Moron of the Month
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Topic: Moron of the Month
Posted By: alstorer
Subject: Moron of the Month
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 1:01pm
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http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2010/april/28/sheppey_sailor_uk.aspx - Motorcrusier division. Go read the story. It's a bit scary, frankly. Remember when you're on there- not everyone in charge of a boat has a clue about what the hell they're doing. ------------- -_ Al |
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Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 1:17pm
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I http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8648011.stm - read this on the BBC website this morning. How is it possible to confuse the Isle of Sheppey and the UK? Graeme, isn't this your neck of the woods?  |
Posted By: kanga
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 1:32pm
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I saw this too! Absolutely incredible! Quite scary when you think who is roaming the waters!!!!!!! |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 2:14pm
Nooowah! That's the north coast just along from Whitstabewel. They wave to each other all the time that lot..(mostly cos they're very closely related) 
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Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 2:40pm
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Read this in the metro this morning. Apparently the coastguard gave him some advice and he just decided to re-fuel and try again. I believe his parting comment was 'so do I turn left or right after I leave?' The navy should have special powers to torpedo people like this. Volunteers on the lifeboat must get so ******* off with picking these type of muppets up!
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Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 3:32pm
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An excellent example of natural selection in operation. Darwin would be chuffed. With luck, he'll end up in France and add to the gene pool there instead of here. ------------- http://www.wilsoniansc.org.uk" rel="nofollow - Wilsonian SC http://www.3000class.org.uk" rel="nofollow - 3000 Class |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 4:25pm
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Coastguard Ian Goodwin said: "We passed on relevant safety advice and advised him that the best way to Southampton would be by train. Haha that has to be the best line in that story! To be honest I dont really want him to get to southampton, thats a bit too close to my home! ------------- |
Posted By: Mister Nick
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 6:42pm
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I glanced at this story when I was doing my paper round
this morning and thought it was totally ridiculous. What kind of moron goes out to sea that unprepared? I think the funniest thing is that he tried to navigate using a road map! Its scary knowing that nutters like this are roaming around the sea though...  ------------- |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 7:10pm
| What kind of moron goes out that unprepared?? Just watch Seaside Rescue a few times to find out - there's far too many of them. |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 8:21pm
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Too many idots get in trouble cause they just dont have a clue about boats or weather forecasts i always find it funny when the fog comes down you always find some yachtsmen going round in circles lost. I work at sea so i see it day in day out running aground seems to be quite a good one this last week ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: Jon711
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 9:48pm
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I saw the title of this thread and thought you meant me!!!! Then I saw that it was in GRF's area, and thought, well that explains everything!! |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 28 Apr 10 at 10:36pm
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Reminds me of a time when in my youth(a long time ago) I was at a beach party near Gurnard Isle of Wight. It was in the early hours and the fire was embers and we were sort of drowsing and thinking of going home when a flare was sent up very close followed by a shout of "help we are sinking we have children on board" Two of us ran down the beach to a motor cruiser who had gone aground. We said pass the children down we will take them to the beach. A very plummy voice demanded "where are we" Reply. Gurnard Isle of wight My God I tought we were in France.!!! Stupid tw*t had left Hamble cruised around the Solent most of the night and then gone aground on soft mud just west of Gurnard. Needless to say we left him to wait for the tide to come in and refloat him and told him if he headed for that big chimney over there(Fawley power station) it was nearly home. Seems things havent got any better even thirty years on.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 8:35am
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7619925/Coastguard-rescue-captain-calamity-sailor-who-almost-drowned-in-DIY-craft.html - Another one ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 8:48am
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And I'll have you know, Gods own County is clearly delineated by a natural boundary.
The River Medway separates the Southern Elite from the Northern Numpties and inbreds. Furthermore there is another River Boundary that borders the North Coast separating it from an even more socially and evolutionary inferior group who cluster around a region they refer to as Sarfend... Banjo's, can often be heard playing when the winds in the North, they count everything in sixes, refer to their mothers as sis and spend a lot of time in homes with wheels on them.(That have now sadly fallen off) 
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Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 8:55am
I love the description of the boat; "He had used two coffin-shaped boxes to make the twin hulls of the raft" - that's thinking ahead, but clearly he forgot his crew to use the other one? |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 8:59am
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Just another would be Cat Sailor imv. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 9:02am
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My mate who lives at Canterbury always says that when he visits us in Broadstairs on the Isle of Fanit that it's like a an island floating on a sea of cabbages!! He also says they ought to cut the moorings & let it drift away into the channel....! I love living here though..... But totally understand your thoughts GRF about Sheppy!!!!! Baaaaa!!!!
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Posted By: Laser 173312
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 9:41am
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The trouble with idiots like this is they provide ammunition for those who want to regulate our sport. The fact that the guy seemed to of not learnt his lesson and intended to repeat his foolishness is incredible. So how do you stop him, you can’t just not rescue him next time, no matter how stupid you think he is. But you don’t want to be wasting RNLI resources and endangering crews on avoidable launches. The only thing I can think of is that in this case the RNLI should claim salvage on his boat. If he’s as ignorant about the sea as reported, he won’t have known that this could have happened. I know the RNLI don’t tend to claim salvage, but in this case I would say it is the safest thing for everyone. ------------- |
Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 9:45am
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Except that the man in question was from Gillingham, sarf of the river, making him a Man of Kent, like you Graeme. We Kentish Men on the north shore extend our sympathy. But why do people have to bother the coastguard/lifeboat with such matters? Why can't they just watch? ------------- http://www.wilsoniansc.org.uk" rel="nofollow - Wilsonian SC http://www.3000class.org.uk" rel="nofollow - 3000 Class |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 11:35am
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Why can't they just watch? I remember having similar thoughts while the tw$ts from top-gear were sinking off Dover..... oh how I'd have loved to be in command of one of those ferries at that point..... "crunch" - "what was that?" - "oh, nothing"..... ------------- Feeling sorry for vegans since it became the latest fad to claim you are one |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 11:37am
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another one... http://www.chichesterharbour.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393:motor-boat-owner-fined-for-speeding&catid=46:chichester-harbour-boating-news&Itemid=60 - clicky
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 11:43am
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Posted By: hollandsd
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 12:31pm
Has doug lord moved to the Uk :-o ------------- Laser 184084 Tasar 3501 RS600 698 RS600 782 |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 2:31pm
If it was up to me there wouldn't be a toll. In fact there wouldn't even be a bridge. There'd be a wall. Seal all you Northerners in, let you form some retro-tribal society, probably involving the worship of goats. Not come down here bothering civilised folk. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 3:37pm
when I first took my wife (then girlfriend) to visit my folks in Broadstairs she accused me of having smelly feet. Very indignantly I pointed out that it was, in fact, the cabbages... |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 3:46pm
Has she found out the truth now? ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 4:04pm
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Alas yes. There are no cabbages in Somerset to blame, only apples. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 4:43pm
I think its because the denizens of the Thames coastal regions, on both sides of the river, male and female, just love to see strong men in uniforms... |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 29 Apr 10 at 6:05pm
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Hey leave broadstairs out of this its them people on the southern kentish coast who have the problem this as they are holding the man of kent for once !!!!!!!! ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 30 Apr 10 at 10:02am
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If you think these adventurous boaters are foolish, try reading "The Cruise of the Teddy" by E Tambs (1928). This guy set off on a voyage across the Atlantic, without sextant or charts.
His wife must have been mad as well; having just got married she agreed to this voyage, and even gave birth to their first child during it! |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 30 Apr 10 at 10:22am
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is the chap even from Gillingham? Possible he'd travelled to buy the boat? ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 30 Apr 10 at 10:25am
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I like the thinking. He's probably not even from Kent ------------- http://www.wilsoniansc.org.uk" rel="nofollow - Wilsonian SC http://www.3000class.org.uk" rel="nofollow - 3000 Class |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 30 Apr 10 at 11:53am
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the RNLI suggesting he should take the train "back" to Southampton was what made me wonder whether he was from Hampshire. But that could be lousy reporting by the paper. ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: ChrisJ
Date Posted: 06 May 10 at 4:32pm
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Happens all the time. My Father had made the 24-hour sailing crossing from Lowestoft to Holland. In the first sea lock (big things!) the boat next door wandered over as the lock was filling up saying: "We have just come from Hull. We are going to motor through the European canals for 2 months holiday. Can you tell us where we are on this AA map of Europe?". Apparently, they had headed east from Hull (head for where the sun rises) until seeing the land. Then they turned right and waited until they saw a sailing boat heading to the coast, and followed them in... No compass, no charts, no ideas.
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Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 06 May 10 at 4:49pm
I hope he pointed to a different country's coastline! |
Posted By: desteve1
Date Posted: 06 May 10 at 4:56pm
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wow, winging it hasn't put me up for it yet, I deserve it ------------- laser 81188 (looking for a name) |
Posted By: Jon711
Date Posted: 06 May 10 at 5:03pm
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An Essex resident would never have attempted it. But, it would have been lowered and have go fast stripes on the side!!! Only someone, from sarff of the river, would attempt it with out the (needed) modifications!! Jon |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 07 May 10 at 2:19pm
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To be fair Steve it wasn't just you..... ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 10 May 10 at 2:14pm
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it's the lack of responsibility at the other end of the age scale that made me cross..
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 11 May 10 at 1:28pm
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Not related to sailing, but a strong contender for the Darwin Awards! http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8157302.Hove_man_suffers_burn_after_vodka_exploded/ - http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8157302.Hove_man_suffers_burn _after_vodka_exploded/
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