Land Ahoy!

Cobbydaler · 28-04-2010, 19:29

A novice mariner who aimed to cruise from Gillingham to Southampton using a road map as his chart has come a cropper...

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**Maggy** · 28-04-2010, 19:41

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

A novice mariner who aimed to cruise from Gillingham to Southampton using a road map as his chart has come a cropper...

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I live down by the Solent and believe me when I say there are stories like this every week.
I am really coming rather fond of the idea that anyone wishing to own or run a boat MUST pass a test..just they have to when driving.The waterways and off shore are just too damned crowded these days and there are too many inexperienced among them.

28-04-2010, 23:53

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

I live down by the Solent and believe me when I say there are stories like this every week.
I am really coming rather fond of the idea that anyone wishing to own or run a boat MUST pass a test..just they have to when driving.The waterways and off shore are just too damned crowded these days and there are too many inexperienced among them.

Well, its good that natural selection keeps picking off a number of idiots each year.

Tezcatlipoca · 28-04-2010, 23:58

This made me think of when Lord Blackadder planned to circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope...

Flyboy · 30-04-2010, 14:00

What a berk. He should be made to pay the cost of his "rescue." The RNLI have far more important things to do than act as a taxi service for twits.

Sirius · 30-04-2010, 15:03

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

What a berk. He should be made to pay the cost of his "rescue." The RNLI have far more important things to do than act as a taxi service for twits.

30-04-2010, 15:09

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

What a berk. He should be made to pay the cost of his "rescue." The RNLI have far more important things to do than act as a taxi service for twits.

In that case why don't we make ****ed up drinkers pay for their stupidity after a skinfull at the weekend when it lands them in A&E ?

speedfreak · 30-04-2010, 15:12

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‘However, he said he would get some fuel and get under way – but asked us if he went left or right when he came out of the Swale [the channel separating the isle from Kent].’
It is not known whether the man eventually made it to Southampton.

lol I wonder where he ended up. What a funny story

Jon T · 30-04-2010, 15:24

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Originally Posted by Matt D

This made me think of when Lord Blackadder planned to circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope...

.......and that's what I was thinking, then I saw your post as well

Anyway:

Captain Rum: You have a woman's legs, my lord! I'll wager those are legs that have never been sliced clean off by a falling sail, and swept into the sea before your very eyes.

Blackadder: Well, neither have yours.

Captain Rum: That's where you're wrong <throws aside table showing his lack of legs>

speedfreak · 30-04-2010, 15:30

Ive never seen Blackadder

Sirius · 30-04-2010, 16:18

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Originally Posted by speedfreak

Ive never seen Blackadder

Then do it now, You dont know what you have missed.

here's a hint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNoI...eature=channel

Jon T · 30-04-2010, 16:25

and relevant to this thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EfW9znJYjw

Flyboy · 01-05-2010, 23:33

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Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze

In that case why don't we make ****ed up drinkers pay for their stupidity after a skinfull at the weekend when it lands them in A&E ?

Because the NHS is paid for by national taxation and therefore this twonk has already contributed to its upkeep. The RNLI rely solely on the generosity of the general public, it is a charity and is manned largely by unpaid volunteers. They truly do have better things to spend their valuable resources on than rescuing idiots like him. They have no legal responsibility towards him, but they went to him, driven by their moral fortitude.

02-05-2010, 00:09

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Originally Posted by Flyboy

Because the NHS is paid for by national taxation and therefore this twonk has already contributed to its upkeep

In that case I'd rather like a refund on my taxes that get wasted on drunken morons.

MovedGoalPosts · 02-05-2010, 00:13

Without this thread getting dragged too

whilst the RNLI is voluntary, they will have been co-ordinated by the government (and thus taxpayer funded) coastguard, and perhaps other agencies were involved too?

It is at the moment everyone's right to set sail if they wish to, and perhaps that is one of the few true freedoms we are left as a society to experience.