JennyMorgan Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Be warned, Oulton Week starts this weekend! Loads of boats, without engines! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetAnne Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Sounds perfect for Royal Tudor 2 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 5 hours ago, JennyMorgan said: Be warned, Oulton Week starts this weekend! Loads of boats, without engines! I hope that you will get out on the water Peter with your camera. I really enjoyed what you captured last year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea14Ian Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Have been there before,not realising that this was happening. All you got see was sails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 17, 2019 Author Share Posted August 17, 2019 15 minutes ago, Chelsea14Ian said: All you got to see was sails. Just how it should be! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxwellian Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 10 hours ago, JanetAnne said: Sounds perfect for Royal Tudor Naughty..... Hilarious but Naughty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Timbo Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I'm looking forward to it! So if If RT hugs one bank and the boat towing her hugs the other, we should be OK? How long was that steel cable you wanted me to buy Dave? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 There is no truth in the rumour that RT is joining the Hunters Fleet? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 about as much as the rumor Tims buying a quant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 I have a spare one he can borrow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrundallNavy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 18 minutes ago, grendel said: about as much as the rumor Tims buying a quant. He’s already got one it’s called a dipstick 🤓 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Warp tells me that they had 4m waves on the Fastnet, hopefully Oulton Broad won’t be that lumpy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptinKev Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Typical, flappies…..every stinkies nightmare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 6 hours ago, brundallNavy said: He’s already got one it’s called a dipstick 🤓 The flappies have one of those too, normally holding the tiller..... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxwellian Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 8 hours ago, brundallNavy said: He’s already got one it’s called a dipstick 🤓 Did you mean he has got a dipstick or he is a dipstick? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 17, 2019 Author Share Posted August 17, 2019 5 hours ago, Polly said: Warp tells me that they had 4m waves on the Fastnet, hopefully Oulton Broad won’t be that lumpy! It was pretty rough this morning! I was out shadowing the Fastnet aboard a Hurley 22 in 1979, that really was rough. Oulton Broad has never been like that! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 A 22 footer would be challenging to say the least. Especially that year. I was camping on the Welsh coast and had never experienced a wind like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 The Hurley 22 is an exceptional sea-boat for its size and being short drops into troughs quite readily rather than fighting the waves. The Cowes lifeboat lay alongside of us for ten minutes or so before departing with the comment 'you obviously know what you are doing'! It wasn't until a day or two later when we went ashore in the trots at Cowes that we realised that a tragedy had occurred. Until then we had just regarded it as an exciting experience. There were people wandering around Cowes in an absolute daze. A cousin of mine had had a really rough time of it in a competitor boat. We weren't racing thus were reefed and certainly weren't pushing it although we were still sailing to windward and didn't feel a need to heave-too , after all it was a sailing school boat and I was supposed to be teaching seamanship! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 A friend had a Hurley 22 it was indeed a capable boat. We fled for our lives inland, abandoning the tents, there were three of us ladies and five children under 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDTRIPLE Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 9 hours ago, Polly said: A 22 footer would be challenging to say the least. Especially that year. I was camping on the Welsh coast and had never experienced a wind like it. Go and have a Vindaloo from the Raj in Loddon, and make sure you`ve got a bath of iced water in the morning? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDTRIPLE Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 1 hour ago, JennyMorgan said: The Hurley 22 is an exceptional sea-boat for its size and being short drops into troughs quite readily rather than fighting the waves. The Cowes lifeboat lay alongside of us for ten minutes or so before departing with the comment 'you obviously know what you are doing'! It wasn't until a day or two later when we went ashore in the trots at Cowes that we realised that a tragedy had occurred. Until then we had just regarded it as an exciting experience. There were people wandering around Cowes in an absolute daze. A cousin of mine had had a really rough time of it in a competitor boat. We weren't racing thus were reefed and certainly weren't pushing it although we were still sailing to windward and didn't feel a need to heave-too , after all it was a sailing school boat and I was supposed to be teaching seamanship! I remember reading an article in one of the monthly yachting mags which reported that every soul that lost their lives came from boats that were still floating, albeit in a real mess, after the storm died down. The age old saying is "never step DOWN into a liferaft, always CLIMB INTO it" They also reported that a surprising number of competitors were very inexperienced, something that was born out by the sheer number of people in liferafts while their boats were still afloat, again, the old saying applies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 1 hour ago, SPEEDTRIPLE said: They also reported that a surprising number of competitors were very inexperienced, something that was born out by the sheer number of people in liferafts while their boats were still afloat, again, the old saying applies. Some things never change. For example this week is, as I've said, is Oulton Week. One hugely expensive boat has lay at her moorings all summer, she will probably only race this week before being laid up for the winter. Her owner is on holiday. It was no different on the South Coast back in the 1970's. Cowes Week, Henley regatta, Ascot, all part of 'the season', social/sporting must attend events. I never ceased to be amazed at the lack of experience of some owners. Nearer home watching the antics of some of the big boats coming through the Lock at Oulton Broad can be highly entertaining, if you can tolerate the scream of tortured bow thrusters and crunched gel! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Yes the safety aspects of the Fastnet are beefy now. Everyone has to have epirb on life jackets; all boats had to have AIS and VHF, all things that were not compulsory in 79. Also you have to qualify with hours day and night and perform well in qualifying races. This year big winds were coming in after most of the field had finished, it was a couple of old Westerly type boats still out there. Eventually they motored in all but one that managed to sail ahed of the gale. Dave thinks they probably sent a helicopter out to advise them to quit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 1979 and radios on yachts were probably still in a minority let alone compulsory for all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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