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jmorrical
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Initially Posted - 11/16/2006 :  13:07:02  Show Profile
A friend sent this clip to me. I just had to pass it along. Some of these things have happend to me. How about you?

It's a good laugh. Enjoy.

http://luizmajo.multiply.com/video/item/100
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stampeder
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Response Posted - 11/16/2006 :  22:06:59  Show Profile
Would this be a bad time to admit that I fell in the water twice this season?
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 11/16/2006 :  22:34:36  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
That was fun....to watch. A pretty good laugh at 1130pm on a workday !
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  08:19:03  Show Profile
Turn off the silly music and it loses some of its charm--some of those people got hurt, and a few of them could have been badly hurt. I was grimacing more than smiling...
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  09:34:09  Show Profile
There's a thin line between slapstick humor and real injury. I laughed when someone just took an unexpected swim, and winced when it looked like someone might have been hurt. The music does blur the line. In any event, the video is well worth watching. It shows how small lapses in care cause big problems.

For example, many of the incidents happened when someone tried to either board or step off a boat that wasn't secured to the dock, and the boat moved away. If people stayed on the boat, or refrained from boarding it, until someone secured it well enough so that it couldn't move away, many of those incidents wouldn't have happened. Airline pilots tell passengers to remain seated until the plane comes to a complete stop. Maybe skippers should caution inexperienced passengers to remain seated until the boat is secured to the dock. Inexperienced passengers wouldn't be aware of all the hazards of boating, but an experienced skipper should anticipate them, and should alert his passengers to them.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  13:15:36  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
My standard instruction to people is, "pick where you want to end up, do not stop anywhere between where to start from and where you have chosen to end up. Moving on boats on and around boats is about fluid motion that does not stop until you are where you intend to end up." Several of those spills would not have happened if they had simply kept going. Also notice how many people got pulled in, I don't offer a hand unless I know I cannot be pulled in, when you get a hand from me, you will land where you are supposed to.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  16:28:27  Show Profile
Another tip I give to people boarding a boat with lifelines (if there isn't an open gate) is to step on the rail with <i>both feet outside the lifeline</i>, and <i>then </i>step over it into the boat. The reverse getting off--step over the lifeline onto the rail with <i>both feet </i>(holding onto something) and <i>then </i>step down to the dock or whatever. A friend on another C-25 didn't do that, fell in between the boat and the dock as the boat was arriving at the dock, and amost got crushed! (She did wreck her shoulder.) That's why I wince at those videos.

Oh, that reminds me--no jumping off until the boat is stopped, and no fending off with feet. If I hit something, I hit it, but I don't want a leg or a body in the way!
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oldsalt
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  18:01:19  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by stampeder</i>
<br />Would this be a bad time to admit that I fell in the water twice this season?
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If you've never fallen in the drink or run aground, you've not been sailing very long.

Mark <font size="3">"Admiral Emeritus"</font id="size3">
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 11/17/2006 :  21:22:31  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i>
<br />Another tip I give to people boarding a boat with lifelines (if there isn't an open gate) is to step on the rail with <i>both feet outside the lifeline</i>, and <i>then </i>step over it into the boat. The reverse getting off--step over the lifeline onto the rail with <i>both feet </i>(holding onto something) and <i>then </i>step down to the dock or whatever. A friend on another C-25 didn't do that, fell in between the boat and the dock as the boat was arriving at the dock, and amost got crushed! (She did wreck her shoulder.) That's why I wince at those videos.

Oh, that reminds me--no jumping off until the boat is stopped, and no fending off with feet. If I hit something, I hit it, but I don't want a leg or a body in the way!
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ditto
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