JumbleDuck
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I have some paper qualifications, so I don't need to learn any more.
Yachting myth busters
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I have some paper qualifications, so I don't need to learn any more.
jerrytug
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I have never bothered with "bits of paper" they prove nothing.
JumbleDuck
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It's the chain which holds the boat, not the anchor.
jerrytug
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He's flying a blue ensign so he will behave like a proper gent.
laika
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The types of people who do RYA courses think they don't need to learn any more once they've got their certificates.
ghostlymoron
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Is that a statement or a myth?
Seajet
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'It's a big boat so they must be experienced '
combined with
' It's a smaller boat so they must be novices '
combined with
' It's a smaller boat so they must be novices '
laika
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Or a meta-myth?
JumbleDuck
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of Malham?
bikerbill
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30 year old charts will be fine
I should have enough fresh water, gas, petrol or diesel for the trip
Outboard pull cords never break in an emergency
I should have enough fresh water, gas, petrol or diesel for the trip
Outboard pull cords never break in an emergency
jerrytug
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Myth!
LittleSister
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Underwater lights will make your boat look really cool.
JumbleDuck
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Seawater trapped in toilet intake pipes produces an eggy smell.
lpdsn
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'It's a big boat so they must be experienced '
combined with
' It's a smaller boat so they must be novices '
Or the one I allowed myself to fall foul of: "It's a wooden boat so he must know what he is doing."
JumbleDuck
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A chap I knew followed a French registered glider deeper and deeper into the Alps, where landing fields are few and far between and escape routes must always be kept clear, thinking "He's a local so he must know what he's doing". As it turned out, he did know what he was doing ... as the afternoon drew to a close he popped up his engine and buzzed off, leaving my friend to land in a valley so remote that it took his retrieve crew two days to fetch him back.
oldharry
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"Seagull - The best outboard motor in the world"
Afficionados will remember this was actually painted on the fuel tanks of older engines. Later they had to change it to "...for the world"
Afficionados will remember this was actually painted on the fuel tanks of older engines. Later they had to change it to "...for the world"
Seajet
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And later added by owners ' FFS ! ' I'd think.
Jumbleduck, your chum was very lucky wasn't he !
In our early days we thought ' He's a local so must know where he's going ' but after various excursions over rocks and sandbanks I decided the routine should be ' he's a local, may well be pissed or just bought the thing, avoid at all cost until proven otherwise, stick to the pilot instructions '...
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JumbleDuck
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Not really, as he wasn't daft enough to fly away from a landing field. In the Alps you mark up airspace maps with height rings for all the landing fields ("At 10,000; I can get to A, B or C, at 8,000' I can get to A or B, at 6,000' I can get to A and I must not be below 6,000'). Escape routes are a different matter, and often depend on local knowledge of good sources of mountain lift. It's a terrifying place to fly ... in a good year they lose ten times as many glider pilots in the French Alps as in the whole of the UK.
LittleSister
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There's a camaraderie among all those who go to sea. No matter whether you have an elderly small sailing boat, a 200' motor superyacht, or a jet-ski. . .
Seajet
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Apart from rockets, the only type I haven't flown in ( given the controls by generous pilots ) is an intentional glider; been in C172 with engine conked out, even that seemed like a brick but I'd much rather try putting it in a field compared to an airliner; I remember being told the glide ratio of a Harrier II, GR5-7-9, one had to be at 4,000', 1 mile from the threshold...
