A Long Island Sound "sailor" takes the family and friends out for a daysail.
Due to his own negligence, the propellor shaft comes loose and falls out of
the boat. This goes unnoticed until there's 18 inches of water in the cabin
and both batteries are flooded. After 5 minutes of frantic mayday calls on
the radio he realizes it is dead. So then he uses the handheld, screaming
mayday into it and firing no less than 12 flares in 5 minutes. Everyone on
board is in a total panic. There is no dinghy, no inflatable. The water line
is approaching the gunwales. The coast guard sends out a helicopter with 2
rescue swimmers. The children are taken first, then the women. The
helicopter is at capacity and must fly to base so he is left onboard the
sinking boat. 20 more minutes go by and the sailboat is near the point of no
return. Fortunately the tow service from the nearby marina comes to the
rescue and with the help of auxiliary pumps and a wooden plug the boat is
saved and towed back in. This is a true story, there's a news story and a
coast guard report with eyewitness accounts. Guess who the "sailor" is.

BRAVO ZULU to the Coasties.

John

"Bob" wrote in message
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A Long Island Sound "sailor" takes the family and friends out for a
daysail. Due to his own negligence, the propellor shaft comes loose and
falls out of the boat. This goes unnoticed until there's 18 inches of water
in the cabin and both batteries are flooded. After 5 minutes of frantic
mayday calls on the radio he realizes it is dead. So then he uses the
handheld, screaming mayday into it and firing no less than 12 flares in 5
minutes. Everyone on board is in a total panic. There is no dinghy, no
inflatable. The water line is approaching the gunwales. The coast guard
sends out a helicopter with 2 rescue swimmers. The children are taken
first, then the women. The helicopter is at capacity and must fly to base
so he is left onboard the sinking boat. 20 more minutes go by and the
sailboat is near the point of no return. Fortunately the tow service from
the nearby marina comes to the rescue and with the help of auxiliary pumps
and a wooden plug the boat is saved and towed back in. This is a true
story, there's a news story and a coast guard report with eyewitness
accounts. Guess who the "sailor" is.




Did this really happen to Capt. Rob, aka "Bobsprit?" Please link to a
report if you can. I'd like to see what kind of a sailor this blowhard
really is.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Bob" wrote:

A Long Island Sound "sailor" takes the family and friends out for a
daysail. Due to his own negligence, the propellor shaft comes loose
and falls out of the boat.

That's why you put a hose clamp on the shaft to eliminate this problem
in the first place.

Lew

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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"Bob" wrote:

A Long Island Sound "sailor" takes the family and friends out for a
daysail. Due to his own negligence, the propellor shaft comes loose and
falls out of the boat.

That's why you put a hose clamp on the shaft to eliminate this problem in
the first place.

Lew



Great minds think alike. I put a hose clamp (actually two) on my rudder
stock the first week I owned my boat. I had heard stories of the tiller
hardware carrying away on various boats and if this happened to my boat the
entire rudder would be free to fall straight down, rudder, rudder stock and
all and sink to the bottom.

People like Bobsprit have no clue. People like him are not capable of
discerning cause and effect. They cannot extrapolate eventualities from the
simplest of starting points. Consequently, they remain chronically
unprepared and they blame things on accidents or bad luck. This type of
person is your typical liberal when it comes to politics. They don't know
the meaning of personal responsibility so they embrace a political system
that places the responsibility for their own failings on somebody else.
These are the slip and fall lawyers of politics. Always placing the blame
somewhere else and always expecting a free ride because they are owed it
just for being around.

This type of person is particularly unsuited to be a sailor because sailors,
in order to succeed, must assume responsibility for their own actions.
Sailors must be able to see eventualities and sailors must thoroughly
understand all the systems aboard their vessels and be prepared to cope with
any and all ways these systems are prone to failure.

Bobsprit only has training in babysitting children and saying, "Yes, honey!"
at this point. He never took sailing seriously even before he got henpecked
and pussy whipped. He was always bragging and showing off and gloating over
how his toys were better than everybody else's toys. His attitude has always
been when he breaks his toy due to incompetence that he will get some money
from his wife or from his estate and he will buy a bigger and better toy
only to have to struggle through the entire process again without ever
having learned one thing in the meantime.

The big lunk is a waste of space and a bad example not only as a sailor but
as an example of manhood.


Wilbur Hubbard