What Now Skipper?
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LadyInBed
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Trying hard to adopt a MoBo mind set -
Get her up on the plane to reduce draft and go for it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Get her up on the plane to reduce draft and go for it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
FullCircle
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If only we had the luxury of 1.5m all the time!!!
jimi
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Open the throttles up and go in at top speed after checking the air draught
flaming
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I've never come across a bar that would produce a wave capable of dropping you 1.5m onto the putty! Not without a decent onshore gale anyway!
Offshore force 4!? Oh no, run for the hills!
Offshore force 4!? Oh no, run for the hills!
jimi
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sounds like time for a visit to the Mobo forum for a bit of friendly pisstake!
bilbobaggins
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I'd batten down the drinks cupboard, clip-on everything from twin blonde underclad floozies to compulsory white poodle, point the pointy bit at the narrow watery bit and engage the Impulse Drive. Both of them. A lot.
The offshore wind will have progressively less effect on the 'nasty sea' surface as the good ship MBM proceeds towards the notorious bar, and although 1.5m/60 inches of briny ought to be good enuff for most porpoises, any planting of the anti-foul into the sand will soon be dealt with by a rising tide and a twin-turbo engine installation. As in all things 'mobo-ish', any scrapes, dings and dents can be sorted out by those nice friendly boatyard fellows before next weekend.
Once into safe waters and secured vaguely by the blue ropes in the cupboard to those several metal sticky-up thingies on the floating dock-decking, it would be entirely appropriate to go up the long plank-thingy and find a better class of bar in which to restore one's equilibrium with a pink gin or three. That 'notorious' one, with all those rough raggy sailors, is just so 'declasse'......
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The offshore wind will have progressively less effect on the 'nasty sea' surface as the good ship MBM proceeds towards the notorious bar, and although 1.5m/60 inches of briny ought to be good enuff for most porpoises, any planting of the anti-foul into the sand will soon be dealt with by a rising tide and a twin-turbo engine installation. As in all things 'mobo-ish', any scrapes, dings and dents can be sorted out by those nice friendly boatyard fellows before next weekend.
Once into safe waters and secured vaguely by the blue ropes in the cupboard to those several metal sticky-up thingies on the floating dock-decking, it would be entirely appropriate to go up the long plank-thingy and find a better class of bar in which to restore one's equilibrium with a pink gin or three. That 'notorious' one, with all those rough raggy sailors, is just so 'declasse'......
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StugeronSteve
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Go for it. If there's a chance of a drink in a notorious bar then every minute counts!
fireball
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At top speed I guess it will be quite draughty ....
dom
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Just drive in - 1.5m is heaps for a mobo! - and cancel subscription to "Motor Boats and Yachting"
fireball
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So the mobo won't be "constrained by draft" then! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
at 1.5m he could get out and walk!
at 1.5m he could get out and walk!
flaming
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1.5 under the keel.
so yeah, probably could get out of the average soap dish and walk!
so yeah, probably could get out of the average soap dish and walk!
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Ahem.
Cough.
Splutter.
The correct course of action is to order the immediate removal of high heels, refasten the upper blazer buttons, warn the passengers to hold on to their drinks, announce that we are "going for it", powering past the bobbing yachts at 22kts in a plume of spray.
Wot are you lot on? Can I have some?
dv.
Cough.
Splutter.
The correct course of action is to order the immediate removal of high heels, refasten the upper blazer buttons, warn the passengers to hold on to their drinks, announce that we are "going for it", powering past the bobbing yachts at 22kts in a plume of spray.
Wot are you lot on? Can I have some?
dv.
fireball
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Wot are you lot on? Can I have some?
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Dunno if you want any ... it generally results in quite a bit of wind and a significant heel (height is optional /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), a bit of bobbing, oh and significantly less spray (especially the ozone friendly CFC free sprays).
Wot are you lot on? Can I have some?
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Dunno if you want any ... it generally results in quite a bit of wind and a significant heel (height is optional /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), a bit of bobbing, oh and significantly less spray (especially the ozone friendly CFC free sprays).
hlb
RIP
To be serious for a minute. I've answered him.
It's unanswerable, since we are not told what time it is now. Or how far we are away. We are also not told the harbour, which as we had a berth there, we would have local knowledge.
Haydn
It's unanswerable, since we are not told what time it is now. Or how far we are away. We are also not told the harbour, which as we had a berth there, we would have local knowledge.
Haydn
fireball
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Perhaps them there at IPC towers - MBY section need a kick in the right direction .... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
flaming
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To be serious for a minute. I've answered him.
It's unanswerable, since we are not told what time it is now. Or how far we are away. We are also not told the harbour, which as we had a berth there, we would have local knowledge.
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With a massive 1.5m under the keel and a pleasant F4 blowing off the land I'm not sure that knowing any of these details would make any difference to my answer of "er, just drive in....!?"
And I'm not entirely sure that the MBM team understand why waves form. Just cos you have wind over tide doesn't do away with the fact that the fetch is still going to be tiny, and the waves little more than ripples.
To be serious for a minute. I've answered him.
It's unanswerable, since we are not told what time it is now. Or how far we are away. We are also not told the harbour, which as we had a berth there, we would have local knowledge.
Haydn
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With a massive 1.5m under the keel and a pleasant F4 blowing off the land I'm not sure that knowing any of these details would make any difference to my answer of "er, just drive in....!?"
And I'm not entirely sure that the MBM team understand why waves form. Just cos you have wind over tide doesn't do away with the fact that the fetch is still going to be tiny, and the waves little more than ripples.
bilbobaggins
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M'dear Paul Ashton,
It would appear that your earnest attempt to raise the seamanship game of some of your readers has been dealt a low-blow or three by those nasty raggie types. One would gently counsel you not to go wandering into 'Scuttlebut' without strong nerves or thick skin! Or both....
Regards,
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Rule one of working on MBY is never read Scuttlebutt unless you can possibly help it! Thick skins and strong nerves are developed over time, so I guess they won't hurt too much.
Best wishes
Paul
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So that's OK, then.
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M'dear Paul Ashton,
It would appear that your earnest attempt to raise the seamanship game of some of your readers has been dealt a low-blow or three by those nasty raggie types. One would gently counsel you not to go wandering into 'Scuttlebut' without strong nerves or thick skin! Or both....
Regards,
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Rule one of working on MBY is never read Scuttlebutt unless you can possibly help it! Thick skins and strong nerves are developed over time, so I guess they won't hurt too much.
Best wishes
Paul
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So that's OK, then.
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Major Catastrophe
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I have solved it.
I would put on my windscreen wiper to deal with the 'nasty sea'.
Do I win a prize?
I would put on my windscreen wiper to deal with the 'nasty sea'.
Do I win a prize?
hlb
RIP
But the wind was not blowing off the land, was it. It was blowing onshore and getting bigger..
I know what I would do. But thats not the point. Am I up the Bristol channel, with maybe 12 metres under me, if I go now. Or do I arrive at low tide with only a metre. None of this is in the question.
Upps, your right, it's blowing off shore. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Still there is not enough info in the question anyway.
But like others. It sounds like a none problem, which ever way.
I know what I would do. But thats not the point. Am I up the Bristol channel, with maybe 12 metres under me, if I go now. Or do I arrive at low tide with only a metre. None of this is in the question.
Upps, your right, it's blowing off shore. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Still there is not enough info in the question anyway.
But like others. It sounds like a none problem, which ever way.