What’s the worst

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Thing you have heard of someone doing to someone else’s boat? or that you have seen being done to a boat,
what makes you cringe, /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif
or want to say something to someone.

With me it is a shouting saga that some call berthing,
when the helm [normally a man] is shouting at the crew [mixed sex normally] that they have done something wrong or not done something!!!!!
This can mean not jumped a gap of 10ft to get line to shore or roped up the wrong side.
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Julie
 
When all the crew and the helmsman jump off to pull the boat in & end up looking like the boat'll drift away at any moment leaving no-one on board....it never quite gets that far, but it must have happened?

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swapping the diesel and fresh water caps on a charter boat ..

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I think the worse thing I have ever seen was something I hope I never see again!!

In Ocean Village last year, my wife and myself were doing our Day Skipper course; we had been doing mooring practice on the really big moorings on A pontoon. We tied up, engines off and were discussing what we had done and where we were going next. Anyway, being into my boats, I heard this wonderful throbbing sound of some real beefy engines behind us, so I went out the back to have a look. There was this very nice looking 45ish foot boat leaving its mooring, so I stood there to watch it leave.

Anyway, as the boat was coming towards me the gentleman who is helming the boat stands up on his flybridge, he stands there with his hands on his hips, a bit like Peter Pan, with his legs apart and straight, occasionally bending over and adjust his throttles levers. This all sounds fairly acceptable, only he is wearing a thong!!! Nothing else!! Just a thong. At this point I called my wife and instructor to come and have a look at this. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif As the boat passes us, we got a rear view of this 50 - 60 year old badly sun tanned man. The thong is nothing more than a piece of string around the back!!! He broke his Peter Pan stance to do another throttle adjustment at which point I just had to go inside and come to terms with this mentally scaring image I had just witnessed! My wife was crying with laughter, I have to say it was the most hideous, distressing sight I had ever seen in my short boating career.

If you are out there reading this, sorry, but cover yourself up man! Wear Shorts!!! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif


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Well now you've seen hlb, not a pretty sight! ;-)) If he looked like he was hung like a donkey then it was probably Harry.

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Apart from the odd RIB falling off it's trailer onto the slipway because the winch gave way (and no back-up rope fitted!!!) the most "cringeworthy" was in C'bourg marina about 20 years ago when a raggie backed out of his finger berth only to be T-boned by a very large motor boat. I can still hear the rending of GRP on a still, calm night.

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Telling the FIL to turn sharper to port as he was aproaching my boat to moor next to me then him not listening and his anchor putting a jolly nice dent in my boat.

Next time we moored together his anchor went down first!

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Last weekend, Easter, first time out for many or first decent weekend of the year for those just relaunched. Unfortunately we are not ready for sailing yet so were down hurrying through some winter jobs and getting her ready. We were on the wall under the harbour masters office which is also by the public slipway.

I sat watching with horror the antics of day boats and ribs. It was not how they were handled but the obvious lack of maintenance over the winter. Nearly every skipper of small private ribs struggled to get their engines going. One guy and his family, each time he put the engine in gear it stalled, he eventually started in gear at what saounded like full throttle and went out for the day, I was horrified, he only had one engine which was playing up yet he still took the family out.

Another rib, with a hand start engine and two guys on board could not start their motor, after an hour of trying eventually gave up and paddled back to shore to bring her back in. What if his engine had started at the 55th minute, would he have gone out?

There were a few diving ribs and the difference in condition is amazing, starts on first turn, twin motors, never going alone. Why do men risk their families by not maintaining their primary propulsion. I would have thought if you had your boat on the drive and intended to go out the following day you would give the engine 20 minutes run in a bin to make sure everything was working, check your batteries, check it slips into gear, idles etc. No, lets wait until we have launched and are drifting in the current.

I am not a nanny state fan, but was also amazed that these same families on low fast ribs decided that lifejackets were unecessary, it is so easy to be bounced out of a rib. Did they learn nothing from the devistating news of the previous week from just around the corner!

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Just remembered a really scary one....

a few years ago we used to launch from Bedhampton slipway near Havant (no need to pay then & a very wide slipway)

Summer weekends brought lots of local youth/knackered old speedboats/near misses with unbraked trailers running down , not attached to cars etc.

One group of lads had a fastish boat with an ageing but lively 80hp outboard, clearly no experience, but lots of confidence.

They launched w/o incident & after a few high speed circuits close to the slipway (very popular!) they headed off in the direction of the sewage outfall pipe...which is covered towards high tide, but not by much (it has a yellow warning triangle on a post at the end).

Needless to say, they knew nothing of such things & steered for the gap between the post & the shore- much shouting from us & others failed to alert them, & the boat went right over the pipe with a very loud bang & some startled body language from all on board.

Amazingly, the speed of the boat barely altered & they went off to terrorise Chi. harbour, returning some time later with a huge dent in the outboard gearbox casing, but no loss of oil.

Reckon if they had slowed down it would have been much more serious-lucky lads!.

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We were moored in Haslar.
A fifty footer pulled in opposite to us with an elderly man at the helm.
He got off the boat, so did his wife, neither of them bothered to secure the lines and off it went, luckerly just over to the next pontoon, could have been tragic,

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The most hair raising thing I saw was in Greece, in the Ionian a charter boat came into an achorage the guy faked the anchor chain down along the deck and then proceeded to instruct his 2 and 4 yo daughters to push the anchor he had balanced on the bow roller off when he yelled at them to do so after he had retaken the helm, his missus meantime was lying sunbathing .. the thought of one of their legs getting caught in the chain still makes me cringe!!

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On the Thames a few years ago on a sailpast, a Princess went a bit too close to the anchored 'turn boat'. One of the props on the Princess picked up the anchor chain and upon realising there was a problem, gave it a handful. The result was he wound in the other boat and put a nice big hole in it....the day before the chap was going on holiday on his boat.

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I have seen so many I am not sure which one's to choose, but here goes.
Watched a guy last year moored at ferry nab (Windermere) cleaning and polishing all day an obviously lovingly restored and truly beautifull wooden yacht about 28' Then late afternoon another raggie with I assume not much experience attempts to berth. (Now anyone on Windermere will tell you that when its windy berthing here can be somewhat difficult however this was a perfectly calm day) anyway it all goes pear shaped he and his wife are running around franticly and then with a crack I can here to this day and a loud "NOoooooo" from the poor guy off comes totally the boom thing or whatever you call them that sticks out about 3' over the bows. This poor guy was in tears as they exchanged details and I really felt sorry for him. So I hate people who bounce off other peoples boat. If only these people were to manouvre a little slower then a bounce would be all, instead of the inevitable damage caused by excess speed and panick.
Ian
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The concept of a "sailpast" is just hysterical. Do people really do "Sailpast's" on the Thames and salute the Commodore and all that stuff? No, surely not, I just refuse to believe it. If they do then that has to be a subject for Merton & Hislop on "Have I got News for you". Great comedy.

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Re: kwik-response YBW dictionary service

Thats the thing !
I am very much obliged to you.
Regards - Ian

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Here’s a scary one!/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif
The helms person who gets to close to some boats and applies full power and a turn at the same time. /forums/images/icons/frown.gifIf he is lucky he moves forward far enough to miss everything but not always, have a look at the back corners of some bathing platforms and you will see what I mean.
And the one that scares me, the Helms man who when they look down to check instruments, turns the wheel normally to the right. /forums/images/icons/frown.gif


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Julie
 
I think the best ones I ever saw were on the river, the wonderful hire boat community! LOL

We watched this guy belting towards a lock, which by the way had its gates closed. Anyway, being the sensible boater I am I held back to see what he was going to do. Once he reached the gates he turns hard to head for the bank to tie up. Now in a car, on the road, this would have made perfect sense, only, boats steer from the back! Much to this gentlemans horror, he ended up across the lock gates stuck against them. The lock keeper was standing there with his arms folded shaking his head. He asked for them to throw a rope to him, so they did! He threw it back and said, please can you tie it to the boat and throw me the other end???

Always made my day to watch these sort of events take place...... /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

I agree Julie, I think lots of people do that, and like my story above, I believe they are thinking like a car driver, accelerate and turn. Much better to use the handle bar action with two engines, if you have them..... /forums/images/icons/smile.gif



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Rivers and Holiday Peeps! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
I don't know if anyone has seen these folks on the Norfolk Broads, near the coast on the Yare or Bure doing thier best to get moored up outside a pub for the night,...Tides racing out to sea... and they spot a mooring space in between two boats as they are travelling down river with the tide,..well you know what I mean!

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