eek my boat sank.

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Ankle-Biter

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Mobile phone rings,

"Hello Alan its Roddy here Harbour Master at Girvan. I have a bit of bad news your boat has sank"


Me - :o :o :o :o SILENCE


"Are you alright Alan,"

Me - :eek::eek::eek::eek: SILENCE - "What happened, your winding me up"

"Well there was a bit of a storm up here,conditions were shocking. It seems the mooring rope wraped round the aux engine rolled the boat and it filled up and went down. Luckly the chaps from the RNLI were near by training, they worked for 5 hours to get your boat refloated. Its ok now, but I will have to charge you because its on a pontoon "


I dont know how but all my electronics are all working fine thanks to storing them in Asda sealable sandwich boxes.
My seventy hp Johnson started second turn after some tweking with wd40 and other sprays.
My battery is a gonner and my life jackets exploded.

The RNLI chap said I couldn't save your petrol tank, it floated off , swam after it but it was just faster than me

In a storm!

Those lads are just amazing.

Now thats what I call lucky :confused: I think.

Glass half full.
 
Give the lottery a miss this week Alan, lucky and unlucky at the same time but look on the bright side mate :) it could have been much much worse ;)
 
could have been bye bye boat/engine /electrics the whole kit and kabooble gone:(:(

ps have you got a boat on both coasts:question:
 
"Well there was a bit of a storm up here,conditions were shocking. It seems the mooring rope wraped round the aux engine rolled the boat and it filled up and went down. Luckly the chaps from the RNLI were near by training, they worked for 5 hours to get your boat refloated. Its ok now, but I will have to charge you because its on a pontoon "

in the words of python " you lucky lucky ba...."

well done the RLNI

may be a siily question but .....just interested, what's the charge for ?
 
I'm taking the view I was very very lucky.

95% of the boat and all my kit is in good working order.

I'm dropping the beers / single malt in this weekend, they said to leave it until they had had their inspection this week.

The boat in Sunderland I gave to my dad because he always promised himself one but he would never commit to buying one. However he is totally hooked now and is torn between buying a Riever/Elite/Warrior and selling the boat I gave him.

Only trouble is the boat I gave him as a prezzi is ok and does it's job well.

The Harbour Master at Girvan was joking, I think, about charging for the pontoon, because thats where the RNLI put the boat after saving it.

Thanks to Chris who helped fit the outboard.

It's took my dad a season to get to grips with the Garmin GPS.

He is over the moon now he can use it.

The fishing here is much better than off Girvan. I love the North East for fishing I think it's great.

Thanks chaps for all the positive comments.

:red::D

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Ankle-Biter said:
I'm taking the view I was very very lucky.

95% of the boat and all my kit is in good working order.

I'm dropping the beers / single malt in this weekend, they said to leave it until they had had their inspection this week.

The boat in Sunderland I gave to my dad because he always promised himself one but he would never commit to buying one. However he is totally hooked now and is torn between buying a Riever/Elite/Warrior and selling the boat I gave him.

Only trouble is the boat I gave him as a prezzi is ok and does it's job well.

Thanks to Chris who helped fit the outboard.

It's took my dad a season to get to grips with the Garmin GPS.

He is over the moon now he can use it.

The fishing here is much better than off Girvan. I love the North East for fishing I think it's great.

(Thanks chaps for all the positive comments.)

:red::D
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as ye sow so shall ye reap:exclam::exclam:
 
Hope your dads not using that GPS to plunder my favorite marks Alan :D:D, only joking ;). He's cerainly into it and is doing well with the catches....great to see...:):)
 
You haven't lived until you get that "Yer boat's sunk call". Try refloating a 48 foot , 23 tonner full of holes, with a hose pipe, 128 Happy 50th birthday ballons, some bog roll and a big stick. Thought all boats sank once in a while :D
 
it's a mobile dwelling deployment area, beach front,.......etc etc

i live kinda near it....

you may know it by a different name tho...
 

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