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Donk107

TAS

2446 posts

Donk107

TAS, 2446 posts

30 Jul 2020 7:37pm

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r13

NSW

1721 posts

r13

NSW, 1721 posts

30 Jul 2020 7:48pm

Yes saw that earlier today............making Laurel and Hardy look like experts.............mind you Sydney Harbour on New Years Eve has had similar incidents of top shelf incompetence...........

Strachan

ACT

47 posts

Strachan

ACT, 47 posts

30 Jul 2020 8:21pm

A convincing argument for bareboat charter companies to subsidise insurance companies.

saltiest1

NSW

2575 posts

saltiest1

NSW, 2575 posts

31 Jul 2020 4:43pm

That's hard to watch

shaggybaxter

QLD

2681 posts

shaggybaxter

QLD, 2681 posts

31 Jul 2020 5:05pm

saltiest1 said..
That's hard to watch

Absolutely!

garymalmgren

1396 posts

garymalmgren

1396 posts

31 Jul 2020 3:12pm

C'mon. That is nothing special.
Even I could do that.

gary

shaggybaxter

QLD

2681 posts

shaggybaxter

QLD, 2681 posts

31 Jul 2020 5:38pm

garymalmgren said..
C'mon. That is nothing special.
Even I could do that.

gary

Geez, I dunno Gary, that looked to me to be a stellar effort that us mere mortals would struggle to replicate.
Imagine being the poor bloody crew, trying to look all professional and proper whilst your skipper stamps his mark on arrival...literally!

garymalmgren

1396 posts

garymalmgren

1396 posts

31 Jul 2020 4:01pm

the poor bloody crew, trying to look all professional and proper whilst your skipper stamps his mark on arrival.

Crew? Crew?

No problem.
As skipper, my job is to scream and when things go bad, throw my hat on the deck and curse someone.
It takes a bit of practice, but easy once you get the hang of it.

The rule is , Don't Throw your hat with your expensive sunglasses clipped to it.

Toph

1890 posts

Toph

WA, 1890 posts

31 Jul 2020 4:49pm

Have you read the comments... It was apparently a boat full of skippers from a yachting school.

Personally I don't understand why the Med mooring technique.. It seems to me to just be a why of squeezing in as many paying boats as possible... I'm not sure if I'd sail around the Mediterranean just purely on the prospect of having to moore like this....

woko

NSW

1802 posts

woko

NSW, 1802 posts

31 Jul 2020 6:59pm

That was the problem then too many chiefs not enough Indians !

tarquin1

954 posts

tarquin1

954 posts

31 Jul 2020 9:39pm

Toph said..
Have you read the comments... It was apparently a boat full of skippers from a yachting school.

Personally I don't understand why the Med mooring technique.. It seems to me to just be a why of squeezing in as many paying boats as possible... I'm not sure if I'd sail around the Mediterranean just purely on the prospect of having to moore like this....

So that's why so many people do crazy **** like this, they teach them to do it like that.
Yes the stern too thing is normal in the Med to get more boats in.
There are some amazing spots in the med. Just stay away from busy areas in places like Greece and Turkey in August.

2bish

TAS

825 posts

2bish

TAS, 825 posts

2 Aug 2020 9:06am

It just kept getting worse. I literally felt sick watching, I had to turn it off.

herbyburger

303 posts

herbyburger

WA, 303 posts

2 Aug 2020 8:54am

Standard behaviour in the Med, I skippered a flotilla in the Ionian sea around Corfu/ Paxos in the early 00's , in the Med most yachties think they are driving power boats and have no idea, just need to kill the power guard the rails and let the breeze blow you in.

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