If it's a C&C32 abandon ship.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

I wouldn't recommend getting off the boat in the conditions he described.
It's safer on the boat. I would put everything I could as far as anchor goes
in the water, get some sail up.. something is better than nothing, hand off
the helm to someone else, and get the engine going if possible.. If it just
wasn't going to work, and we were losing ground, I'd try and head for
the sand, with the idea of running it up as far as possible. Screw the boat
at this point, it's the people stupid. :-)

"Joe" wrote in message
om...
(Bobsprit) wrote in message
...
Through a series of rogue waves, bad tactics and bad weather, a storm is
blowing you ashore. There is sand. There are rocks. Engine is dead.
There's no
time to get you tattered sails into something resembling an effective
foil.
Behind you, your Zodiac dinghy is doing a dance, but it's still there at
the
end of the tow line.
Forget how or why. You're IN THIS SITUATION. You're expecting to run
aground
anytime....

What do you do? Abandon her? Try to ride her into soft sand? Drop the
hook and
prey?

Not a quiz. Interested in hearing thoughts on this.

Capt RB

Start the dinks motor and tow your vessel out to safety.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

MSV RedCloud

Bwaaahahahahahahahaaa!
Now that I'd like to see!

Hey, Ozzy....6 years ago I used a Dinghy with a 4 hp to tow a 27 foot sailboat
off a dock that was on fire. The coast guard ordered me to stop the effort to
rescue the boat and I ignored them. I have pics of the huge fire taken
afterwards.

RB

Hey, Ozzy....6 years ago I used a Dinghy with a 4 hp to tow a 27 foot sailboat
off a dock that was on fire. The coast guard ordered me to stop the effort to
rescue the boat and I ignored them. I have pics of the huge fire taken
afterwards.

RB

Yep, but that wasn't in the middle of a storm on a lee shore

Nope, but the point is that in less than 10 knots on the boat's beam, it was
VERY hard to get her off the pilings. In a storm it just wouldn't happen,
noway, nowhow, even with a 9.9hp.

RB

Obviously no experience of storm conditions.

Cheers MC

Donals Delight. wrote:

On 24 Nov 2003 07:10:15 -0800, (Joe) wrote:


(Bobsprit) wrote in message ...

Through a series of rogue waves, bad tactics and bad weather, a storm is
blowing you ashore. There is sand. There are rocks. Engine is dead. There's no
time to get you tattered sails into something resembling an effective foil.
Behind you, your Zodiac dinghy is doing a dance, but it's still there at the
end of the tow line.
Forget how or why. You're IN THIS SITUATION. You're expecting to run aground
anytime....

What do you do? Abandon her? Try to ride her into soft sand? Drop the hook and
prey?

Not a quiz. Interested in hearing thoughts on this.

Capt RB

Start the dinks motor and tow your vessel out to safety.

Joe
MSV RedCloud


Bwaaahahahahahahahaaa!
Now that I'd like to see!


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Hey that might work!

Cheers MC

Donals Delight. wrote:

On 24 Nov 2003 21:29:09 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:


Hey, Ozzy....6 years ago I used a Dinghy with a 4 hp to tow a 27 foot sailboat
off a dock that was on fire. The coast guard ordered me to stop the effort to
rescue the boat and I ignored them. I have pics of the huge fire taken
afterwards.

RB

Yep, but that wasn't in the middle of a storm on a lee shore

Nope, but the point is that in less than 10 knots on the boat's beam, it was
VERY hard to get her off the pilings. In a storm it just wouldn't happen,
noway, nowhow, even with a 9.9hp.

RB


Exactly, so Joes ridiculous comment that he'd jump in the dinghy and
tow off is just that...ridiculous, Might as well jump overboard with
an anchor around your neck.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

grab a mooring!

grab a mooring!

Hey, that saved my buddy's J27 two years ago.

RB

Hey, that saved my buddy's J27 two years ago.

RB

Was he "power gybing"?

Actually, he was close to his mooring field when a T-Storm came along. He got
slammed and managed to grab a mooring (not his) which probably saved him from
becoming "one" with another boat.

RB

Do you think Booby was recounting his friend's story when he claimed a
similar escapade? In other words he was lying again?

Cheers MC

Donals Dilema wrote:

On 25 Nov 2003 11:55:38 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:


Hey, that saved my buddy's J27 two years ago.

RB

Was he "power gybing"?

Actually, he was close to his mooring field when a T-Storm came along. He got
slammed and managed to grab a mooring (not his) which probably saved him from
becoming "one" with another boat.

RB


So your friends are incompetant too?


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.