rotto swim - how did you go?
Submitted by pelagicyachts on Mon, 2018-02-26 11:13
better than this poor guy I hope - we were not that close (max zoom on the phone!) but seemed to happen real quick and the conditions were not that bad - my guess would be it was taking on water unknown to them and the wave over the back just finished them off
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randall df223
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I think this was the boat
I think this was the boat the set off a flare?
Good lesson there.
When in vicinity of lots of boats and its daytime, do not set off a parachute flare.
We heard the radio call and saw the flare but had no way of telling which boat iut had come from.
Another vessel sunk up in fron of us as well, and a swimmer got hit by a propellor.
And then there was all the complaining on the radio about swimmers being ordered from the water. Some people need to understand its a public open channel used by to race control, not for general chit chat, not for calling each other goose. Although there were plenty.
Our swimmer did a PB time. Previously it was 7hr 18 min. Saturday he did 6hr 44min. So very happy.
I spent the first half of the race in reverse trying to slow the boat drift and in the second half barely in forward only to correct the course.
And if the gentleman who was in out mooring space had have just said give us a couple of minutes, we will be out of your way... i would have said no problems. Unfortunately he lost me at, "why cant you just jump on that spare mooring for a while?
Fish! HARD!
pelagicyachts
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haha (to the guy who lost it
haha (to the guy who lost it not the guy who ate the prop!) yeah its a long day and some people handle it better than others!
Our guys did well - wanted to kick on till midnight at the pub ...... 7.30 one of them was asleep and the others piked at 8.30!
sunshine
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Did I read correctly...........you were in reverse?
Has the race briefing changed
randall df223
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You can use reverse to stop
You can use reverse to stop forward motion. You cant make way stern. They relaxed that a couple of years ago.
Fish! HARD!
Tom M
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I understood it was to stop
I understood it was to stop to prevent an incident, Expect to hear more definition for next years event.
Tom M
Starbug
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You are alowed to select
You are alowed to select reverse to slow the vessel or to stop..... you just cant have the vessel travel backwards.
Paj man
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First year
First year for me and everyone on my team - old man was skippering my boat so was a first for him too. Was our paddler's first time too. Conditions kept everyone on our toes but didn't have any significant dramas.
Got pulled out of the water as a result of the shark sighting at the 12.5km mark, we drifted for about a km trying to figure out what was happening and ended up jumping back in and finishing the race. Had a couple of beers and then cruised back with the missus at about 6pm in beautiful conditions.
I thought that sea rescure asked the boat to set a flare off so they could help locate them? It was hard to understand who was talking there was that much chit chat though. From the reports it seems there was an acces made close to the water line for people with disabilities and a big bit of chop surged and flooded the deck.
aka Nick
randall df223
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That wasthe other boat that
That wasthe other boat that we passed. (After it had turned over).
My point was if you are going to set off a flare in those circumstances, use a hand held smoke flare, not a parachute!
Fish! HARD!
randall df223
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This had the wheel chair access
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resurgence
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Our first time as well
Not as chaotic as I thought it may have been.
Echo the comments above about the confusion on the radio after the shark exclusion zone was called. Could have been better communicated by the race officials but mostly it was made confusing by impatient clowns who couldn't stay off the radio for two minutes to allow a proper message to be sent. I had a bit of a chuckle at the guy who, in the midst of several engine failure problems, and chasing a spurious EPIRB signal, radioed sea rescue to have a seasick person transferred to shore.
Not entirely surprising that a boat ran into difficulties. Not that conditions were that bad, but I could see with a stiff easterly and skippers trying to keep their boat pointed in the swim direction that swamping was a risk. We had the transom door opened for a while to allow easy access/egress (although being a large boat we were transfering swimmers with the tender), and a few times we had 3-4 inches of water throughout the cockpit.
Turned out there were plenty of spare moorings available in Thomsons; I thought we'd end up way down the south end but managed a mooring not far from the pub jetty (our usual mooring was being used to mark the finish lane).
clayd
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We were a few hundred meters
We were a few hundred meters from the 12km mark and got pulled out. We were last off the beach at 7:35am and i think we were out of the water about 10:15am. We were making pretty good time, so disappointed we didn't get to finish.
In my opinion, the shark incident was handled well. The RCSA followed the shark protocol exactly as they had told everyone, so it was pretty clear to me what to do and what was happening. It's those people who didn't take the time to understand the protocol who created the chaos. To be fair though, there were some ripper comments that had everyone onboard laughing, but then it became bit of a circus and dangerous if there was an emergency.
Overall, disappointed we didn't finish, but feel RCSA made the right call. Only suggestion would be to allow boats affected to mark their position and return to the water 30 mins after last sighting - if they dare.
Josh
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Our solo finished on 6 18
Our solo finished on 6 18 first time over.
We almost got hit a couole of times in the staging area, with one lady trying to avoid a collision by leaninl onto my vhf whip.
The swimmer also almost got run over about the 16km mark by a boat spinnins around and opening it right up mid Channel, then abused us for shouting at him.
I feel like that's the first and last skippering I will do, unless itsi a reallr good mate, or a great bit of coin.
Finished the day off by stepping onto a broken bottle while anchoring in Thompson's
So not the best day for us!
I did meet a girl at the nursing post who ripped out her finger nail getting out of the water mid swim , but kept swimming while bleeding could be shark bait
randall df223
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I heard tbe radio call for
I heard tbe radio call for that finger nail. Haha. It sounded first up like someone was asking for medical assistance for a broken nail
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