What do you do?

[powerskipper]

I had been instructing a student for his day skipper practical on a one to one due to weather postponing the course he had previously booked. It was on third day of the day skipper course, the day we do night hours. I try to make this day fairly relaxing as it is a long day for all involved. I will normally aim to be in the port we will be leaving from by later afternoon. I insist all have a hot meal before night hours.
We were tied to a buoy in a quiet inlet with the sun shine down; it was quiet warm and relaxing. I was going though collision regs, lights. Sound signals. [You know all the bits you need to know]. We were sitting on the bow in the sun, I went to put the kettle on, always think better with cup of tea in my hand, I came up from the salon to the sight of my student stripping down to under wear and jumping off the back of the boat.
Instant Panic,
Have I pushed him to hard?
What did I say wrong?
Is he that desperate to get away from me!
You know all the things that flow thought your mind at a time like that.
Well thank goodness NON of that, He just decided to take the tea break the way he wanted, This involved him swimming round the boat, It must have been a sight to see, him doing a graceful backstroke around the boat, telling me were all the scratches were, Me on deck waving my arms at any boat that came near us, and shouting to stay clear, the kettle whistling like only they can and then my HWMBOS phoned.
He was told that I had a real MOB and would phone him later. This when on for about 10 minutes. He then climbed back aboard and proceeded to strip off is wet clothes. I exit post hast down to the salon to hide and rescue the kettle. One strong cup of tea later normality returned and it was back to some chart work. And the passage plan we would need for getting back that night.
It mite be me but things like this seem to happen to me a lot!


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[longjohnsilver]

You're not related to BarryH are you PS, you do both seem to have the same malapropisms, maybe Shaw Taylor is another relative?

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[powerskipper]

Not that I know of! Is that a good thing or not?

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[longjohnsilver]

Probably best not to be associated with the village rabble, could get you into all sorts of trouble!

What time of year did this chap strip off for his swim? I tend to do silly things like that but only when it's warm!!

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[powerskipper]

About the end of August, He asked me to join him !! no cossey, my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

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[MainlySteam]

Either:

- he suddenly remembered the bit in <font color=red>big red capital letters</font color=red> in the course notes about women and rabbits being bad luck on a boat and so was abandoning ship, or

- he got so sick and tired of waiting for a cup of tea and bikkies he decided to swim ashore to get one, after wondering for several hours what all the instruction was about when you should really have been in the galley getting food and drink organised (whoops, nearly forgot the dishes after, too).

John

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[BrendanS]

He probably just wanted a bit of peace and quiet, having had his ear bent all day.

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[BarryH]

I thought it, you said it.........well, typed it.

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[MainlySteam]

Never going to play chicken with you Brendan, you are obviously a bigger risk taker than me!

John

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[BrendanS]

I'd love to have Kim's access to IP addresses, and see where some of these posts come from. I'm sure it would be illuminating

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[powerskipper]

I will have you know I am a very very kind instructor,
I never shout, I
will do the washing up,
BUT only on the first day of the course.
I have been told my voice is ok to listen to all day
[ I do think they sometimes tune out though]
I nearly always get a Hug from all my students at the end of a course.
If he wanted peace and Quiet he would not be there and anyway they have that at night After they have done there Homework!

<hr width=100% size=1>Julie , The one and only , the world could not cope with more, so I have been told!

 

[powerskipper]

Females on Boats are not bad luck, Why did they have figurheads on boats of women , the women were to clever to go on boats untill the males had worked out how to put good WC. and kitchens on them.

This guy would only let me in the galley to make tea . He loved cooking.

<hr width=100% size=1>Julie , The one and only , the world could not cope with more, so I have been told!

 

[powerskipper]

That would spoil the fun of guessing if its the water down the road or the one at the other end of the country.

<hr width=100% size=1>Julie , The one and only , the world could not cope with more, so I have been told!

 

[ChrisP]

"Why did they have figurheads on boats of women" to scare away the sea monsters.

ChrisP ;o))

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[Solitaire]

No, it was to keep the chaps amused when they were being keel hauled - large breasted women - took away the pain!!/forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[ChrisP]

Alternatively the sight of a woman there could be a solution to offshore constipation.

ChrisP ;o)))

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[powerskipper]

See MY Point, Big brave men need women on boats to save them from being eaten by the sea monsters. !!!

<hr width=100% size=1>Julie , The one and only , the world could not cope with more, so I have been told!

 

[ChrisP]

My moto.

Never run when you can walk.
Never walk when you can sit.
Never sit when you can lay down.
Never burn your own diesel when somebody elses is available.

&


When faced with 2 monsters hide behind the the one that frightens you the most.

ChrisP ;o)))



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[MainlySteam]

Why do they have woman figureheads on boats?

Well you know the real end of the old story about the prince kissing the frog really was nothing to do with them then all living happily ever after. The prince actually got mad at all the incessant nattering from his new princess and turned her back into a frog and made it a figurehead on the royal yacht (see a boaty story) to remind him and the rest of his realm of his folly. As time went by, after many years sailors forgot the guts of the story except the nattering bit, so the tradition slowly metamophised into one of having woman figureheads so that the sailors could always be reminded how nice it was to be away from home with a quiet one.

Above is an old figurehead from the tale of the Prince and the Frog days.

John

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[MainlySteam]

Why do they have woman figureheads on boats? PART II

Then many years went by and in the very beginning of the 20th Century archeologists uncovered the frog figurehead shown in PART I and slowly pieced together again the real story of the Prince, his princess and his figurehead. This created quite a stir and the International Maritime Organisation was just about to issue a decree that from then on all figureheads had to revert back to being frogs again when it was discovered that members of the froggie family actually were becoming seaman and at the same time the "Wind in the Willows" in 1908 documented one of the best known froggie family seafarers of the time, Mr Toad. Kenneth Grahame and many others then petitioned that the practice of figureheads should fade away as the use of woman ones represented a misunderstood story (don't they ever!) and it was an insult to frogs, who unlike you know whos, could actually drive boats. And, that is what happened the practice of figureheads died out.

But that is not quite the end of the story because a little later then came along Emily Pankhurst whose followers in 1912 smashed up Regent Street, Piccadilly, The Strand, etc demonstrating their fear of becoming figureheads again. Emily's seven thousand two hundred and twenty second commandment was then formulated being that women should learn how to drive a boat, then they would have the same protection as frogs and never become figureheads again. And they didn't become figureheads ever again, they in fact learnt to do all sorts of things as well as men could (except for one thing of course - shhhh mens secret) including to drive boats.

There you have it. Trust that answers the question.

Now if one wants to be disbelieving of all this we only have to point out that at least one member of this forum is actually a frog and can drive a boat and at least one member of the forum is a woman and can drive a boat. The truth is in the pudding as they say.

John

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