windows do break

[codpiece]

Just to give you all a smile for the weekend, I have just managed to back my Orkney through a front picture window on my bungallow. Any more ''bloomers'' out there? Tight lines Derek.

[Paul J]

I think thats a new one for our long list of cockups Derek

 

Thanks for adding to our experience it's duly logged for prosperity

 

PJ

[Sinbad]

Lovely morning for doing a few repairs out on the swinging mooring, so down to the boat park first thing this morning.

 

Unloaded all the gear from the car, including two batteries, the battery well from the boat, a heapful of useful tools, the inflatable accesories, oars, seat, foot pump, spare fuel, outboard motor....

 

then went and got the dinghy from the rack, looked a bit floppy so after pumping it up a little, loaded all the gear into it and just for good measure, put the lifejacket on. ran the car back to the car park so it wasnt blocking anyone in.

 

By this time I was getting a bit hot and bothered in the warm sunshine. And the tide was super low, so low infact the slipway was aptly named, with the end of the concrete in sight and the rest a mixture of weed and mud, then the water 6" below.

 

Wheeled the dinghy very gently down the slip, lovely morning, sun glinting off the water, and just at the end of the concrete, one little push to get the wheels into the drink, and

 

PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSWEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!

 

 

Oh F$$$%%^ and bother...

 

the dinghy went straight onto a bit of reinforcing steel sticking up throught the mud.

 

I've never been able to deflate the sodding thing as fast as it did this morning. So after a few tears, did most of the above unloading in reverse with a now very muddy and floppy bit of plastic rolled up and stuffed into the car.

 

the "irony" of the whole event was I'd just brought it down to the rack after repairing a leak last week.....

 

Your not alone Derek

Paul

[codpiece]

Comiserations Paul

[Paul D]

Today helped a women who had reversed down Wick Slipway in her Merc Estate and then went far enough back to put the rear wheels of the car over the dropoff at the end of the slipway.

 

Low water with the tide coming in.

 

One car helped to tow her out whilst tow of us pushed the car which fortunately got out - just. The water by now was level with the top of the bumper. 10 mins later and I think her boo would have been soaked.

 

very lucky escape in my opinion.

 

[Rob]

 

Another Berk in a Merc!!!!!

 

 

[Bob F]

That made me titter, Paul (sinbad).

 

 

[codpiece]

 

 

I think her boo would have been soaked.

 

Paul I would have paid good money to see that. derek.