Post by Dave.S on Jun 5, 2009 23:49:24 GMT
Hi all
Thought I would report on my experience of last week-end.
My mate an I went out in the old girl from Poole as normal and headed for Pool Patch. We were in a 2 day species comp so due to the lumpy sea first thing we kept inshore to minimise the swell.
Got to the mark, down went the pick and we started fishing.
After a couple of hours I could here this knocking noise from the out-drive as if it had not locked down as was lifting in the swell.
To cut a long story short I soon discovered that the steering arm/shaft to the out-drive had failed.
What to do, I had heard on the radio that a boat had capsized near Mudeford and a speed boat had hit Bournemouth pier so it was already a busy time for the RNLI.
Anyway I decided to call the Coastguard just to advise them of my situation and then put a call out for a club boat to give me a tow back to Poole.
After the chat with the Coastguard within 20mins I had an inshore RNLI boat willing to tow me back. This I gratefully accepted but the embarrassing bit is my moorings are owned by the RNLI and we had been chatting to the crew as we set off to row to the boat on the mooring.
Still I felt it was better to safe than sorry and whilst we had our fishing day cut short, I was grateful for the tow back in as to run back into Poole with all the idiots going everywhere if I was using my auxiliary engine would have been a nightmare.
Anyway when one thing goes wrong there is normally other things that happen as well, so as I say an experience I don't want to repeat but grateful that the RNLI were there.
Dave
Thought I would report on my experience of last week-end.
My mate an I went out in the old girl from Poole as normal and headed for Pool Patch. We were in a 2 day species comp so due to the lumpy sea first thing we kept inshore to minimise the swell.
Got to the mark, down went the pick and we started fishing.
After a couple of hours I could here this knocking noise from the out-drive as if it had not locked down as was lifting in the swell.
To cut a long story short I soon discovered that the steering arm/shaft to the out-drive had failed.
What to do, I had heard on the radio that a boat had capsized near Mudeford and a speed boat had hit Bournemouth pier so it was already a busy time for the RNLI.
Anyway I decided to call the Coastguard just to advise them of my situation and then put a call out for a club boat to give me a tow back to Poole.
After the chat with the Coastguard within 20mins I had an inshore RNLI boat willing to tow me back. This I gratefully accepted but the embarrassing bit is my moorings are owned by the RNLI and we had been chatting to the crew as we set off to row to the boat on the mooring.
Still I felt it was better to safe than sorry and whilst we had our fishing day cut short, I was grateful for the tow back in as to run back into Poole with all the idiots going everywhere if I was using my auxiliary engine would have been a nightmare.
Anyway when one thing goes wrong there is normally other things that happen as well, so as I say an experience I don't want to repeat but grateful that the RNLI were there.
Dave
