Blow boaters

mustang190

What's with them? Engine quits and it's over with. Columbus didn't have a engine neither did capt. Cook yet they sailed on.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/26/navy-rescues-2-americans-and-their-dogs-who-were-lost-sea-months/803593001/
A 40' sailboat washed up on the beach here yesterday after the coast guard plucked the crew off after their engine quit off Tampa, yet the sails were in working order.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/destin/20171025/phantom-boat-washed-ashore-in-sandestin-has-story-to-tell

Mister-Jr

Are you suggesting power boaters don't do dumb stuff?

Indigo

epirb

Demere

We called them WAFI’s. Wind Assisted F—-ing Idiots.

jbdba01

Yeah....not following that story. The sails were reefed (diff article).

No compass? No GPS? No EPIRB? No spot? No iReach? They can afford a "year's worth of food", but not decent electronics?

All they had to do was keep sailing due East or due West...for 2 months. :shrug

I'm curious to do hear "the rest of the story". Perhaps the helm/rudder broke.

Fletch

Demere wrote: »

We called them WAFI’s. Wind Assisted F—-ing Idiots.

I have a friend that calls them Whistle Pissers.

Blowboater: "Hey, how much is your diesel?"
Marina: "$4.00 per gallon"
<blowboater whistles>
Blowboater: "Can I use your head?

Then he steals all your toilet paper.

lakeman

Mister-Jr wrote: »

Are you suggesting power boaters don't do dumb stuff?

I agree, far too many "BOATERS" have no idea how to operated a boat or what to do in an emergency.

Demere

Fletch wrote: »

I have a friend that calls them Whistle Pissers.

Blowboater: "Hey, how much is your diesel?"
Marina: "$4.00 per gallon"
<blowboater whistles>
Blowboater: "Can I use your head?

Then he steals all your toilet paper.

We were staying in Walkers and came back to the dock to find a blowboater filling his boat with our hose. we made him pay for what he stole. Happened all the time. Blowboater shows up gets as much “free” stuff (anything not nailed down) as they could and left. PS I have great respect for true sailors. I’ve seen a sailor and crew put a 40’ plus boat in a slip on a windy day with no power - sail and lines only. There are some incredible sailors out there but way too many jerks.

Soda Popinski

Fletch wrote: »

I have a friend that calls them Whistle Pissers.

Blowboater: "Hey, how much is your diesel?"
Marina: "$4.00 per gallon"
<blowboater whistles>
Blowboater: "Can I use your head?

Then he steals all your toilet paper.

You and Demere have both made my morning

dragon bait

Demere wrote: »

We were staying in Walkers and came back to the dock to find a blowboater filling his boat with our hose. we made him pay for what he stole. Happened all the time. Blowboater shows up gets as much “free” stuff (anything not nailed down) as they could and left. PS I have great respect for true sailors. I’ve seen a sailor and crew put a 40’ plus boat in a slip on a windy day with no power - sail and lines only. There are some incredible sailors out there but way too many jerks.

Had more than a few power boats do the same,

mustang190

Fletch wrote: »

I have a friend that calls them Whistle Pissers.

Blowboater: "Hey, how much is your diesel?"
Marina: "$4.00 per gallon"
<blowboater whistles>
Blowboater: "Can I use your head?

Then he steals all your toilet paper.

Well, since the wind is free shouldn't everything else is free????

mustang190

Fletch wrote: »

I have a friend that calls them Whistle Pissers.

Blowboater: "Hey, how much is your diesel?"
Marina: "$4.00 per gallon"
<blowboater whistles>
Blowboater: "Can I use your head?

Then he steals all your toilet paper.

Mister-Jr wrote: »

Are you suggesting power boaters don't do dumb stuff?

When a power boat loses its power it's pretty obvious your dead on the water.
At least with a sailboat you have sails!

tankard

I learned more about the water and general seamanship from sailing than powerboating.

Just saying, if you start out sailing you should be ahead of the curve.

Resinhead

We pulled into Boat Harbour one afternoon after fishing and had a sailboat tied up in our slip using our lines. We had the closest slip to the pool area which was also next to the bathrooms/laundry. The lady on board said that they were just doing their laundry and they won't be too long. She couldn't run the boat so we would just have to wait and went below. My buddy jumped in his tender, untied their boat from our lines, hooked up a tow line and towed them out of the marina. He asked the lady if she knew how to drop the anchor and left her out there in front. I think I still have a video of that somewhere. She wasn't very happy. Amazingly enough she knew how to run the boat and tied up at the fuel dock. Her "partner" made it to the fuel dock and they left without making a peep. I've got a bunch of blow boat stories having fished tournaments in the Bahamas for 20 years.

Mister-Jr

Resinhead wrote: »

We pulled into Boat Harbour one afternoon after fishing and had a sailboat tied up in our slip using our lines. We had the closest slip to the pool area which was also next to the bathrooms/laundry. The lady on board said that they were just doing their laundry and they won't be too long. She couldn't run the boat so we would just have to wait and went below. My buddy jumped in his tender, untied their boat from our lines, hooked up a tow line and towed them out of the marina. He asked the lady if she knew how to drop the anchor and left her out there in front. I think I still have a video of that somewhere. She wasn't very happy. Amazingly enough she knew how to run the boat and tied up at the fuel dock. Her "partner" made it to the fuel dock and they left without making a peep. I've got a bunch of blow boat stories having fished tournaments in the Bahamas for 20 years.

Can you cross the Atlantic in your boat?

pottydoc

Can you make it from W st Palm to,West End in 1 1/2 in your blow bote? Can you outrun a storm heading at you at 20 mph? No one said it power boats were better, just commented on the seeming stupidity of a large number of sail boaters. Percentage wise, it dwarfs power boaters.

Mister-Jr

pottydoc wrote: »

Can you make it from W st Palm to,West End in 1 1/2 in your blow bote? Can you outrun a storm heading at you at 20 mph? No one said it power boats were gett r, just can't moments on the seeming stupidity of a large number of sail boaters. Percentage wise, it dwarfs power boaters.

Put it in gear and steer. :grin

Resinhead

So Jr is a blowboater too. :rotflmao

Oh my! You fit the stereotype perfectly!

[email protected] Special

OK a sailboater story.

Two college friends who were in the OE department with me got married in school and said they were going to work unitl they were 54 and quit and sail around the world.

One was chief pipeline engineer with Shell in the gulf, other was the Mars group leader at NASA.
They bought the boat right out of school and lived on it in a marina in Texas.

Sure enough, quit at 54, had the boat refurbished at Rybovich and began sailing about 9 years ago. First did the Eastern Caribbean and then North coast South America, on to the San Blas Islands for a while, crossed the canal, did Galapagos Islands they set sail to French Polynesian. Marques then Tahiti, and now they spend about 5 months here then back to the boat.

Living the dream!

Oh sailors??? Heck I learned more on that boat than i did in my 50 years of boating with powerboats. When they cross the pacific, they lost some rigging. Thats OK, they kept emailing me issues and we hunted down what they needed to have it shipped to Tahiti. No problem the NASA Engineer redesigned the broken rigging with parts on board and were sailing again and off engine in about three days.

Trust me these two will never be adrift!

You surfers would love the guy, he has a quiver of surfboards for any wave he might find on board the boat. Oh and two or three of everything from pumps to filters, to enough part to rebuild almost anything at sea,


Not all sail boaters are A holes!

Resinhead

Not all, but most of them that I've seen!

Mister-Jr

I was in Newport, RI last month with my wife and the harbor looked like a boat show. The most sailboats I have seen in any one place. This was at a restaurant at sunset, but it does't do justice to the number of boats.

Resinhead

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mplspug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkIuKXwmlU

I prefer Calgon

Resinhead

Mister-Jr wrote: »

Can you cross the Atlantic in your boat?

If a 21' flats boat can do it, mine certainly can but why? There's Jets for that.

Demere

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/sailboat-runs-aground-with-family-onboard-in-st-johns-county/630997257
Just saw this

Mister-Jr

Demere wrote: »

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/sailboat-runs-aground-with-family-onboard-in-st-johns-county/630997257
Just saw this

Well, that certainly proves something.

Resinhead

Resinhead wrote: »

Wife?

Cough cough

mustang190

And another one.
Nothing was wrong with the boat, yet the guy abandons it?

http://www.mypanhandle.com/news/mystery-of-the-beached-phantom-solved/845771969

mustang190

The problem I see with a lot of sailboat owners is they get in over their head. And are not prepared when the ---- hits the fan.
Or when the money runs out you still have a large vessel to maintain. I'm sure it's a problem all over Florida but up here the number of abandoned boats is unreal. A lot sink and have to be removed at taxpayer expense.

tankard

mustang190 wrote: »

The problem I see with a lot of sailboat owners is they get in over their head. And are not prepared when the ---- hits the fan.
Or when the money runs out you still have a large vessel to maintain. I'm sure it's a problem all over Florida but up here the number of abandoned boats is unreal. A lot sink and have to be removed at taxpayer expense.

This is very true.

You have to know every system on the vessel and be prepared to fix it yourself.

Demere

Mister-Jr wrote: »

Well, that certainly proves something.

Al lit proves is that a blowboater ran his boat into the beach with his family aboard ( he probably should learn some stuff like navigation, how to drop an anchor, etc). Look, I started sailing when I was a kid (probably 5 or 6). We started in Prams and as we got older we competed in Pelicans, Thistles and finally Stars. We spent lots of time on Cats as well. I've known many sailors who were absolutely amazing in those regattas. I've also known plenty of absolute jerks who ran sportfishers and other power boats (divers vs fishermen, etc). My experience is that way too many blowboaters are freeloading jerks. Makes me admire true sailors even more.