Post by phil70 on Feb 5, 2019 13:05:25 GMT
OK, let's hear about disasters near or actual that you have instigated.
I'll start with the time I nearly lost Chris and the boat, it was December and having finished work for a week off we left our mooring late to run down to the Ferry Inn at Stokesby on the River Bure.
On our Broads cruiser at the time, made very good time in the dark which puzzled me a bit, I thought I must have been running with a few more revs.
We decided to moor on the public staith, no other boats around and only 50m from the pub.
As usual Chris took the stern line lasso a bollard and I hopped off with the bow line. Chris couldn't hold the stern and I found myself clinging on for grim death as the current whipped the boat round. Chris had to run through the boat, stick some revs on and bring it back in. I should add that Chris is only partially sighted and darkness is not her best friend.
Got tied up and had a phew! moment and a fag.
What had gone wrong was I had checked the tide tables as usual (We always moor into the flow) but..... I had looked at the wrong week so instead of mooring into a rising tide I tried to do it on the ebb. The river is narrow at thus point and staith is on the outside of a bend the flow would have been about 6knots. If I'd let go Chris would have been having a night out in Great Yarmouth (without me!)
Phil
I'll start with the time I nearly lost Chris and the boat, it was December and having finished work for a week off we left our mooring late to run down to the Ferry Inn at Stokesby on the River Bure.
On our Broads cruiser at the time, made very good time in the dark which puzzled me a bit, I thought I must have been running with a few more revs.
We decided to moor on the public staith, no other boats around and only 50m from the pub.
As usual Chris took the stern line lasso a bollard and I hopped off with the bow line. Chris couldn't hold the stern and I found myself clinging on for grim death as the current whipped the boat round. Chris had to run through the boat, stick some revs on and bring it back in. I should add that Chris is only partially sighted and darkness is not her best friend.
Got tied up and had a phew! moment and a fag.
What had gone wrong was I had checked the tide tables as usual (We always moor into the flow) but..... I had looked at the wrong week so instead of mooring into a rising tide I tried to do it on the ebb. The river is narrow at thus point and staith is on the outside of a bend the flow would have been about 6knots. If I'd let go Chris would have been having a night out in Great Yarmouth (without me!)
Phil
