Capsized At Oulton?

[Vaughan]

A report in todays EDP says that two people were rescued from a capsized boat in the Oulton Broad (sic) at 3PM yesterday.  It seems no less than 4 fire appliances attended but were stood down when the people were rescued by the Broads Authority.

It seems strange that a capsize on Oulton Broad on a Saturday afternoon should attract such a turnout, when the WOBYC would have been racing, and have their own rescue boats for capsizes, which are frequent and common.  Or was this not a sailing dinghy?

What a pity Jenny Morgan has decided to leave us, as he would be bound to know. He always used to keep us up to date with the local news.

[Hylander]

You never know Vaughan , he may pop in and give us the nod as to what actually happened.   

 

  http://www.alerter.co.uk/normanshurst/shouts/index.php  

 

 

[LizG]

He has responded on one of the Broads related FB pages with regard to this incident.  It was I believe a Wayfarer!

[Vaughan]

Bizarre.

I suppose the BA will now classify this as a "drowning near-miss"!

[Broads01]

I didn't know JM had left, I'm sorry to hear that.

[marshman]

When I was a mere lad, my first boat was an Enterprise and we all know they can be a bit tippy!! Especially compared to lugsail dinghies!!!!

I launched at a yard in Brundall, where I was pretty well known, and on my first outing, solo as well, I had not gone 50 yds before I was dunked in the water before a grandstand audience!! Did the P & H Commissioners come to my rescue - no they would have been tucked up in their corner  off Bargate!!! Did anyone from the yard do anything other than shout encouragement from the shore?

To be fair I was wearing my brand new buoyancy aid - you know the yellow ones that laced up the front, and with a bit of encouragement and a few shouted, but contradictory instructions, managed to do the right thing and get it upright. I bailed like b*****y and paddled ashore to cheers from the boys . 

After that I was a bit more careful and rather than trying to impress onlookers, managed to make the right decisions and rarely capsized again, except once in a race off Hayling Island and then much later in a cat off Turkey from the trapeze, gracefully flying around the front of the boat attached to the trapeze wire when the skipper carelessly buried the leeward hull in a big wave!!!

No one rescued me either time but I did learn a thing or two!!!! I always thought a premature dunking was part of the learning curve in a dinghy!!!

[annv]

Hi Vaughan Perhaps it was a nice day and a good excuse  not to wash the engines down and have a away day instead. John

[Vaughan]

1 hour ago, marshman said:

No one rescued me either time but I did learn a thing or two!!!! I always thought a premature dunking was part of the learning curve in a dinghy!!!

I can count myself one of the few to have capsized in a Norfolk Dinghy.  Said to be impossible but I managed it right in front of the committee wherry at the start of a race in Barton Regatta. I am told there was a loud round of applause but I was under the sail at the time, trying to find my way out of it.  Strangely enough, if had been wearing a lifejacket I might not have been able to go down and "get out from under".

When Norfolks capsize, they sink.  A bit embarrassing, on Barton Broad!

[ChrisB]

4 hours ago, marshman said:

When I was a mere lad, my first boat was an Enterprise and we all know they can be a bit tippy!! Especially compared to lugsail dinghies!!!!

I launched at a yard in Brundall, where I was pretty well known, and on my first outing, solo as well, I had not gone 50 yds before I was dunked in the water before a grandstand audience!! Did the P & H Commissioners come to my rescue - no they would have been tucked up in their corner  off Bargate!!! Did anyone from the yard do anything other than shout encouragement from the shore?

To be fair I was wearing my brand new buoyancy aid - you know the yellow ones that laced up the front, and with a bit of encouragement and a few shouted, but contradictory instructions, managed to do the right thing and get it upright. I bailed like b*****y and paddled ashore to cheers from the boys . 

After that I was a bit more careful and rather than trying to impress onlookers, managed to make the right decisions and rarely capsized again, except once in a race off Hayling Island and then much later in a cat off Turkey from the trapeze, gracefully flying around the front of the boat attached to the trapeze wire when the skipper carelessly buried the leeward hull in a big wave!!!

No one rescued me either time but I did learn a thing or two!!!! I always thought a premature dunking was part of the learning curve in a dinghy!!!

In The Med, Was it  HobiCat? They just don't have enough buoyancy in the bow end of the hulls. I pitchpoled one off Le Lavandou when both hulls dug into a square wave which they often are in Le Golfe du Lion, it completely knocked the wind out of me, for a while I thought I was seriously injured.

[Turnoar]

I capsized an e-box once, didn’t impress the female crew but I ended up buying it, thereafter never capsized single handed but did a couple more times, once caught by a gust and novice crew fell leeward, another time when competing e-box on port tack wedged between my rudder and transom, boom hit water, another wet female crew albeit a different one. Comparing the bow and side bags of the e-box with the four copper tanks of a NOD I’m not surprised it sank, about 50% light. If a buoyant aid was being worn in the days of wherry committee boats I wonder would it have been made of corks?

[Turnoar]

39 minutes ago, ChrisB said:

In The Med, Was it  HobiCat? They just don't have enough buoyancy in the bow end of the hulls. I pitchpoled one off Le Lavandou when both hulls dug into a square wave which they often are in Le Golfe du Lion, it completely knocked the wind out of me, for a while I thought I was seriously injured.

Done the one hull dig in on a Dart many years ago on Hickling, the Shearwater felt much safer in comparison but not as quick. Both hulls at once does indeed sound scary, the Hobies I recall did have low hulls with the trampoline suspended above them, not surprised it would ditch!

[twowrights]

If it's the same incident, we were watching the Wherry Hotel webcam live and saw what seemed to be a power boat overturn,( it was in the distance in the image) sure it was Friday though. Their was a large crowd watching on the left behind the moorings. The escort boats were on the scene right away and towed the boat away. 

[Tobster]

There were some capsized boats during Thursday evenings powerboat racing, 1 x Formula 2 & and 1 x Rescue Boat.

due to the rescue boat capsize the racing was stopped an hour early.

I haven’t heard of anything capsized since.

[Vaughan]

11 hours ago, Turnoar said:

If a buoyant aid was being worn in the days of wherry committee boats I wonder would it have been made of corks?

They were indeed!  Hire boats were supplied with them and fenders were all of plaited coir rope.

Barton Regatta was a big event, and they used three wherries, anchored stem to stern near where the clubhouse now is, so that you could walk between them.  The committee boat on the left, where the races were started was always the Lord Roberts as she was about the only one with a mast still stepped.  The middle one had all the hatches off, with the bar laid out in the hold and the third one was full of Elsan toilets, suitably screened off for ladies and gents.  So you hoped that the wind was always in the south west!  There was a regular shuttle service to and from Barton Turf, usually supplied by Miles Simpson's big wooden day launches, from Stalham Yacht Station.

The racing on Sunday ended with a power boat race.  Imagine that nowadays, on Barton Broad!

[Vaughan]

I forgot, on the Saturday night there was always a big dance, with bar and barbecue, in Cox's boat sheds at Barton Turf.