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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 13:03:16 GMT
Hit by a hire boat again this morning - second time in 3 weeks. At a bend I tooted, just in case there was someone coming, and 5 seconds later I saw something! They did not slow down, and I shouted "Can't you turn?!!", there was room for them to swing round and pass without hitting us. But they drove straight into the side of us. Three old men. You can just imagine the antics, death and destruction they cause in their motor cars. Luckily it was their front fender which absorbed the impact. I said "Did you hear me toot? and the driver said "Yes." Clueless cretins. Ah but, there are toots and there are toots - did you use the correct one?
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Post by bargemast on Jul 26, 2018 16:07:42 GMT
After all her stories about their future ex-Luxurious Broads boat they were going to buy to live on, and get rid off the house, their plans seem to have changed.
Still fooling around speeding along, while of course being the best and the most experienced for all boaters in the area.
Peter.
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Post by patty on Jul 26, 2018 16:10:28 GMT
a toot is a toot...I had all the different ones written out but when it came to it I just tooted...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 19:10:42 GMT
I just used the long 6-second TOOOOOOOOOOTT! which means Wake Up Stupid!! 5 short blasts is the correct sound signal for:- What are you doing you fucking idiot?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 19:13:38 GMT
After all her stories about their future ex-Luxurious Broads boat they were going to buy to live on, and get rid off the house, their plans seem to have changed.
Still fooling around speeding along, while of course being the best and the most experienced for all boaters in the area.
Peter.
I hate being shitty about people's choice of dog but I have to say it didn't surprise me they have a Labradoodle- one of the more trendy mongrels to have at the moment. We've never really chosen out dogs, they have always found us
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Post by bills on Jul 26, 2018 19:23:18 GMT
Look again. That's no labradoodle. It's a mutt they rescued and good on them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 19:28:37 GMT
Look again. That's no labradoodle. It's a mutt they rescued and good on them. It looks like a Labradoodle with my duff eyes and phone! Fair play if they rescued the hound - I did kind of assume that they didn't - not being an avid reader of CWDF I don't know the back story - assumption and all that!
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Post by thebfg on Jul 26, 2018 20:20:42 GMT
I just used the long 6-second TOOOOOOOOOOTT! which means Wake Up Stupid!! 5 short blasts is the correct sound signal for:- What are you doing you fucking idiot? we quite often hear 5 blasts from the cruise/container ships on Southampton water. you just know it's some Muppet in their yot doing something stupid.
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Post by patty on Jul 27, 2018 5:58:51 GMT
5 short blasts is the correct sound signal for:- What are you doing you fucking idiot? we quite often hear 5 blasts from the cruise/container ships on Southampton water. you just know it's some Muppet in their yot doing something stupid. Talking about Muppets in Yachts one tried to sneak between largish ship and dock wall on my last jaunt around the Baltic..zee air was quite coloured with language from those dockside and added to the 'tooting blasts' from the ship he saw the error of his ways....his 'fast thinking??' manoeuvre saw him almost head on with another part of the wall...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 6:27:54 GMT
Reading this thread reminded me of an old friend I have who lives on a boat. He's had about a dozen boats / wrecks / sinkers in the 25 years I have known him. He has on several occasions told people he is bump starting a boat when towing. As a joke. He has a silly sense of humour and delivers jokes in all seriousness. You just have to look at him to know he's having a giggle though. I wouldn't have thought people took it seriously but maybe they do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 7:22:17 GMT
Reading this thread reminded me of an old friend I have who lives on a boat. He's had about a dozen boats / wrecks / sinkers in the 25 years I have known him. He has on several occasions told people he is bump starting a boat when towing. As a joke. He has a silly sense of humour and delivers jokes in all seriousness. You just have to look at him to know he's having a giggle though. I wouldn't have thought people took it seriously but maybe they do. Yes i can see how this thread would remind you of an old scruffy tight arse who pretends to jump start boats. Reminded me of a friend i had once who used to eat baked beans from the tin with a tooth pick.
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Post by Jim on Jul 27, 2018 12:02:59 GMT
And then, of course there's Toots
I have the toot sheet laminated somewhere, maybe I'll do it again tout suite and put it on the inside of the port cabin door, as an aide memoire when at the helm.
.....and Foxy was obviously approaching the bend from the wrong direction, coming the other way he's have seen the boat. or something like that......
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 15:18:25 GMT
Just now luckily I tooted for a tight bend, and on which some prat had also parked - old duffer coming the other way, slowly, yes, but obviously hadn't expected anyone to be coming the other way, and didn't toot. Get these fossils off the waterways! About half an hour ago near Pyrford lock on the Wey a narrow boat coming the other way gave me two hoots. Then passed port to port. WRONG. Two hoots means starboard helm whereas the correct procedure is a single blast and port helm for passing an oncoming vessel unless there are other special procedures in place. I knew they were simply indicating their presence. I had seen them. It was a hireboat. They did not collide with me. In this particular situation I really don't give two hoots but it can be very very serious If I had taken serious consideration of their two hoots then I would have starboarded my helm as an emergency collision avoidance strategy as they had indicated that for some reason they would need to pass "green to green".in this situation it would have caused their vessel to strike mine a short way behind the bows at a nasty angle and almost certainly cause considerable damage. What was even more shocking is that when they engaged reverse they did not indicate this with sound signals. I hate that. And reversing always puts the boat in the way. Its so much better when both skippers port the helm as required and give it some oil and just get on with it !! Eta all references to helm assume a direct tiller steered vessel. in this case both my boat and the offender were direct tiller steered. Gods teeth.
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Post by patty on Jul 27, 2018 18:50:36 GMT
That sounds awfully complicated
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 19:02:36 GMT
Its actually very simple. If two vessels are approaching and there is any doubt as to the other's intention then the simple default to both vessels steering to starboard (their right) is enough to avoid a catastrophic collision. There may be a collision but it will most probably be a glancing blow rather than a side on impact. Unfortunately other things come into play sometimes and horrible nightmare situations turn up. Like this classic example en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Princess_Alice_(1865)If both skippers had ported the helm there would have been no problems. In the event more than 600 people drowned in water laden with raw sewage
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