Yacht on rocks

freespiritdavid

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Interesting name of boat........... Get Knotted, especially when on the radio to the coastguard ........
Name of vessel
Get Knotted.
Could not believe it when he was on the radio to CG a few weeks ago after ditching a can of fuel overboard some where between Salcombe and Plymouth, and was navigating by Google maps. I am not surprised of this outcome.
 
It’s a GK so all names were started with the letters, we have owned two - names of boats we’ve seen have been Goshawk, GinnToniK, etc etc
 
RupertW said:
It’s a GK so all names were started with the letters, we have owned two - names of boats we’ve seen have been Goshawk, GinnToniK, etc etc
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I did know that link, it was the how not to use a radio scenario and use of name which could be misinterpreted. Plus using Google maps for navigation only.
Even the CG did have reservations about his ability to navigate only using Google maps.
 
freespiritdavid said:
Even the CG did have reservations about his ability to navigate only using Google maps.
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Some years ago I was invited by a then-prominent multihull racer to crew and navigate his new Danish trimaran from the Solent up to Oban, for the Scottish Islands Peaks Race. He had delivered to me his folio-sleeve of charts which, it emerged on inspection, were still sodden with seawater from the previous year, were just pulp, and unusable. It wasn't mentioned, but I guessed he expected I'd buy a set of new ones, for when I 'joined ship' he asked if I'd brought adequate charts for the trip. "Of course I have," I responded, brandishing my navbag - and he asked no more.

All the way, I used simply a copy of 'NP109 - NW Europe Standard Nautical Charts and Leisure Products Catalogue', produced from my navbag when wanted to plot my fixes and calculate all the nav info needed, then put away again. Now, I knew well every sector of the trip and was quite content using the lat/long grid on the Hydrographic Office chartlets of South West England and the Irish Sea. Old Mike, a usually generous soul, asked me several times if I was content with that and, of course, I answered yes.

His suppressed but growing concern peaked as we approached the narrow and turbulent top end of the Sound of Luing, when he flapped his hands in agitation, asking if the charts I had were quite adequate for where we were imminently headed. "Oh, yes, Mike. I'm perfectly happy. This'll do fine. It's this years, and bang up to date...." I breezed.

He didn't dare ask about his sodden, unusable charts, for he knew well his tightwad ploy had failed.

We moored a few hours later off the club at Oban, and several others already there came on board to admire Mike's new boat and, of course, they cast an eye over the 'NP Chart Catalogue' sat prominently on the chart table, with our trail of fixes all the way from the Solent.

Later, in the pub, they asked me obliquely if I had indeed used just that. "Och, aye," I replied, and told them the story of old Mike's reticence with the wallet. "But what I didn't tell Mike was that I had a brand new 'BA 2326 - Loch Crinan To The Firth of Lorne' hidden in my crewbag and well-studied, which covered the narrow, dodgy swirly bits. I just let him sweat....."
 
zoidberg said:
...what I didn't tell Mike was that I had a brand new 'BA 2326 - Loch Crinan To The Firth of Lorne' hidden in my crewbag and well-studied, which covered the narrow, dodgy swirly bits. I just let him sweat....."
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:biggrin-new::biggrin-new::biggrin-new: Brilliant.
 
Very sad end to my old boat Get Knotted. Evidently they tried to tow her off the rocks yesterday afternoon but she sank. Guess the hull had been holed. I owned her 1982 to 1992 and we used to race at Abersoch and in some of the ISORA races. No sprayhood and no inboard enfine in early days we were clearly mad!
 
brainstorm said:
Very sad end to my old boat Get Knotted. Evidently they tried to tow her off the rocks yesterday afternoon but she sank. Guess the hull had been holed. I owned her 1982 to 1992 and we used to race at Abersoch and in some of the ISORA races. No sprayhood and no inboard enfine in early days we were clearly mad!
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Yes very sad. I used to crew occasionally on Ginger Knut and remember Get Knotted (and Giddy Kipper also - I've forgotten the rest of the names at Abersoch) very well. It was infact sailing on Ginger Knut that led me into "big" boat sailing. If I remember rightly in one race we hit you by the SW buoy near the old lifeboat station! Fortunately I didn't helm in those days. Was it your boat that had green stripped rugby tops as crew uniform?
Best regards
Mike
 
brainstorm said:
Very sad end to my old boat Get Knotted. Evidently they tried to tow her off the rocks yesterday afternoon but she sank. Guess the hull had been holed. I owned her 1982 to 1992 and we used to race at Abersoch and in some of the ISORA races. No sprayhood and no inboard enfine in early days we were clearly mad!
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She was pulled off the rocks at high(er) water, but, as you say, had been holed, and basically sank, but somehow she was still towed into Penzance harbour, and placed alongside a quay. The last news report showed only the mast above the water, but I guess she will be lifted eventually.
 
Hi Vegable, you have a good memory of racing in Abersoch but I think it was Gamekeeper with the green and white rugby shirts!

Appledore, pleased to hear Get Knotted has been recovered although I fear the boat could be a write off as repair costs and engine works may exceed the value of the boat. Let’s hope the owner is ok and has the enthusiasm to get her seaworthy again. I am (perhaps!) ashamed to say it was me that named her Get Knotted, I think she was Seaquest when I bought her. We were all young once!
 
We had a GK29 parked in the drive over the road for some years. It was called “Giant Killer”. I have never seen her in the water though.
 
oldmanofthehills said:
A proper ensign for a Cornish boat until such time as the Cornish flag is incorporated into the British flag. Cornwall is not England !
There should be spare space on the jack if Scotland sadly leaves the Union, but dont know how the Welsh dragon will fit.
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We had better leave space for the other 47 counties as well. I look forward to seeing the three cutlasses of Essex on the Ensign too.
 
vyv_cox said:
We owned Good Knews quite a few years ago. I believe she is in Ireland now but by a strange coincidence another Good Knews is owned by a club member.
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Funny you should say that, a member at Medway Yacht Club owned another GK called Get Knotted and sold it in the early 90's, he believed it went to the West Country which I assumed was this boat until claimed above.
 
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