What now, Skipper?

[tcm]

\"tricky situations you didn\'t forsee\"

You're being very charitable to "skip". This was a bit of screwup, and the situation was easily forseeable.

Sitting at anchorage tied up to another boat is very iffy for a start, and many just wouldn't tie up to another boat if there was the slightest chance of rigging get caught - in other words, pretty much - people wouldn't *ever* do it in a sailing boat except in flat calm during daylight when neighbouring boat is a powerboat hence no such risk exists.

But this isn't all that you (oops, sorry, i mean "skip") did - the crew proceeded to have plenty of alcohol, not find a weather forecast, not stand watch, and not really have much of a clue about how to get out if the place if it became really untenable-like 24 knots of wind instead of only 14.

Your sarcasm isn't really warranted - it surely isn't the mark of a good skipper that he or she knows and regularly uses a million clever-clever ways out of a never-ending sequence of unforseen situations. Better surely to be like the others who had departed and simply didn't have that problem. The best and most plausible answer to this is - "we wouldn't have been there".

All imho.

 

[DeeGee]

Re: \"tricky situations you didn\'t forsee\"

Your comments have become personal, offensive, distorted and non-factual. In particular, no alcohol taken at the time or for at least 72hrs before - that is purely your unpleasant imagination.

 

[tcm]

Hm, make sure skipper doesn\'t lose his rag

Hm, well, i spose being told that your actions were ill-advised might easily be offensive. But it doesn't mean they aren't true.

I stand corrected re alcohol - although "Skip flakes out before the party is over, as he is knackered from a soiree the night before. " ...might reasonably indicate otherwise.

No matter. It is known by lots of people with lots less than 50 years experience (as you PM valiantly claims as the primary reason why nobody should dar naysay your prior decisons) that rafting up with a sailing boat to another sailing boat is not advisable as there is not much that can be done with jammed rigs except call out the crane company. You screwed up. To everyone else - be more cautious about rafting in this way. I imagine they are - it is a very very rare sight in uk waters.

Hey- it's lovely for you to think this is a complex yottie conundrum, but in fact it was a screwup. No need to take out on me - I've screwed up, no question. But I didn't come on the bb and pretend otherwise, nor especially by writing in the third person to make it sound all classicaly complicated. It wasn't. The lesson is "don't raft up to other sailing boats overnight except in g'teed calm water of a marina", duh, and many hereabouts would never ever attempt the same as you did.

Jeez.