A RATHER EMBARRASING MOMENT, LOL

This morning my mate, Cptn Rodders invited me down to the lake at fleetwood for a sail with his new build steam ( electric driven) trawler Akranes.

I had to take my daughter to the doc's as she'd had a bad asthma attack at the weekend, hospitalising her and so was an hour late.

he'd only just lifted it out the water, but said I could have a play with her ( the trawler)........she sailed beautifully until I brought her round for a last pass by, and noticed she was moving slowly, and said I thought the battery was going, and so took a photo of it with my phone cam.

When I looked up her decks were awash, and she was going down by the stern.............. and at that I jumped in the lake fully clothed to retreive her.

all my mate could do was wet himself laughing, and make the remark......"No b*****y wonder there are so many fleetwood trawler wrecks around with x****** incompetant skippers like you around"

now anyone else had an embarrasing moment this weekend,


Sadly gowing down by the stern...even the real ship didn't suffer that ignominious end...she was sold to a fishing company in Rangoon , Burma, in 1929 and not scrapped until the late 1950's

one question where did all the water come in from, up the shaft?

no matey.........he'd put a reverse combing onto the superstucture that slips down into the hull, rather than one sitting proud of the deck..this was done because of the very little space to get into the hull....it took a pratt like me to not ask this, and i sailed it though some rough weather, not realising that every wave over the deck was actually flooding the poor thing............my fault entirely......derrhhhhh.

Na mate not your fault, his... after all you didn't build the boat, and you didn't get warned that she can't take rough water.. he was stood next to you right and didnt say anything?

The words ''Rodney you plonker'' spring to mind