Keep your speed down on the water too..
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They throw their weight around in Poole Harbour too - even if you are miles away from anyone, in a cold evening with no one on the beach, just churning over waves at a safe 20mph in a boat capable of 50mph.
Muppets. M0R0NS.
It's quite odd really because quite often going slowly in a boat is extremely dangerous. Each boat has it's range of speeds, but 20 is a often good safe low-wake method of keeping the boat right up out of the water and hitting each wave with positive angle.
Too slow (at the limit in fact) you have a huge bow-wave, tend to use the front of the boat as a big water scoop and sink, or at the least create a huge hole behind you in the water which other boats you are creeping past (at the limit) to fall down, swing around violently and flick the occupants over the side.
Oh and most boats at the limit are not yet on the plane and cause the largest strain on the engines and use the most fuel.
To55ers.
Muppets. M0R0NS.
It's quite odd really because quite often going slowly in a boat is extremely dangerous. Each boat has it's range of speeds, but 20 is a often good safe low-wake method of keeping the boat right up out of the water and hitting each wave with positive angle.
Too slow (at the limit in fact) you have a huge bow-wave, tend to use the front of the boat as a big water scoop and sink, or at the least create a huge hole behind you in the water which other boats you are creeping past (at the limit) to fall down, swing around violently and flick the occupants over the side.
Oh and most boats at the limit are not yet on the plane and cause the largest strain on the engines and use the most fuel.
To55ers.
Streetcop said:
To55ers.
All of 'em
Sweeping statement or what....
Actually only one of the guys that asked me to slow down (and endanger my vessel in doing so) was a complete to55er, the other guy was human and it was obvious he was wondering what the other guy was on.
Boats are not like cars - there is a third dimension, water all around and if your boat sinks you can drown. Your job as skipper is to ensure comfort and safety, speed is totally secondary to that.
You really do have to be the one crossing the harbour in a deserted autumn evening, going slowly so as not to catch the attention of the rozzers despite wanting to open it up and cruise back at 40+, to appreciate the sheer idiocy and pathetic moronic dumbass ignorance of someone why obviously knew nothing about boats, nothing about safety and couldn't even explain his own actions.
So yes, the title of To55er in this case was richly deserved and properly earned.
If you manage to get caught by the harbour police in most places you are not trying hard enough. I spent many happy years evading the Salcombe and Dartmouth harbour masters in various dinghies. As long as you don't p*ss off the fishermen you are OK.
The closest scrape was when I was pursued down Salcombe estuary as the tide went out, luckily I was in a lightweight aluminium dinghy with a much shallower draught than the harbour masters launch.
I would have thought twice if there was the beast in the 1st post prowling
The closest scrape was when I was pursued down Salcombe estuary as the tide went out, luckily I was in a lightweight aluminium dinghy with a much shallower draught than the harbour masters launch.
I would have thought twice if there was the beast in the 1st post prowling
mungo said:
So that will be the harbour master then rather than the police?
No the harbour master is pretty cool and had gone home by then, the rozzers had a crackdown during the day for some reason with loads of police. That's why I was going as slowly as I could without endangering the boat, the wind had picked up and the waves were choppy.
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