Nauti Fox
Well-Known Member
Worst bit of helming I\'ve seen for ages
We were on the way to the Southend Air Show Sunday morning and had reached Folly Point on the Medway and came across a dinghy race, the majority of whom were on a port tack. There were only a couple of racers to our starboard so we worked our way behind them, to my disbelief a sports boat towing a tender just held their course and the second to last yacht had to turn away as the mobo, which was overtaking, came within touching distance, the helm of the sports boat was on the right, so there was no way they couldn't have seen the yacht.
To make matters worse the tender, which was on a long tow then got caught on the yacht.
The yacht crew, justifiably had a go at the mobo which then gave the yacht crew abuse, and also the race safety boat.
No wonder we get slagged off, I actually felt ashamed, and just couldn't look any more, and I know thats all he'll remember about mobo's, can't really blame him either.
We were on the way to the Southend Air Show Sunday morning and had reached Folly Point on the Medway and came across a dinghy race, the majority of whom were on a port tack. There were only a couple of racers to our starboard so we worked our way behind them, to my disbelief a sports boat towing a tender just held their course and the second to last yacht had to turn away as the mobo, which was overtaking, came within touching distance, the helm of the sports boat was on the right, so there was no way they couldn't have seen the yacht.
To make matters worse the tender, which was on a long tow then got caught on the yacht.
The yacht crew, justifiably had a go at the mobo which then gave the yacht crew abuse, and also the race safety boat.
No wonder we get slagged off, I actually felt ashamed, and just couldn't look any more, and I know thats all he'll remember about mobo's, can't really blame him either.
