Sailing Pranks
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Topic: Sailing Pranks
Posted By: speedy gonally
Subject: Sailing Pranks
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 9:34pm
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Sorry if this is a copy of some one elses thread but I couldnt be bothered lookin further than the first couple threads. What is the best ever prank you've done thats sailing related? e.g. puttin summit like meat or cheese in sum1s air tanks so it rly smells when they open it next (tho of course it wldnt work to well if the air tank was completely air tight but its the idea that counts) or attching broken shackes sumwhere so wen a string is pulled it falls into the boat making the person really nervous and paranoid |
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Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 9:48pm
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Im told throwing a small wrecked block into a merlin on the way past is rather ammusing... Chris is the one to consult on this though.... ------------- |
Posted By: Quagers
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 10:30pm
removing the pin from a laser rudder stock so when the tiller is pulled forward it will fall off, nearly always resulting in a capsize. 
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Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 10:37pm
I have done this one! They spend ages going through the miles of string to find out which block has fallen off! ------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 10:41pm
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Just leave a spring clip in the bottom of someones boat and watch them take there rig down to make sure its not come off up top and then watch them check over the whole boat and eventualy and very gingerly go out saling hoping that they wont have something break on the way past. ------------- 
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Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 11:08pm
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if someone threw some used ductape in the bottom of my boat it would have the same effect!
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Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 11:17pm
A lone shackle pin can have the same effect. This one backfired on me as I have a chain of spare shackles attache to my toe-straps. One came off and I had to stop mid-race, convinced I was about to be demasted. ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 25 Oct 06 at 11:21pm
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This one isn't a prank but had much the same effect. The boat in front of me retired from kit failure (broke his crew). I thought I had missed a course change and followed him. Only worked it out 50m from the shore. Eejit! ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: tornado435
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 9:30am
| Taking a well known fleet members boat and mooring it on the water at Grafham on Saturday night is ammusing too, allegedly. Before my time!!! |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 10:48am
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aaaaaaahhhhhh, the voice of experience
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 3:22pm
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take the pins out the wheels of someones trolley, as they come up the slipway listen to the crunch as the boat hits the ground and the splash as the wheel is lost forever. NB best to do this to a realy badly beat up not to fragile boat otherwise its just a bit too mean. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 9:16pm
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as ben says... im your man, not just last weekend at SUSA yacht training. I witnessed a) a pair of boxers being duck taped to the spreader of the aberdeen uni boat I do not condole any of the above actions and they should NOT be carried out blah blah blah blah you get my point. ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 9:18pm
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and if anyone asks i sail for Glasgow Uni team... ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 10:57pm
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Lol, good skills Aberdeen The only one's i've ever seen done sucessfully in my limited experience are stealling peoples water bottles and windexes off their boats and undoing mainsheets and bungs while they are distracted with somthing else (usually one of the others) at 4.7 class training ------------- |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 26 Oct 06 at 11:10pm
hmm wonder who that was? -------------
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Posted By: DiscoBall
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 2:04am
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One uni yachting trip we shortened the trip line on another boats' spinni pole so one end always stayed open. Took ages for the bowman to work out why every time he clipped it to the guy it fell off the mast.... Aft mainsheet boats are great as you can sail past and wrap someones mainsheet around their boom just before the 5 minute...  |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 9:25am
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Invite someone out Cherub sailing for the first time in a honker and tell them it will be fine... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 10:57am
Hee hee. I've done that, I was trying to persuade myself it would be fine at the same time! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 6:33pm
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Invite Tim Noyce out in a Fireball in 30kts and tell him it's not very fast... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 7:08pm
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It was a minimum of 30knots! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 27 Oct 06 at 10:25pm
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ill hopefully have a few more after the weekend as we have a match racing tournament ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 29 Oct 06 at 9:14pm
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turn someones kite upside down while they are signing on. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 30 Oct 06 at 1:21pm
Wait till the smartasses in a sonar try and luff a 36 foot yacht motoring home, then have the 8 or so people on the foredeck open up with bottles of water/orange juice..... ------------- |
Posted By: sailorguy
Date Posted: 01 Nov 06 at 8:24pm
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did that one mike - they were not pleased. but there was no wind anyway so it didn't matter and racing was cancelled
------------- RS 500 (twin wire) Laser 157607 Laser 85446 Pico 2136 |
Posted By: phantom_iv
Date Posted: 01 Nov 06 at 9:26pm
Or even better, replace it with one from a Feva
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Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 01 Nov 06 at 11:10pm
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well the only reason we got water/orange poured on us was due to our qualification for BUSA am i not correct. and anyway had you been at the helm you would have asked for water aswell lollollol
------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: Thunderchild
Date Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 8:52pm
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i once swapped a fellow 5o5 sailors spinnaker for one from a mirror as he was registering for the race. Imagine his surprise!!
------------- Currently TBC! Previously Flying Dutchman K220 Int Moth K3822 Magnum 5 1961 5o5 Parker built K1305 Phantom K99 Europe K156 Unicorn K1065 Dart 18 5o5 Laser K5450 Enterp |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 9:59pm
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saw a mirror rig its kite sideways today. he didnt even need any "help" ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 06 Nov 06 at 8:11pm
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if the jib is attached but not hoisted, re-attach it upside down. Again i've discovered this one without any help...
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: skiffyskiferson
Date Posted: 08 Nov 06 at 8:24pm
| when screaming along double trapezing, its halarious to set of your mates quick release on his harness. not much of a prank but its pretty funny! |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 08 Nov 06 at 9:33pm
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more just plain harsh than funny and would probably end up with you going for a swim too but i can see the amusement!!! ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 08 Nov 06 at 11:34pm
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Gotta admit I wouldnt see the funny side of that either... looks like a swim for both of you and a broken tiller extension
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Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 09 Nov 06 at 1:35pm
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It would be funny to watch from the shore and on camera Watching one person just drop down then the other capsizing the boat afterwards ------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk">  BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: sailorguy
Date Posted: 09 Nov 06 at 7:43pm
and a good oppertunity to learn some interesting new words!
------------- RS 500 (twin wire) Laser 157607 Laser 85446 Pico 2136 |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 10:23am
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In a lull in the 49er my helm is usually like plojjfkjfpojfpojf, Translasted it means " Pull that "Fuc'@ng Mainsheet in"
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Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 11:42am
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Why dosn't he just luff? ------------- |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 1:37pm
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Not sure that would help him much if he's underpowered and going upwind Rick?
------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: Drift
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 3:30pm
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whalst at cork week sailing Lobster, comming back at night an swapping all the Sigma 38 boom covers around and watching them come back the next day and get on the wrong yachts. also platting all a yachts halyards the whole lengh of the mast and the tails out of the gammers. one crew was not best amused. this one takes a bit more effort. Sleeping with a female crew member from another yacht and having to give her back on the water just befor the 5 min. ------------- Jon Brooke (Helm) Harlequin GBR 7772 Stephen Jones Half Tonner 
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 4:25pm
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Respect! Good effort, though if she wasnt tasty id dare say the other boat would infact instruct you to keep her!
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Posted By: redhotchilicat
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 4:45pm
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My personal favourite is played out from a training rib and involves only a bucket tied to 10 feet of old mainsheet with a carabina at the other end whilst trainee is distracted clip carabina onto his/her B.A. and then at your leisure chuck bucket into water-a small but effective sea anchor pulling said person straight off stern of moving craft Never done it ........ honest ------------- go on you know it makes sense |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 4:50pm
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ohh that sounds evil ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10 Nov 06 at 7:16pm
sounds painful 
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 11 Nov 06 at 9:45am
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But funny
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Posted By: combat wombat
Date Posted: 10 Dec 06 at 9:37pm
At Cork week this year a guy tried to steal the "Maximus" flag off the
98ft canting keeled super-maxi beast... I helped the crew catch him and
got a tour round the boat as a reward  He never got it down as theres so many bloody halyards and jammers, he couldn't work out which one it was. I believe he was stripped naked (his clothes then stolen) and chucked off the dock. ------------- B14 GBR 772 |
Posted By: Quagers
Date Posted: 10 Dec 06 at 10:08pm
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Just remembered something ive done, hoisting underwear up the mast |
Posted By: Starling1043
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 3:54am
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I put about 200 marbles in a splash 3 years ago and they still havnt got them out and every time they heel in a gust they capsize and every time he plans you can hear them roll to the back of his boat.
I also managed to put his PDF up a flag pole and it got stuck and he had to climb it |
Posted By: Jamie600
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 3:22pm
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Sail to leeward of a Laser while waiting for the start and hook the back bit of their mainsheet around the top of the boom so the upper block jams, then watch as they to pull the boom in to unhook it without capsizing. ------------- RS600 1001 |
Posted By: bferry
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 4:49pm
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How about untying the boom block stopper knot which keeps the mainsheet attached and under tension. Then watching the helm tighten the mainsheet when launching only to discover that its run through all the blocks and all he has in his hand is the end of the sheet! (self inflicted and must be amusing to have been watching) ------------- Bernard Vareo 249 Miracle 2818 Malta |
Posted By: mattmd
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 4:50pm
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Whilst training, sail alongside another boat, get someone to sail with you, sail close to the other boat, they jump off capsizing the other boat making sure it goes turtle then you come back and collect your partner in crime, and watch the unsuspecting victim struggle to pull their boat upright again. Simple, effective and really annoying ------------- Matt MD Contender GBR-620 |
Posted By: Mister Nick
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 5:25pm
| It's pretty entertaining to throw part of a shackle onto another boat while racing. Their panic is guaranteed to be hilarious. |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 5:40pm
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I find it particularly entertaining mooning them as I sail past.. Child that I am.
Even better if the helm's female. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 6:37pm
------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 7:22pm
| SGP at Rutland several years ago a certain pink Hornet woke up to find a blow up sheep hoisted up the mast. |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 03 Nov 10 at 10:18pm
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Ask them where there bung is, or mention its out. They will laugh it off but have to check. Another one is to tie peoples trapeze adjusters in a knot. Always a pain. ------------- |
Posted By: bawbag
Date Posted: 05 Nov 10 at 3:42pm
bag of nitromors down a laser mast step
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Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 05 Nov 10 at 4:28pm
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putting a laser on top of club house after a few quiet ones
condoms in the spinny chute
getting the competition steaming drunk and then putting their haylards at the top to the mast when you know its gonna be blowin old boots the next day so they have to climb up whilst on the mooring.
fill someones drying drysuit up with water ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: mattmd
Date Posted: 06 Nov 10 at 9:33pm
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drysuit in the freezer over night soaked in water of course, freezes up the zip, as they panic to get their suit zipped to get to the start during regatta ------------- Matt MD Contender GBR-620 |