Nice early morning in Chichester
Man in the carpark: Could have sworn we sailed out of Chichester, how the hell can my car be in Haslar???
Who: Me
Where: Chichester marina car park
Current rating: : 6 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote)
Loading ... Commodore at the prizegiving after a 75 miles regatta:
“And the prize for the Best Navigator goes to Charles Thompson of “Sundowner” – pause accented by polite clapping – “who attempted to cross the finishing line at 2300hrs about 1 mile south of where the race information indicated it to be!” – Thunderous clapping and cheering!
Who: multihullsailor6
Where: Prizegiving at Mykonos Yacht Club, Langebaan, South Africa
Current rating: : 5 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Moscow yacht manager calls the crew at 21:00 (first time on the boat):
Manager: how are you there?
Crew: – fantastic! Sailing, swimming nonstop and so on!
Manager:- are you in marina?
Crew:- no, we are at anchor! Our skipper wanted to go to marina, but we preferred to be at anchor!
Manager:- can i talk to the skip?
Crew:- no, he said he expected bora of 40knots, took a dinghy and left the boat to see some friends…
Who: Parus
Where: Moscow Kornati islands(croatia)
Current rating: : 5.6 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Man #1: I hear you joined a sailing club?
Man #2: Yeah, you should join up too
Man #1: Why? I don’t like sailing
Man #2: Me neither, I get sea sick, I joined for the social aspects, it means I don’t have to socialise with my wife at the weekend and it’s more fun than golf.
Who: Bonza
Where: Perth Y.C., Australia
Current rating: : 4.67 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Man 1: So, the way this works is that you have the mast stepped on the compression post, and the compression post runs all the way to the keel. The post is just behind this board here…
Prolonged screeching noise is heard as the boat runs aground
Man 1: And that was the keel
Man 2: Glad we chartered
Where: Split, Croatia
Who: Skip
Current rating: : 5.67 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ...Thursday, 24 May 2007, approx. 1915hrs.
VHF Channel 16: “This is Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban Radio. There will be no Weather Forecast at 7.15 this evening due to staff unavailability”.
Stunned silence from the airwaves for a moment, followed by a call from some vessel to ask what that was all about.
VHF Channel 16: ” I am the only person on duty and I don’t have time to read a Weather Forecast with all my other work”.
Click. Silence for the rest of the night. That’s Africa for you!
Who: Multihullsailor
Where: VHF / Sailing for Southern Africa mag
Current rating: : 5.57 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Novice Sailor: Do you know a good cure for sea sickness?
Seasoned Sailor: Stand under a tree.
Where: Mayo SC
Who: Magic
Current rating: : 5.78 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Two yachtsmen alone in the middle of the ocean:
Man #1: What would you prefer now – wine or a woman?
Man #2: It depends on the year of production.
Where: Marina
Who: Rossy
Current rating: : 5.4 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Early morning, it’s raining, good English summer rain.
An old yachtie walking to the showers, mumbing aloud: “I don’t mind getting wet at sea, but detest it on land!”
Where: East Coast marina, UK
Who: Multihullsailor
Current rating: : 4.67 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ... Tactician: What was our course when we rounded the top mark?!
Mastman/compass guy: I dunno, I was jumping the hally!
Tactician: Come on, just take a fucking guess of what it was before we gybed!
Mastman/compass guy: We were sailing at 3.6.5 degrees.
Where: on boat
Who: m1
Current rating: : 3.33 out of 6 (Click on the stars to vote) Loading ...