jimi
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Who\'s sank a boat?
Who's sank their boat? I sank a GP14 once by stepping in it and my feet went through the floor.
Who's sank their boat? I sank a GP14 once by stepping in it and my feet went through the floor.
Who's sank a boat?
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Saguday
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
We tried to sink a boat - 8 of us blokes in my GP14 in a race against 7 girlies in an Enterprise - but we neither capsized nor sank in spite of it all. The girlies "won" but they cheated by not sailing the course. Gybing the kite remains an abiding and most achingly funny memory, but I think you had to be there...
We tried to sink a boat - 8 of us blokes in my GP14 in a race against 7 girlies in an Enterprise - but we neither capsized nor sank in spite of it all. The girlies "won" but they cheated by not sailing the course. Gybing the kite remains an abiding and most achingly funny memory, but I think you had to be there...
fireball
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
I deliberately sank my mirror - the race week officers insisted as it didn't have a certificate of buoyancy from the CA ... took a heck of a lot to sink it!!
I've sunk another boat - took a huge chunk out of the starboard quarter of a Fireball once ... he stopped dead in front of my 420 and I couldn't avoid him ... oops! No hard feelings as he was getting a new boat anyway! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I deliberately sank my mirror - the race week officers insisted as it didn't have a certificate of buoyancy from the CA ... took a heck of a lot to sink it!!
I've sunk another boat - took a huge chunk out of the starboard quarter of a Fireball once ... he stopped dead in front of my 420 and I couldn't avoid him ... oops! No hard feelings as he was getting a new boat anyway! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
iangrant
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
sank a dinghy - really only a toy one, rowed out to the boat on chain mooring at HW with the help of swmbo headlights.
First boat i'd owned with nav lights (16' seasafe dandy) so was taking a battery between my legs to try out the lights in the dark.
Rowed out and as i approached the stern hit the prop of the seagull outboard, went down like a baloon thankfully only in three feet of water so saved the scrapyard battery, lights worked but had to swim/wade back to the shore where shmbo was too hysterical with laughter to drive home.
Ian
sank a dinghy - really only a toy one, rowed out to the boat on chain mooring at HW with the help of swmbo headlights.
First boat i'd owned with nav lights (16' seasafe dandy) so was taking a battery between my legs to try out the lights in the dark.
Rowed out and as i approached the stern hit the prop of the seagull outboard, went down like a baloon thankfully only in three feet of water so saved the scrapyard battery, lights worked but had to swim/wade back to the shore where shmbo was too hysterical with laughter to drive home.
Ian
Twister_Ken
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Not quite, but I once sailed Topper without checking whether the bung was in place. I made it back to the beach with about 5mm of freeboard.
Not quite, but I once sailed Topper without checking whether the bung was in place. I made it back to the beach with about 5mm of freeboard.
oughtoc
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
When learning to sail in a bosun, I went through the first three planks of the Merlin I t-boned in error. Heavy things, those bosuns.
When learning to sail in a bosun, I went through the first three planks of the Merlin I t-boned in error. Heavy things, those bosuns.
Strathglass
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Been racing on the Forth when one of the E boats just in front of us in the same race sank. He had not fitted his washboards and went down in less than one minute. It was blowing like stink at the time.
A few years ago come back from holiday and when I looked at my mooring I could not see my open wood 1 rater (swamped by the waves). Then the tide went out I could see most of the mast. She was soon lifted using drums and the tide. After that enforced water saturation every plank expanded and she was drier than ever before.
Been racing on the Forth when one of the E boats just in front of us in the same race sank. He had not fitted his washboards and went down in less than one minute. It was blowing like stink at the time.
A few years ago come back from holiday and when I looked at my mooring I could not see my open wood 1 rater (swamped by the waves). Then the tide went out I could see most of the mast. She was soon lifted using drums and the tide. After that enforced water saturation every plank expanded and she was drier than ever before.
maybh1
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Our beloved Hardy 18 sank on her mooring in Poole during the 1987 storm. She was dragged down by the waves breaking over her stern.
After receiving a call from the harbourmaster the morning after the storm, my husband sent me down to the marina to assess the damage and rescue what I could as he was away. It just about broke my heart when I saw her
However, every cloud has a silver lining - six months later she was back in the water as good as the day she was brought, everything new including the outboard
Our beloved Hardy 18 sank on her mooring in Poole during the 1987 storm. She was dragged down by the waves breaking over her stern.
After receiving a call from the harbourmaster the morning after the storm, my husband sent me down to the marina to assess the damage and rescue what I could as he was away. It just about broke my heart when I saw her
However, every cloud has a silver lining - six months later she was back in the water as good as the day she was brought, everything new including the outboard
albineer
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Re: It wasn\'t me who sank her - honest!
I was crewing on a small yacht one spring weekend a long time ago - before the days of GPS on passage from the Crouch to Southampton. The skipper said there was enough water to go over the Barrow Sands. He hadn't fitted an echo sounder didn't have a hand lead and there wasn't. The boat broke up and four of us took to the two man rubber dinghy. We were picked up by a German coaster a few hours later. I've never been so cold. The captain was charming. He said it could happen to anyone. In the local newspaper report our skipper said "She was a good boat I built her myself" !!!
I was crewing on a small yacht one spring weekend a long time ago - before the days of GPS on passage from the Crouch to Southampton. The skipper said there was enough water to go over the Barrow Sands. He hadn't fitted an echo sounder didn't have a hand lead and there wasn't. The boat broke up and four of us took to the two man rubber dinghy. We were picked up by a German coaster a few hours later. I've never been so cold. The captain was charming. He said it could happen to anyone. In the local newspaper report our skipper said "She was a good boat I built her myself" !!!
sailbadthesinner
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
i tried on a GP14 one hot day in crosby marina back in the early 80s
but we could not
i did kill a mirror by putting a huge deep centreboard in it. we had to stand up to feed it in
eventually the casing gave way so it was a knackered
but we did have fun out pointing alot of stuff at the top of the straits.
i tried on a GP14 one hot day in crosby marina back in the early 80s
but we could not
i did kill a mirror by putting a huge deep centreboard in it. we had to stand up to feed it in
eventually the casing gave way so it was a knackered
but we did have fun out pointing alot of stuff at the top of the straits.
Fergus
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Nearly sank in entrance to Chbg harbour this summer - secondary (disconnected) bilge pump started siphoning (well, if you call 2ft of water over the cabin sole sinking!)
Nearly sank in entrance to Chbg harbour this summer - secondary (disconnected) bilge pump started siphoning (well, if you call 2ft of water over the cabin sole sinking!)
ValleyForge
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
My 'Victory' model of Niarchos's Vosper triple screw Mercury sank in rough water on Windermere, circa 1962. Probably still down there somewhere.
My 'Victory' model of Niarchos's Vosper triple screw Mercury sank in rough water on Windermere, circa 1962. Probably still down there somewhere.
Cutter
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
tcm?
tcm?
sighmoon
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Very nearly sank a 505. We capsized and bubbles started coming out of the buoyancy tank.
Very nearly sank a 505. We capsized and bubbles started coming out of the buoyancy tank.
Oliveoyl
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Some 20 years ago we inherited an ageing Oppy. Son n° 1 spent all summer painting, varnishing, lord knows what - cost a fortune in materials. But he kind of forgot about waterprooofing nail holes, so on launch day, it slowly filled up on the local lake, and sank, in 50 cm of water, with 2 youngest kids in. Didn't even manage to take photos, we were laughing so much.
Some 20 years ago we inherited an ageing Oppy. Son n° 1 spent all summer painting, varnishing, lord knows what - cost a fortune in materials. But he kind of forgot about waterprooofing nail holes, so on launch day, it slowly filled up on the local lake, and sank, in 50 cm of water, with 2 youngest kids in. Didn't even manage to take photos, we were laughing so much.
boguing
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
I admit to being a co-skipper of a scale model of a 'Canadian Laker' (very long and thin ship that was the biggest thing that would fit in the sea locks) that we sank on Chingford Reservoir. It had a free flooding steering compartment, separated from the main hull by a Titanic style partial bulkhead. (We never learn, do we?).
From memory it was about 20 feet long, weighed several tons, and in today's money the client must have paid us well North of £300k to find out if it would turn in a breeze.
I admit to being a co-skipper of a scale model of a 'Canadian Laker' (very long and thin ship that was the biggest thing that would fit in the sea locks) that we sank on Chingford Reservoir. It had a free flooding steering compartment, separated from the main hull by a Titanic style partial bulkhead. (We never learn, do we?).
From memory it was about 20 feet long, weighed several tons, and in today's money the client must have paid us well North of £300k to find out if it would turn in a breeze.
mikehibb
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
My father did his best to try and sink an inflatable, whilst still fully inflated. It had a strap on outboad transom rated for 1.5hp or so, he thought that the 4.5hp from our rigid would make it go a little bit faster, well the rear end went faster, quite a bit faster than the front as it buckled in the middle and flooded. ( this was a model before slatted/airdecks/airkeels etc)
My father did his best to try and sink an inflatable, whilst still fully inflated. It had a strap on outboad transom rated for 1.5hp or so, he thought that the 4.5hp from our rigid would make it go a little bit faster, well the rear end went faster, quite a bit faster than the front as it buckled in the middle and flooded. ( this was a model before slatted/airdecks/airkeels etc)
Rabbie
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Me too!
Me too!
dunedin
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Not yet !
But continuiing the dinghy theme, like Jimi been on GP14 when skipper jumped in and went through floor (shortest race ever).
Also a mirror with two neat elbow sized holes either side of the centreboard base when large crew slipped off board, and brother got leg stuck through side of catamaran when boat hit wave too hard and crashed forward off trapeze.
Not yet !
But continuiing the dinghy theme, like Jimi been on GP14 when skipper jumped in and went through floor (shortest race ever).
Also a mirror with two neat elbow sized holes either side of the centreboard base when large crew slipped off board, and brother got leg stuck through side of catamaran when boat hit wave too hard and crashed forward off trapeze.
Twister_Ken
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Re: Who\'s sank a boat?
Mike,
I've got this mental picture of the old fella watching the bow of his rubadub disappear in front of his eyes, and I can't stop chuckling!
Mike,
I've got this mental picture of the old fella watching the bow of his rubadub disappear in front of his eyes, and I can't stop chuckling!
