Sailing Injuries
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Topic: Sailing Injuries
Posted By: clip
Subject: Sailing Injuries
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 8:26pm
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I sustained quite a nasty sailing injury this Saturday, that I thought I might share with you!! Whilst racing downwind, I was leaning against the boom, the boat broaches and the next thing I know I am swmining between the boat and guard rail, think I might have hit the guard rail on the way down!!
Anyone else sustained quite a colourful image?? |
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Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 8:46pm
I'll post a photo of my shins next weekend if it's windy 
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Posted By: Andrewst
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 9:32pm
| Mountain Bike injuries always look so muck more impresive |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 9:42pm
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Well if I had had a photo of my calves after sailing a firefly the other week that would beat that one on colour. Bruises still there after a week and it wasnt even that windy that day. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Hobbo
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 10:20pm
Today my crew launched a fly-away spinnaker pole at my face with no warning 
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 11:10pm
Yeah but that was your Dad... Fair game  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 3:39am
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Several people who I have crewed for in the FD have complained at me for doing that Hobbo, my reply tends to be. "I have to release the pole during gybes or drops, don't put your face in the way of it!" It is infact a very good game for the crew to try and collect the helm with the pole. The helms have revenge however while trying to poke the crews eyes out with their boat pointing stick. So it all evens out in the end.
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 8:38am
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Impressive! The ultimate PITA ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 9:48am
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You ought to avoid that kind of reading on a Monday morning... not good for your mental health
Oh, and I don't speak Portuguese, but I will be cautious next time I order a kebab. ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Hobbo
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 10:18am
Fair enough Jaime - however this was in the middle of a lightwind reach when we hadnt agreed on a drop! 
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Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 1:24pm
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Ah in which case it was probably just boredom, We did see that the Ospreys got a bit stranded when the wind dropped. ------------- www.sailfd.org/GBR - GBR Flying Dutchman |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 8:46pm
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my best sailing injury was on the parents cruiser when i fell over and took a great chunk out my knee and it was just laying there on the deck caught up in this D-ring eyelet thingy. still got a scar but ive got so many scars on my knees from falling off my bike and rugby i cant tell which one it is. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: sailorguy
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 9:50pm
not a sailing injury, but a mountain bike injury... mine in fact. and in case you were wondering yes they were all one incident. ------------- RS 500 (twin wire) Laser 157607 Laser 85446 Pico 2136 |
Posted By: Quagers
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 9:57pm
| once had my head slightly too high when gybeing in a laser, woke up on the floor of a RIB |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 10:17am
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Jesus Sailorguy. Please never reveal them in public again!
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Posted By: Adam.s
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 12:08pm
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Posted By: Jon Emmett
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 1:40pm
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Currently racing with a herniated disc in my neck. Absolute agony, deferred pain extremely instense in left forearm and left hand completely numb... tends to make sheeting a bit difficult! ------------- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Your-Own-Tactics-Coach/dp/0470973218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312565831&sr=8-1 - |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 2:24pm
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Do you shave your legs sailorguy???? ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: bovlike
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 3:48pm
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Broke a bone in my foot. I snapped the trap ring on my musto skiff and proceeded to fall off the boat, only problem was my foot was in the foot loop. Lucky to get a way with only breaking a small bone. I have to say I was squealing like a little girl when I was hanging upside down from my capsized boat with my foot bent around the rack. not nice ------------- Ian (Bov) Turnbull 18ft Skiff Ronstan UK http://www.ianturnbullmarine.co.uk - Chandlery, tapered ropes and specialist solutions for sailors who demand the best - BovBoats.co.uk |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 4:02pm
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I got crushed between my laser and the side a while ago and cracked a load of ribs and my collar bone and dislocated my hip. I'm only just getting back on the water now ------------- |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 4:12pm
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between your laser and the side of what?? I've had some pretty bad lickings cycling. I lost control down a hill in a slippery time trial and slid with my bike for about 50 metres because my shoe cleats wouldn't come out of the pedal. Got some nasty cuts n bruises but was really lucky it wasn't worse. ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 4:38pm
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Came in off the wire a bit quick for the gybe and kicked the, erm, kickbar. And no, we didn't survive the gybe... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 4:48pm
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My crew didn't spot the big gust coming and powered the kite up at just the wrong moment...
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 6:37pm
This is why I never use the foot loops (on my contender I had doorstops wedges screwed to the deck which I just pushed up against) ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: SetSail
Date Posted: 31 Oct 06 at 6:44pm
very amusing, i like it ------------- RS821 - Now for sale, PM for details |
Posted By: sailorguy
Date Posted: 01 Nov 06 at 8:19pm
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and i couldn't even find the pix of the worst bit of that injury
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Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 01 Nov 06 at 8:37pm
should be something out of a fosters advert but isnt...... ------------- international moth - "what what?" |