What are your worst fear sailing events

[donradcliffe]

Getting caught by pirates and spending 2 years in a hut while they negotiate my ransom.

[Hardhead]

Originally Posted by donradcliffe

Getting caught by pirates and spending 2 years in a hut while they negotiate my ransom.

Time honored tradition actually. Not that I'm for it...

[barnakiel]

Loosing a crew overboard.


Falling overboard, if sailing with a crew.


b.

[Elvin]

Originally Posted by Rucksta

Worst fear - becoming to feeble to sail.

Poisoned food provisions, which caused just that. Been too feeble to saio for over a year. Watching my boat go derelict. Can't even remember how to start the diesel.

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by SVPP

Waking up and finding that a child is missing

That is definitely mine too.

[Fore and Aft]

The wife asking for all the receipts for what I have spent on the yacht.
Cheers

[SaltyMetals]

Ref my earlier post about a clever little PLB. I reckon that this is much better for seas where there are plenty of other boats, rather than the EPIRB type. After all, if it is sending out DSC and AIS a nearby boat is sure to come to the rescue. OK, for water sailing">Blue Water sailing across the oceans it needs an EPIRB-type.

This is the AIS+DSC model that i have (but fortunately have not had to use it (yet....)

https://www.oceansafety.com/product-...an-signal-mob1

Andrew

[chrisr]

Originally Posted by Fore and Aft

The wife asking for all the receipts for what I have spent on the yacht.
Cheers

hahaha...

on a similar vein, one of my worst fears happened a while ago. wifey is a PRO (principal race officer)...we can honking in for the perfect gun start...boat end...right on stern of starting boat...hot fleet of abt 30 boats...clear air...full speed

literally 1-2 seconds before the start , there is a piecing shout across the fleet from the start boat..."YOU'VE GOT A NEW BLOODY HEADSAIL !"

she had me bang to rights...all i could think of was "NO, IT'S A WEEK OLD...YOU DIDN'T SEE IT LAST WEEK"

that's when the fight started...

cheers,

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Elvin

Poisoned food provisions, which caused just that. Been too feeble to saio for over a year. Watching my boat go derelict. Can't even remember how to start the diesel.

What happened here??

Can you tell us about it?

[Elvin]

Originally Posted by Chotu

What happened here??

Can you tell us about it?

As a retirement project, I built a sailboat at my beach house, moved it to a boat yard and outfitted it. around 2017, the work stalled. I became lethargic and spent all my time socializing. The boat yard finally evicted me as I wasn't doing anything but tying up the work dock. A few miles out, my depth perception and peripheral vision went out. I became paranoid and drove out of the channel to ground her. My son hopped a passing boat and abandoned me, going home to throw up and go paranoid.


The coast guard towed me to an anchorage, but it was too shallow to get in. My boat is deep draft blue water, not at home in shallow Texas waters. I spent a night mare 4 months in swift currents on the edge of the super busy Galveston ship channel. Sailboaters came by to help, but left in dismay. The coast guard escorted me to two different docks, but the owners complained and refused to rent. My son finally negotiated a specially dredged tug boat dock. My boat has been there in total neglect while I get medical care, including brain tumor surgery.


Rats got into the boat, so we took all the food back to my wife. We forgot one box of oats. The rats ate it and carried some back to the nest. The entire rat population disappeared from the tugboat yard.


My wife tried to poison me 5 more times, 2 of them successful, before we finally realized what was going on. My online books were totally corrupted. All my passwords changed i.e cyber terrorism covering up the theft of well over half a million dollars.


She also shut down our company and is doing business under another company name. I'm too mentally weak to do much about it. I just want to take what I have left and sail away, as soon as I get my brain working again.

[bgallinger]

Being run over by wild illiterate power boat drivers on the ICW.

[skipper53]

Worst fear is sitting in a nursing home, drooling and dribbling, WISHING I could get back to the boat....

[Hardhead]

Originally Posted by SaltyMetals

Ref my earlier post about a clever little PLB. I reckon that this is much better for seas where there are plenty of other boats, rather than the EPIRB type. After all, if it is sending out DSC and AIS a nearby boat is sure to come to the rescue. OK, for Blue Water sailing across the oceans it needs an EPIRB-type.

This is the AIS+DSC model that i have (but fortunately have not had to use it (yet....)

https://www.oceansafety.com/product-...an-signal-mob1

Andrew

I'm surprised this is not more widely used. Is stands to reason that you have the best chance of being rescued from the boat nearest you, i.e. the one you 1st fell off of.

Being able to get an accurate fix and bearing on a MOB would be invaluable. Even with someone immediately hitting the MOB waypoint on the GPS - you still can't really account for subsequent drift and visibility in waves. I'd imagine it's incredibly easy to visually miss a MOB floating in the trough of a wave - and continue searching on. With a beacon transmitting, a searcher would likely know to keep looking in the right area. If I had any need, I'd look into getting one.

[ramblinrod]

Fear: Treading water, watching my lovely sailboat heading away toward the horizon.

Solution: Always use a tether if remaining crew are not likely able to effect a successful MOB retrieval.

[Group9]

Originally Posted by ramblinrod

Fear: Treading water, watching my lovely sailboat heading away toward the horizon.

Solution: Always use a tether if remaining crew are not likely able to effect a successful MOB retrieval.

I use a tether religiously, when I am single handing, or in the cockpit alone, with a sleeping partner. When you do that, there is no fear of falling overboard!