Weymouth Rowing Ferry - Death Wish?

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Wait a minute!!!!

Oh! & while we are on about it, how can any comment be made about 'lets keep the old traditions' etc. etc. whilst bashing away on 1000's of pounds worth of computer equipment?

I have sent you a suitable reply in semaphore.

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[poter]

Re: Wait a minute!!!!

he he

yus, SWMBO won't let me go & play with boatee flappy thing!

poter.

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[steve_cronin]

I wonder......

... what the ferry's PL insurers have to say about his MO?

err, he DOES HAVE Public Liability insurance doesn't he?

Steve Cronin

Confesses to not having read all other 17 replies in full

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[poter]

Cemofore

Ken,

Whats that then?


Did you know that 34 years ago the Yanks put a man on the moon?

poter


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[poter]

Re: I wonder......

EXACTLY

ta

poter

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[steve_cronin]

Re: Man on the moon

"Allegedly!"

Steve Cronin

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[Twister_Ken]

Did you know

that once upon a time it was possible to fly across the Atlantic faster than the speed of sound? Incredible, isn't it?

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[poter]

Re: Did you know

well you still can ...
just not commercially!



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[poter]

Re: Man on the moon

"Allegedly!"
Hmmm! A subscriber to the hollywood theory. cause as seaman you spotted the flag blowin the wrong way?

And I thought for a mo. there you were the cavalry?

ta

poter.



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[poter]

Re: Man on the moon

Anyway back to this bleedin rowing bloke........
Whats the consensus is he goin or not?

poter

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[steve_cronin]

Nah!!

... it's just that since it appears to be

"Stir it" Season, who am I to swim against the tide?

Had it been a fake they'd surely have done a second take on "One step for man.." when it was supposed to be "One step for A man..."


I love web forums, they beat their predecessor, Citizens' Band, into a cocked hat!

Steve Cronin

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[poter]

Thats not fair!

Hmmpff *"£$%^*

thats It.

i'm off to the boat...even if there is no wind.

GOODBYE

poter.

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[stephenmartin]

Re: \'scuse I

you crash into him and see what his lawyers say....way too fast....inadequate lookout....Quo est demonstratum....

Steve

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[ianwright]

Re: Did you know

,,,,, and in those same days there were yachtsmen who could navigate without batteries, talk to each other by morse code, understand what flags were for and had no need to curse jet-skii.
There were Giants in the land in those days and we were blessed.

IanW

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[global_odyssey]

I need to vindicate myself further!

We were keeping a good lookout (my wife) we even knew to look out for a ferry.
The trouble is we had expected a proper ferry not a small rowing boat! It didn't exactly "come out of nowhere" either. We'd seen it at the edge of the channel not realising it was "the ferry" and assumed it might stay there especially as it was stationary at first. It was only when it 'went for it' unannounced that it became a problem for us (innocently making our prudent progress up the main channel).
He might as well have worn a blind-fold!
Anyway, if I'd hit him, my defense might have focussed on Corporate recklessness - I didn't see any lifejackets, or safety equipment on that ferry!
Anyway we ended up rafted 7 or 8-out - almost didn't even need a ferry at all - I could almost have jumped across the last bit!

(All imho)

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[LadyInBed]

Re: Right of way Ferry

No all embracing rule, but he hasn’t got the speed or ability to easily manoeuvre out of the way of a motor boat bearing down on him, so under rule 18 the row boat is “A vessel restricted in ability to manoeuvre”.

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[duncan]

Re: Right of way Ferry

I thought that the application o that rule is restricted to craft that have engines as their motive power?

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[peterb]

Re: Right of way Ferry

Rule 3(g) defines restricted in ability to maoeuvre, but doesn't mention anything about power.

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[duncan]

Re: Right of way Ferry

you got there before I could edit!
I was confusing it with definition (h) a vessel constrained by her draft which can only aply to a powered vessel.
sorry!

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[ponapay]

i thought it

was Quod erat demonstrandum for the past tense.

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