Why doesn't Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

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Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

After hearing the news this morning that Tony Bullimore has given up after only a few days into his latest disastrous project shouldn't he join the PM into retirement and give us all a rest from their latest embarrassments?
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

Do you think Tony Bullimore is the Ranulph Feinnes of the yachting world? Someone who'll only be remembered for his failures, despite his achievements?
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

A 50mm clevis pin in the rigging has failed, would you not reconsider if your rig was in danger of falling over?
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

You obviously haven't read If by Rudyard Kipling.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
 
What a cheap crack!

"Sarcasm if the lowest form of"...etc

Like most people who do something with their lives, Tony Bullimore has experienced his fair share of problems.

I know this man, he has slept under my roof and I can tell you that his determination and tenacity will always make him succeed (and survive) when lesser mortals would have given up long before.

Just bad luck and such a fitting failure can happen to any of us. He'll just go on and on unless Lalel finally chains him to the front gate!

Steve Cronin
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

[ QUOTE ]
You obviously haven't read If by Rudyard Kipling.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

[/ QUOTE ]

...then all well and good you're a man my son, but don't expect any credit.
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

I find it hard to understand why a 50mm clevis pin fails after all the preparation he must have made.
Before any long passages I have made in much lower tech boats than this every pin, block, rope, every stitch in every sail and in some cases even deadeyes and lanyards, have been thoroughly examined before the voyage began. Anything suspect was replaced and the passages made without gear failure which could not be put right at sea.
I worry that pushing yachts beyond their capabilities has led to near disaster too many times, giving our sport a bad name.
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

Just wondering, is this Clevis pin 50 mm in diameter or in length?

A 50 mm diameter clevis pin failing suddenly would be rather spectacular for sure. Serious loadings there!
 
All explained here

British yachtsman Tony Bullimore has had to call a halt to his latest solo circumnavigation attempt after a 50mm pin holding the forestay on his 102ft catamaran Doha lost a retaining bolt and begun to pull out.

"If the pin had pulled out completely, the rig would have fallen down and I would have been left adrift." Bullimore said early today, adding. "When I found it during a daylight check of the rig a few days ago, my heart almost stopped. With the rig under so much tension, there is no way of banging the pin back in place. In fact, it is the tension that has stopped it from falling out altogether."Bullimore spent several hours lashing the forestay to Doha's main beam to secure both the stay and the rogue pin, and having already chosen to head north east away from a low pressure system that was to sweep over his course on May 9, is now diverting to New Zealand to affect repairs.
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

If only careful preparation could prevent bits of boat from failing. On our transatlantic passages we reckoned on breaking something different every day. Sometimes it was something important, other days it was just a crewman.
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

Ahh... clearly Tony forgot to go to Lidl and buy a spare pin just in case.... at Lidl prices he could have afforded a spare.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Or perhaps he did buy it from Lidl? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

Quite so, and you were able to effect repairs, if only jury rig, even on a broken crew. I have been wondering why it always seems to happen to him, and others such as your goodself or RKJ can overcome these problems without outside help.
 
Re: Why doesn\'t Bullimore follow the other Tony into retirement?

Whan I was learning to sail, my teacher (who while remaining nameless was in a position to know) said to me "under no circumstances whatsoever, ever get on a boat with TB, even if the boat is alongside at the time!"
 
Re: All explained here

Glad he found the fault before he lost the rig, fair play to the man he is braver than most.
Why should he retire, if he feels he is up to the challenge, then good on you, go for it.
Better to have tried and failed ,etc etc.
 
Re: All explained here

Yes good luck to him, met him a few years ago, very down to earth and unassuming, has done more than most of us put together.
 
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