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    Posted: 31 Jan 12 at 12:50pm
I think we may being a little harsh, without knowing the full facts.....

However, there is no way, I would have gone out, at this time of year, with no backup.....

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A somewhat larger version of the photo posted in reply #2

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Edited by MerlinMags - 31 Jan 12 at 1:43pm
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I guess we can assume he lost his hat when the mast fell off?  

Not even the worst muppet would go solo sailing in a fragile boat on the sea, in january without a radio and not remember to take their hat with them would they....


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I don't think it's a good idea to identify him. Public humiliation serves no purpose in cases like these IMO. He's probably learned his lesson, leave the poor sod alone.
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Agreed. C 541, I suggest you remove the large picture.

And the trouble with trial by internet forum based on press reports is that we really don't know everything - indeed hardly anything - that went on. For all we know he had beach cover arranged and for some reason it let him down.
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Originally posted by rogue

Originally posted by seamonkey

Anyone who goes out solo in a fragile craft at this time of year with no means of communication is an idiot ... who was it?

Good point seamonkey- even GRF has the brains not launch his untried, untested, potentially fragile and unseaworthy lump at this time of year solo.
 
Turn the clock back a few years and he was probably out smashing up his 29er not learning good judgement about when and when not to sail and the limits of your equipment and what the back up plan if somthing goes wrong.
 
 
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The reason we do this sport is because of the unpredictability, if we wanted the track to be the same everytime we would take up running round an oval running track. or play with a scalectrics.
i agree its a stupid thing to go out in a boat like a moth on your own but we dont know if there was anyone on the beach. waiting, we dont all go out with a saftey boat around, or sail inland.
that is a nasty bit of water with a strong tide, the only saving grace for him is with the tides around there chances are he would have been pushed towards poole
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"The dinghy, which had been dismasted off the Starting Platform at the entrance to the Lymington River about an hour earlier, was carrying no form of communtication. He was very fortunate to have been spotted before dark. "

"By the time the RNLI lifeboat found him he was half a mile west of Hurst Castle in failing light and a stong westgoing tide."

We do know what it states in the report ....
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Originally posted by Contender 541


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Why; it's only the same image that is on the RNLI site ...
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it's interesting that the boat appears to be, or formerly be, sponsored by King Fisher Yachtrope....

a quick google of that and you get this...
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