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w1651 · 28-09-2011, 22:29

Never think I can make that time. You Can't.

Never clean the bottom with the engine running.

Don't head south with a northerly wind.

if you come out of your cabin to pee look to make sure your neighbors aren't eating breakfast in their cockpits.

And finally if you are peeing and look down to see a boat under yours and the captain looking up screaming at you: you anchored to close the night before.

Still Hopefull · 28-09-2011, 22:46

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Originally Posted by zeehag

do not piss off the owner.

i would think pissing on the owner would also be a mistake.......

A little life lesson there. It's better to be pissed off than pissed on

**hummingway** · 28-09-2011, 23:06

I don't know what it is this fellow did but I'm sure you're not supposed to do it. A friend told me today he was worked on a boat last week that the fellow had managed to get the anchor rode around his prop shaft. It then began acting like a thread and screwing it's way into the boat. The boat split badly.

I don't know how he did this but I suggest not doing what ever he did.

Nostrodamus · 28-09-2011, 23:22

Don't get cockroaches as pets

Nostrodamus · 28-09-2011, 23:31

I learn't very early on not to "speak loudly" to my wife otherwise she just goes below and gets a book out. When she is steering and next thing there is no one there you learn, very, very quickly not to do it again.

Nostrodamus · 28-09-2011, 23:33

Don't release the shore lines unless you know your boat won't be stuck in neutral

motion30 · 28-09-2011, 23:33

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Originally Posted by Nostrodamus

Ask an Amerian to sail more than 20 miles from the coast. They think the world ends there.

It doesnt?

Nostrodamus · 28-09-2011, 23:34

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Originally Posted by Nostrodamus

Don't release the shore lines unless you know your boat won't be stuck in neutral

Make sue all the shore lines are off when you do go

Nostrodamus · 28-09-2011, 23:37

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Originally Posted by motion30

It doesnt?

No, it ends just around the Solent in the uk. well 90% of British boats are trapped there.

motion30 · 28-09-2011, 23:39

never look UP at the radar when you have left a hatch open
can cause broken ribs and a colllapsed lung and a stay at the hospital errrr..... so I have heard