Comentarii la: Atunci am pus la pământ Polar Seal (și consecințele acelui incident)

De: Ceril Illusio

Ceril Illusio — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:26:37 +0000

Nova Scotia – where Stan Rogers was scattered. Absolutely amazing – never knew sirens had such pretty noses 😀
…sigh. Come spring I am signing up to learn to sail somewhere here around Umeå – I got to try this. …probably a midlife crisis brewing xD

De: c4z3n0va

c4z3n0va — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:45:38 +0000

I touched a lot of bottoms but never sailed does that count

De: Dan Knox

Dan Knox — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:12:37 +0000

Always enjoy seeing nail polish on a sailing professional.

De: Daniel Price

Daniel Price — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:06:04 +0000

Im impressed. Not to take any pleasure from the mishap…but you owned it! When you own it…it seems like no big deal. You guys are a great team. Does Ryan own Dakota lithium?

De: WillN2Go1

WillN2Go1 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:53:45 +0000

Check your frame to hull joints. Probably good. It's just that Beneteau and Jeanneau glue their frames to the hull. Expedition Evans bought a 50' Beneteau that had a very bad keel strike, yanked the frame hull joint. (It all worked out. They got the boat for $25k! and had to do a lot of fixing. )
"One day it may happen to you…" Last week while heading out of the harbor I saw both Boat US tow boats each towing a boat. Wished them a silent best of luck and thought, someday that'll be me…

De: dedsert

dedsert — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:44:11 +0000

you really find it fine using regular starlink on a rocking boat that changes direction?

De: SV_DogHouse

SV_DogHouse — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:51:02 +0000

Glad you guys are ok! We also ran a ground twice recently while on our first anchorage luckily it was soft mud.

De: Brown Noise

Brown Noise — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:25:31 +0000

A not fun grounding, on a loopy friend’s Macwester 27 Bilge Keeler. Friend loopy ecause he Never listened. sigh.We had been out for the day from the Estuary he moored at, which had a very tricky Channel out into the Bay, on leaving, sand dunes to starboard with a sandbar right on the edge of the channel.Well he grounded on the Bar on the way out, so perhaps should have told him to go back to the mooring after towing him off with the Dinghy. Ho Hum, we Continued out, and I noticed there was something wrong with the Port side Channel Marker Buoys next to the large amount of Rocks, and at least one of the Buoys was missing. I commented that the Buoys weren’t right, and that on our return at Full Tide, I’d take the Dinghy in First to check them out. Which I did, and found that the last two were missing, so back on the boat, we headed in, and I explained when you get near the last visible Buoy, Slow Right down and Turn to Port . Response Eh ? Instant Repeat . Eh ? We are doing 5+ knots with the Tide behind us and those damned Marker buoys are running Out Fast, so at the top of my Voice I Shout Slow Down and Turn to Port ! Crash bang wallop , Mast Bends like a Bow, and crash bang wallop still not slowed Dow, we keep going until we run out of Rocks to collide with. I look below, grab Life Jackets and go below to check for leaks, He finally Slows down and we get to the Mooring, then wait for low Tide to check for damage. There was a small chip in the Gel Coat on each Bilge Keel, which I cleaned with acetone, and used some Gel Coat repair stuff on, then we went to the Pub. The Owner was a really nice guy but so bloody Clueless. Still, I suppose the Bulk of the “Don’t Do That “ Things on Boats I learned while Crewing for him. Never have an underpowered inboard engine, him getting us stuck for hours in Overfalls. Always have your engine and gearbox fully serviced, and regularly check the Stuffing box. Him, after having to push his boat with my Dinghy lashed to the side all the way up the coast to another friend’s mooring he had the use of for the Summer, as the engine died just as we left the Bay where the estuary e moored up was. Not a Breath of wind it was a millpond and a scircher of a day. It took 3 refills of the internal tank of my 3.3 Hp Tohatsu 2 stroke, to do a bit over 40 miles. We rolled into the Mooring, only to find out that he had booked us in at our Harbour Master friend’s Restaurant for lunch S he had said we’d be there by mid day at the latest, but it was about 7pm when we rolled in, after being welcomed by our friends on the Lifeboat, after a bit of a telling off, all he could say was Eh ? Ex Merchant Navy he knew it all, but just like Manuel in Fawlty Towers He Knows Nuuu Theeeng. Lovely guy though, a self made millionare three times, but three wives took him to the cleaners. One Demonic Darkside almost wife, was enough for me. Happy Days ! Bob.

De: Dutch Globetrotter

Dutch Globetrotter — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:15:25 +0000

Okay naming that rock "another fuc#in rock" almost cost me my laptop, I just took a sip of wine.

De: P Yaron

P Yaron — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:40:51 +0000

50 years sailing- lost count of grounding, adventure enough and you will too.