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Home Forums Forum Sailing from Scotland to Northern Ireland

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      Oliver Shaw
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      A mention by Curly during the Q&A session after my Cruising talk this afternoon (our stand at the Virtual Dinghy Show) reminded me this evening of a delightful story that I heard some years ago from Liverpool Coastguard,  who had been involved in the  incident.

      Curly mentioned the small fleet of GP14s which sailed from Scotland to Northern Ireland as a charity fund-raiser,  I think for RNLI,  some years ago.

      The story from Liverpool Coastguard,  which I heard when my club paid them an officially organised visit,  concerned another charity fund-raiser;   two men (or was it three?) doing the same passage in a bath tub,  under outboard motor.

      They were highly experienced small boat men,  and they did everything right.  They had ample reserves of fuel,  they put a flotation collar round the bath tub,  they carried all the necessary navigational and safety kit,  and they arranged for a trawler to escort them.

      All went well on the outward passage.   It was on the return passage when things went pear-shaped,  when the trawler sank,  and her crew had to be rescued in the first instance by the bath tub!

       

      Oliver

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