Tie your boats down this winter ..
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Topic: Tie your boats down this winter ..
Posted By: Guest
Subject: Tie your boats down this winter ..
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:40pm
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... this guy didn't ... http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-83235975256723009 - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-83235975256723009 Rick |
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Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:48pm
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What boat is that? ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:48pm
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Tasar ------------- |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:49pm
ouch that must of hurt his walet!  must of been a huge wind------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: m_liddell
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:53pm
My 14 did an impression of that last year (no damage luckily). I had tied it down to the chain in the boat park too, the boat must have slipped off the trolley from the wind and then been free to blow away. The method I use now includes attaching the trap wires to the chain too. |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 8:06pm
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I have two ropes on mine, wot with the mast being so far forward the tie downs at the club aren't ideally placed. I put one across the middle and one that goes round the mast, down to the ground, back up round the mast then back to the start again for tying down. Most of the boats at my club are tied down with one rope once round the mast then down to the gound at the other side. I've seen a few GP14s do a neat trick where they slowly work their way along the rope so that if they don't make it all the way over they end up suspended at an angle by the tie down rope... |
Posted By: tickel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 11:13pm
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I have this day picked up our Taser from being blown over, no damage. Such a light boat ! The worst blow over I ever saw at our club was a wooden fireball a few years ago. We had a very windy night and this fireball had been tied down to a ring concreted into the ground. There must have been a huge gust because the boat blew over and pulled the concrete, which was probably 40 kilos, out of the ground where it had been for many years flicking it up into the air where it crashed down onto the boat smashing through both chines and a stringer finishing up under the boat. Good bonfire though. Any other stories? ------------- tickel |
Posted By: yellowhammer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 11:53pm
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off topic somewhat but, while you're about it, service those trailers ... came across a FD (I think) on the verge on the way back from an open this year, where the right hand wheel had snapped off on a similar vein, we launched the club GP14 through a hedge one year on our way to the Southport 24 Hour Race one year ... didn't quite get the fore/aft trim right ... got through a lot of plastic padding that weekend, and a roasting from the committee when we returned! ------------- Laser 3000 @ Leigh & Lowton SC www.3000class.org.uk |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 18 Nov 06 at 12:22am
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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 18 Nov 06 at 8:41am
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anyone else remember this
This was lifted from page 17 of the favourite photos thread. There are 2 more photos there. ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 24 Nov 06 at 9:58am
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got my Merlin a nice new deck once courtesy of the Hobie owner next
door who didn't tie it down properly - didn't cost me a thing but
his/her insurance company probably weren't too chuffed at all.
It's worth remembering that it's not just your boat getting damaged you
want to worry about......
------------- Feeling sorry for vegans since it became the latest fad to claim you are one |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 24 Nov 06 at 1:43pm
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We've got a 60 foot Challenge Yacht parked directly behind our boat with it's mast up and all, sitting on scaffolding, their beem being 90 degrees to our transom. Had a few sleepless nights when it's been blowing old boots outside ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: Philsy
Date Posted: 24 Nov 06 at 4:04pm
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On a serious note, heavy winds are forecast around the UK this weekend.
Phil ------------- |
Posted By: hollandsd
Date Posted: 25 Nov 06 at 9:01am
In hythe Kent, there was a Merlin rocket that managed to pull 2 20kg blocks out of the ground and lift itself and its road base on to the small unsuspecting mirror dinghy next to it, lets say that there wasnt much of the dinghy left, just the trolly poking out through the hull from the weight, Mind you, it did look a bit funny  .
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Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 25 Nov 06 at 9:26am
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at my club a few years ago some flyin 15s didnt tie their boats down, they both rolled down the slip way and into the water. we arrived the next day and they were upside down in the water with snapped keels and no masts. as we went to retrieve them, a canoe was picked up by the wind and flew above all our heads and smashed against a tree. also we havent seen our comittee boat since!! ------------- Owain H 49er GBR055 Fireball 14291 Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club |
Posted By: simsy
Date Posted: 26 Nov 06 at 11:18pm
| Yeah, if anyone knows whose Moth (with the pussy cat on the side), belongs to at Weston, tell em to tie it down, cos it was in a bit of a state when i noticed it this morning. I think the gales had something to do with it, but still. |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 27 Nov 06 at 8:58pm
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An 800 spinnaker launched itself one windy night last winter, and took the boat and trolley over the wall and onto the beach (this was at HISC). Moral is; If you must leave your assy in the chute, don't leave it tied on to the halyard! ------------- |