This wasn't one of you lot, was it?

[maser_spyder]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167297/Lo...


What a tool.

[Simpo Two]

True but how are the 'thousands of pounds' calcuated?

[maser_spyder]

I would guess, at best, agriculturally.

Costs X to run a lifeboat station, which carries out Y rescues per year, divide one by the other.

Depends how you look at it I guess.

[Simpo Two]

Main problem is really that while they were rescuing this guy, someone else in real trouble could have been lost.

The cost in hard currency I suspect was a few gallons of diesel, but that wouldn't sound so good...

[mojitomax]

do mariners not have to pass some sort of basic mariner test ( like a driving test) or can anyone buy a boat and set sail?

[Riff Raff]

mojitomax said:

do mariners not have to pass some sort of basic mariner test ( like a driving test) or can anyone buy a boat and set sail?

No and Yes.

[Riff Raff]

Simpo Two said:

Main problem is really that while they were rescuing this guy, someone else in real trouble could have been lost.

The cost in hard currency I suspect was a few gallons of diesel, but that wouldn't sound so good...

The thing is though that the RNLI would have had to prioritise. It isn't clear whether the plank was actually in danger, or just needed a bit of help. If that was the case, i.e. he wasn't in harm's way, then they would have attended to any other serious incident first.

[maser_spyder]

Riff Raff said:

mojitomax said:

do mariners not have to pass some sort of basic mariner test ( like a driving test) or can anyone buy a boat and set sail?

No and Yes.

Though anybody doing so must be absolutely bonkers.

There's been one or two threads on this forum over the past couple of years where newbies have thought they would just 'have a go', luckily in the minority though.

Boating is easy, anybody can do it, but not to learn the basics is totally foolhardy.

[Ayahuasca]

Happens on a regular basis.

One of the best ones I heard was a guy sailing from the Thames to somewhere on the south coast. His plan was to 'keep the land in sight on my right'. He ended up sailing around and around the Isle of Sheppey.

[insurance_jon]

He's a local idiot to our office. he has self restored (read botched) a number of boats in the front garden.

complete numpty. When I last passed his front garden he had another large project under construction

[insurance_jon]

just read the article properly. It isnt the guy local to us, but we have a replica of him in normanton.