_Ken]

Just in nasty weather/rain/overfalls

Got a set of acrylic washboards for when I want to be downstairs, but still have some daylight.

 

[snowleopard]

No, but I do shut the patio doors if F7 or above from astern.

 

[Sgeir]

I hear you're a dab hand at the skiffle though:

 

[machurley22]

Would definitely recommend this if arriving 2 hours after slack water at Rathlin.

For me though;

1. Raining with a following breeze

2. Ooerr - aren't those waves big!

3. Lying ahull in anything above F10 /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Talbot]

dont have washboards, like the interior of my vessel to be light and airy.

 

[Lakesailor]

Pleased to see you're joining the Real-Speak Campaign and ditching all those out-dated nautical terms. I have been advocating this for ages but everytime I mention it people start whining on about futtocks and top royals etc.

Yours, admiringly.......

 

[Wansworth]

BUTTOCK LINES,KNEES,BREAST HOOKS.......

 

[Twister_Ken]

Avast behind and heave to your marlin spikes you son of baggywrinkled garboard sponsons.

 

[bbg]

Sometimes for comfort in rainy weather esp. with wind from astern. Only time we have fitted them for safety was racing J24s in San Francisco - J24s have a nasty habit of downflooding through cockpit lockers or main hatch in a bad broach.

 

[Poignard]

Never! I just close the doors.

 

[FullCircle]

Having taken one in over the back on a previous boat, it made the fags on the chart table hard to light.

Feeling posh right now, as have now got washboards that are both clipped together and to the boat in bad weather, just like RORC says, even though I am not a racy person, oh no Sir.

Used lifejacket webbing and clips, with stainless trap plates and little bolts through. Smug git.

 

[BobnLesley]

Thank you machurley22 - I'd always believed that I was the only person to have done that in Rathlin Sound. Though I'm not certain that I should actually believe you; on the basis that when we tried it, my wife (who's always right) said "Only you could be so f*'%?n$ stupid!"

 

[Sgeir]

Slough na Morra

Hmmm. HH MacHurley is referring to a cruise last year where I couldn't be bothered waiting for the tides at Kintyre. I think we went backwards for a while. For about four hours. However our entrance into Rathlin Sound was the very apogee of magnificent timing.

Well it was, compared with an earlier occasion; it was springs, about 18kts SW wind, and we had full sail up. I'd spent a lot time with with the tide tables, so was fairly confident I wouldn't screw it up (again).

We got through OK, south of Rue Point, and then hit two walls of standing water, each about a metre high. The second spun us through 360 degrees in a second or so. Yet the water was flat calm only after only a couple of cables.

Wouldn't want to be in it when it really does cut up rough.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"Used lifejacket webbing and clips, with stainless trap plates and little bolts through. Smug git."

What's wrong with cornflake packets and Pritt Stick. If it works for Blue Peter...

 

[totopalm]

Quote: Having taken one in over the back!!!!
Sometimes i worry about you Raggy people

 

[sailorman]

Not nearly as bad as "A Quick One Up the Butt" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

( Pin Mill ) that is /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[LadyInBed]

In the rain and on cold nights, to stop the draft, when I am sat inside watching the sea go by /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif