Too Lilly white for you? Kinda like a frog's belly.My eyes! My eyes! No more hind sight. Please!
- Will (Dragonfly)
Too Lilly white for you? Kinda like a frog's belly.My eyes! My eyes! No more hind sight. Please!
This tale should be a cautionary warning to those who think they can survive going overboard and haul themselves back to the boat on a trailing line or harness and up a stern ladder or rope. It is shear fantasy. Forget all the fancy ideas for getting back aboard, and concentrate all your energy on not going overboard, or on your long distance swimming stamina.Who here has made a mistake of thinking that sending a line off the transom with a loop in the end of it, that you hold on to and then jump in the water, while the boat is sailing downwind with the jib on a whisker pole the a preventer on the main was a good idea.
Thinking that the boat would slow down, you would cool off and then you could just hand over hand up the line back to the boat.
Well I can tell you first hand the boat doesn't slow down your swim trunks will come off and eventually you will have to let go of the line as you just can't hold on any longer.
While waving at your boat goodbye, swimming in your birthday suit and yelling at the top of your lungs to your almost deaf father to take note that you are no longer the catch of the day, you start to look at the expanse of water around you, middle of Lake St. Clair and ask, do I really want to be rescued or which way do I need to start swimming.
It did take some time but dad finally got the boat turned around and then found me, then he couldn't stop laughing, not sure if it was at my current situation or the extreme shrinkage...... will never know, he has passed on to calmer waters now.
That's my contribution to this thread from some 35 years ago while sailing our 22' Viking.
ROTFLMAO!!!Towing the dingy I saw that it was filling up with water. The dagger board sump was pumping water with every wave because the chief maintenance officer had failed to install the dagger board sump plug. Well we are making great time on a broad reach and don't want to spoil everybody's time so I decide to just real in the painter and get in the dingy while under way (5-6 knots). Leaning on the dingy bow I get tangled in the painter and have to lean heavily on the dingy bow causing it to list massively to port and allowing me to fall into the water. The first mate had the presence of mind to insist that I put on a PFD before all this started (I protested but put it on). It is AMAZING how small a boat gets in short order at 5-6 knots. The first mate executed a perfect turn to windward, return to MOB maneuver. it is AMAZING how big a boat gets when it bears down on you at 5-6 knots. As she passed by going dead down wind I tried to grab the stern sugar scoop seam. Not joy, hey here comes the dingy! got a hold of the gunnel and moved to the stern where I managed to pull myself aboard. first mate gets back on course (still at 5-6 knots!) and throws me the bailer.
We're not sure of Daydreamer41's physical abilities.This tale should be a cautionary warning to those who think they can survive going overboard and haul themselves back to the boat on a trailing line or harness and up a stern ladder or rope. It is shear fantasy. Forget all the fancy ideas for getting back aboard, and concentrate all your energy on not going overboard, or on your long distance swimming stamina.
You’re obviously someone’s grandchild. Possibly 11 years old.Some of us are superhuman...
Well, I was.You’re obviously someone’s grandchild.
Well, I was.Possibly 11 years old.
As holes go, that is a very nice hole. Mostly round with nicely seared edges so the fabric doesn't fray. It might be a good place to glue in a PVC pole to mount the running lights or perhaps for a pylon for the wake boards. Or maybe mount an access port so that the inside of the tube can be inspected.So now we have a picture. Nothing is as good as a picture of the “THING” done.
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A perfect hole brings on the tears.
Why can we only like a post once instead of thousands of time? Why?Dumbest thing I've done with a boat... I bought one.
I used to think I was invulnerable.35 years ago I thought I was almost superhuman, now I just want supper with a human
Consider yourself lucky. In the old format, if you liked a certain person's posts too much, you were restricted from liking even a completely different post of said person's issue.Why can we only like a post once instead of thousands of time? Why?
Sam
Bromance not allowed.e.g.- "You've given this person too many likes already".
What is that? It's not a mariner, but it looks a lot like one. I'd be interested in that bow roller and stantions. Maybe the pulpits too.well, I own this for one thing...