Big thank you to VN6KC
Submitted by Walfootrot on Mon, 2015-12-28 07:38
Just want to thank the guys at Rockingham sea rescue for the tow back to Palm beach. Fishing 32k out, heading home and lost steering, thrown about the boat as the motor went hard to port. Nice gash to my leg. Thanks to John for your help too, great mate. Now time to replace the cable. The sea rescue boys do a great job. Donation made.
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More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Auslobster
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Good result....
...well done to sea rescue.
Would it have been possible to disengage the motor from the steering assembly/cable and use a bit of rope as a makeshift tiller? Obviously low revs/slow speed required, due to the prop pulling to one side, but it's another way to get home, and at trolling speed!
dodgy
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Yep. Done that before. Was a
Yep. Done that before. Was a long afternoon.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
hezzy
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yes , had to do the same as
yes , had to do the same as dodgey ,
rig up a rope steering through the motor to both sides of the back transom cleats when the steering cable broke about 9nm of gracetown , then my son stood there and manually moved it back & forth to steer
was able to cruise at about 8 knots , any faster and she was way too twitchy ,
got us home ok , but is slow
hezzy
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little johnny
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That's what you get
When decky takes bananas in lunch box.son or no son throw them over. Lol. Glad you got home okay all good.:):):):)
uncle
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Same problem years ago
Tired the gaff to the motor as a tiller.slow trip in from 15 miles out
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Walfootrot
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30k out and Adam asked if I
30k out and Adam asked if I wanted a banana... No Dhus and a broken cable
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Willlo
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lol uncle we used a frypan
lol uncle we used a frypan once
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carnarvonite
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Yacht
We had a call from a yacht down at Turtle Bay wanting us to come down and tow them to Carnarvon. The rudder had fallen off.
They could sail but not steer, suggested bunching up a heap of rags and tying them on a long rope to trail behind them and if they wanted to turn to port then secure the rope on the port side and vice versa if wanting to go to starboard. Took them a while to make it to town and only needed a short town in instead of a 70nm one.
Rob H
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jury rigging
Its a skill that any yatchy should know/be capable of before venturing far afield.
Streaming a warp for steering or holding head to weather, jury rigged sails etc
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
carnarvonite
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Experience
Trouble is that a lot of the ones we get just don't have that experience. Would like ten bucks for each one that calls up for us to tow them into the Fascine or boat harbour because their motor has just that moment decided to not go, the excuses are beauties that we have heard many times but they think we believe them.
groverwa
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Sea anchor
The sea anchor can be used to steer also but too much speed can result in it being shredded which happened during a sea rescue demo of the technique
carnarvonite
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Small Drogues
Our two rescue boats each carry a small drogue/ sea anchor for use when towing boats with a big following sea . It stops the boat being towed surfing and prevents it from broaching