Yo Roy!

BruceK said:
o_O I've used that lift once. You take your boats life in your hands using it. Even so I'm not sure it's operational. Menai Marine sold out, has anybody taken it over?
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seen a couple of boats lifted there over the past few weeks. A couple bigger than us, so assume its ok. Does look old though.

Not sure, as there is little online about them. Will have to ask.
 
Can too! I've had plenty practice!

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BruceK said:
Them's big words after the fact :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Everybody here who's paid their dues knows that gut sinking feeling when Neptune pulls that chain.
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After a few years the story will grow into some heroic survival epic, but for now I doubt it'd be shortlisted for the next season of saving lives at sea! :LOL:
 
LBRodders said:
Fortunately it just proved to be inconvenient more than anything. Fingers crossed the repair costs can be man maths'd into fuel / boat usage budget which is likely to be healthy over the next month or so!

@BruceK always said he couldn't get in a tender front first! :LOL:
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so what actual happened with your boat?
 
Mr Googler said:
so what actual happened with your boat?
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Went out for a day trip, had a fantastic day. Because of the tides, the window back into the doc was 2130-2230. So we intended to leave the anchorage late.
At 2030 did propulsion checks and realised we had no ahead. The only thing that changed from arriving was that we had the leg trimmed up [not fully up, as its inhibited because of the swim platform supports [another story]].

After a lot of chin scratching, testing this and that, we realised we weren't going anywhere for the night as we were stuck in astern. [not ideal as the day trip was to avoid Sunday's winds picking up].
We decided to down tools at dusk and give it another go in the morning when we could speak to the Mercruiser dealer and see if we were missing anything obvious.
Got up at first light, took apart the throttle/gear cradle and tried to manually get it in forward, but couldn't. It seemed everything in the boat was working fine and agreed with the Mercruiser dealer that the problem lay in the leg.
They tried to get us a commercial tow, but couldn't so I took the decision to 'pan pan'.

The only really safe option was to get a tow from the RNLI so that we didn't end up marooned with the weather changing. The wind over tide across the bar was 'lively' to say the least.

RNLI as you would expect were fantastic. We did everything our end to limit their inconvenience and contact with others.

Alongside in the pub for a late Sunday lunch reflecting on the weekends event. We await a full diagnosis, but the smart money is out the water and leg off. Frustrating as we had an100hr service 4 hours ago!

As Bruce states, always good to appreciate the fine line of being in control and not!
 
BruceK said:
Yup. I can do all sorts of tricks. Lie, sit, kneel, beg. You name it


It's actually great fun and surprisingly hard work. Just the thing to tone up the belly muscles with
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Ha, brilliant.

Instead of going to Uni, I spent the summers on our family fast fisher towing pals in the solent. In order to obtain the bragging rights, you had to stay on the longest - not an easy thing as the standard manoeuvre was figure of 8s.

Hauling pals aboard by the scruff of their buoyancy aid was standard as forearms and shoulders were absolutely numb. Good times.
 
Fancy that. Offered a ride on the lifeboat and you refused? You missed out. Next time take the tour, if nothing else get to see how thick the hull is. A mate bought the prototype used for testing. Not grp but 9 inches of kevlar. in the bows. Awesome machine.
 
Yes, the kids eyes lit up when they offered - but I was in shame mode and didn't want any part of it to appear a jolly! :LOL:

edit - plus they were all in masks, and there was absolutely no reason to have unnecessary contact.

I know, fantastic boats - absolute beasts.
 
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