I am pleased that the year as far as operating Bay Pelican was without memorable moments, the boating equivalent of continued peace and prosperity. And may that continue for another year. Beautiful days and peaceful nights. However, out on the water, in a small 20 foot Whaler, we witnessed a great sailboat maneuver during one of the Classic Yacht Regatta races on Antigua. Deb and I, and our friends, John and Sandy, from Hanco were sitting in Handco's tender watching the races. We were just inside of one of the race marks with a great view of each boat as it passed the mark and made the turn. One boat, very small for the race, perhaps a 50 or 60 footer, failed to round the mark and instead hit and spun perpendicular to the mark and stopped. Close behind the stalled boat was a 180 footer, multimast, (10 sails?) which was sailing close to the wind and in order to avoid a collision was required to do an emergency tack swinging out and away from the mark. Watching the crew execute the tack as if they had practiced and had been prepared for the it, and watching the 180 foot boat change course in seconds was one of the more memorable pleasant moments I have had on the water. Anyone who has ever raced a sailboat dreams of having a crew that operates as if in a ballet, on this occasion that is what I witnessed. Marty Campanella Bay Pelican KK42

This last year has been plain sailing but last year was memorable! I wrote this elsewhere at the time it happened (now slightly edited with hindsight) but I'm unlikely to ever forget these moments. I need a rant and a bitch. There are some people who should only be allowed on a boat if you intend to drown them en-route. I'm on my way back to the UK after a visit to the Canary Isles but we're tucked up in the marina at Rabat in Morocco for a few days. Until a week or so ago we had a crew member who surely was sent by the devil. She came highly recommended by an acquaintance who asked if I could help her get more sea hours. Later I realized he'd been sleeping with her and probably wanted her out of the way. He's married. Leaving Weymouth on a really calm day she vomited all over the instrument panel. I should have turned around then but you know, sea sickness can happen to anyone. A more considerate aim would have been appreciated though, as would help in cleaning it all up. A few hours later, when I thought she was in her bunk, the main engine just stopped. It took me 30 minutes or so to realize that everything was fine, no breakdown, she'd been in the engine room and playing with the fuel manifold and managed to turn off the tank we were using. I'm still none the wiser about what she was doing. Then two days out she started sleeping during her watch. Not dozed at the helm, she got on the settee and slept. After lots of apologies from her and claims of not being well, I started doing a watch with her plus my own. No more problems until we get to Gibraltar, where she disappeared for 24 hours or so, keeping us in port for an extra day. A smooth trip down to Tenerife followed and I started to relax. A mistake. We had wifi whilst we were there but she decided to go to a cybercafe and save her mail to a usb stick and then plug that into the boats navigation computer, when that didn't work she tried the back up. Neither had any email software but after she'd finished both had an aggressive virus. There's a big notice on both saying that nothing is to be connected to them Grrrrr. Thank god the satellite comms with it's laptop is in my cabin. She claimed not to understand why we have a couple of general use laptops already equipped with wifi. I didn't discover this until four days later when we were ready to move on to the next island. I may have spoken a little harshly. I told her she was off the boat. Six hours reinstalling the software and charts plus a dongle problem solved and it's too late to move on easily that day and anyway, she'd disappeared ashore leaving all her gear behind. At 00 dark the following morning, the fire alarm went off, there was a fire in her cabin. When I burst down the locked door, she was so drunk she couldn't stand up and her bed was on fire. Smoking in bed. The fire out with a lot of smoke damage and her carted off to hospital with burns and smoke inhalation problems, we weren't going anywhere for a few days. It was ten days before she was fit to fly, then I bought her a plane ticket home, gave her money for a train ticket from the airport and extra for a cab home from the station. In the mean time the rest of us were cleaning up the mess, it's amazing how much mess a dry powder extinguisher makes, especially when that's not enough and you use a foam one from the engine room. I may have to replace all the head liners in the forward cabins area to get rid of the smoke smell. In her cabin, whilst trying to salvage as much of her stuff as possible, we found a big block of cannabis resin that went over the side. Two days after she went home, we moved on to Gran Canaria where we were met by the customs who spent 8 hours searching the boat. Thank god we found the cannabis I thought. The following day I got an email from our erstwhile crew member asking if we'd enjoyed the visit she'd arranged. I'm sure we were watched the rest of the time we spent there. To make matters worse, when we pulled into Rabat the customs gave us another good going over and I wonder if the Spanish Customs passed on the information they had received. I don't know if there are any lessons to be learnt, I'm probably still too angry to think it all out but writing it all down has helped a little.

Paige, what a nightmare! You're a far better & more tolerant captain than I could ever be. Also, you might want to lose your acquaintance's number. Incredible. Very entertaining to hear the story, but incredible just the same. Keith On Dec 22, 2011 1:02 PM, "Paige" <paige.reeves99@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > This last year has been plain sailing but last year was memorable! I > wrote this elsewhere at the time it happened (now slightly edited with > hindsight) but I'm unlikely to ever forget these moments. > > I need a rant and a bitch. There are some people who should only be > allowed on a boat if you intend to drown them en-route. > I'm on my way back to the UK after a visit to the Canary Isles but we're > tucked up in the marina at Rabat in Morocco for a few days. Until a week or > so ago we had a crew member who surely was sent by the devil. She came > highly recommended by an acquaintance who asked if I could help her get > more sea hours. Later I realized he'd been sleeping with her and probably > wanted her out of the way. He's married. > Leaving Weymouth on a really calm day she vomited all over the instrument > panel. I should have turned around then but you know, sea sickness can > happen to anyone. A more considerate aim would have been appreciated > though, as would help in cleaning it all up. A few hours later, when I > thought she was in her bunk, the main engine just stopped. It took me 30 > minutes or so to realize that everything was fine, no breakdown, she'd been > in the engine room and playing with the fuel manifold and managed to turn > off the tank we were using. I'm still none the wiser about what she was > doing. Then two days out she started sleeping during her watch. Not dozed > at the helm, she got on the settee and slept. After lots of apologies from > her and claims of not being well, I started doing a watch with her plus my > own. No more problems until we get to Gibraltar, where she disappeared for > 24 hours or so, keeping us in port for an extra day. > A smooth trip down to Tenerife followed and I started to relax. A mistake. > We had wifi whilst we were there but she decided to go to a cybercafe and > save her mail to a usb stick and then plug that into the boats navigation > computer, when that didn't work she tried the back up. Neither had any > email software but after she'd finished both had an aggressive virus. > There's a big notice on both saying that nothing is to be connected to them > Grrrrr. Thank god the satellite comms with it's laptop is in my cabin. She > claimed not to understand why we have a couple of general use laptops > already equipped with wifi. I didn't discover this until four days later > when we were ready to move on to the next island. I may have spoken a > little harshly. I told her she was off the boat. > Six hours reinstalling the software and charts plus a dongle problem > solved and it's too late to move on easily that day and anyway, she'd > disappeared ashore leaving all her gear behind. At 00 dark the following > morning, the fire alarm went off, there was a fire in her cabin. When I > burst down the locked door, she was so drunk she couldn't stand up and her > bed was on fire. Smoking in bed. The fire out with a lot of smoke damage > and her carted off to hospital with burns and smoke inhalation problems, we > weren't going anywhere for a few days. > It was ten days before she was fit to fly, then I bought her a plane > ticket home, gave her money for a train ticket from the airport and extra > for a cab home from the station. > In the mean time the rest of us were cleaning up the mess, it's amazing > how much mess a dry powder extinguisher makes, especially when that's not > enough and you use a foam one from the engine room. I may have to replace > all the head liners in the forward cabins area to get rid of the smoke > smell. In her cabin, whilst trying to salvage as much of her stuff as > possible, we found a big block of cannabis resin that went over the side. > Two days after she went home, we moved on to Gran Canaria where we were > met by the customs who spent 8 hours searching the boat. Thank god we found > the cannabis I thought. > The following day I got an email from our erstwhile crew member asking if > we'd enjoyed the visit she'd arranged. I'm sure we were watched the rest of > the time we spent there. To make matters worse, when we pulled into Rabat > the customs gave us another good going over and I wonder if the Spanish > Customs passed on the information they had received. > I don't know if there are any lessons to be learnt, I'm probably still too > angry to think it all out but writing it all down has helped a little. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/**mailman/listinfo/**passagemaking_lists.** > trawlering.com<http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com> > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-**request@lists.samurai.com<passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com>with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions. > >

The silver lining is that you are able to tell the story in the past tense. What a nightmare! Sent from handheld device -- please excuse brevity and typos On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Keith McGregor <keith.kmcgregor@gmail.com> wrote: > Paige, what a nightmare! You're a far better & more tolerant captain than > I could ever be. Also, you might want to lose your acquaintance's number. > > Incredible. Very entertaining to hear the story, but incredible just the > same. > > Keith > On Dec 22, 2011 1:02 PM, "Paige" <paige.reeves99@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> This last year has been plain sailing but last year was memorable! I >> wrote this elsewhere at the time it happened (now slightly edited with >> hindsight) but I'm unlikely to ever forget these moments. >> >> I need a rant and a bitch. There are some people who should only be >> allowed on a boat if you intend to drown them en-route. >> I'm on my way back to the UK after a visit to the Canary Isles but we're >> tucked up in the marina at Rabat in Morocco for a few days. Until a week or >> so ago we had a crew member who surely was sent by the devil. She came >> highly recommended by an acquaintance who asked if I could help her get >> more sea hours. Later I realized he'd been sleeping with her and probably >> wanted her out of the way. He's married. >> Leaving Weymouth on a really calm day she vomited all over the instrument >> panel. I should have turned around then but you know, sea sickness can >> happen to anyone. A more considerate aim would have been appreciated >> though, as would help in cleaning it all up. A few hours later, when I >> thought she was in her bunk, the main engine just stopped. It took me 30 >> minutes or so to realize that everything was fine, no breakdown, she'd been >> in the engine room and playing with the fuel manifold and managed to turn >> off the tank we were using. I'm still none the wiser about what she was >> doing. Then two days out she started sleeping during her watch. Not dozed >> at the helm, she got on the settee and slept. After lots of apologies from >> her and claims of not being well, I started doing a watch with her plus my >> own. No more problems until we get to Gibraltar, where she disappeared for >> 24 hours or so, keeping us in port for an extra day. >> A smooth trip down to Tenerife followed and I started to relax. A mistake. >> We had wifi whilst we were there but she decided to go to a cybercafe and >> save her mail to a usb stick and then plug that into the boats navigation >> computer, when that didn't work she tried the back up. Neither had any >> email software but after she'd finished both had an aggressive virus. >> There's a big notice on both saying that nothing is to be connected to them >> Grrrrr. Thank god the satellite comms with it's laptop is in my cabin. She >> claimed not to understand why we have a couple of general use laptops >> already equipped with wifi. I didn't discover this until four days later >> when we were ready to move on to the next island. I may have spoken a >> little harshly. I told her she was off the boat. >> Six hours reinstalling the software and charts plus a dongle problem >> solved and it's too late to move on easily that day and anyway, she'd >> disappeared ashore leaving all her gear behind. At 00 dark the following >> morning, the fire alarm went off, there was a fire in her cabin. When I >> burst down the locked door, she was so drunk she couldn't stand up and her >> bed was on fire. Smoking in bed. The fire out with a lot of smoke damage >> and her carted off to hospital with burns and smoke inhalation problems, we >> weren't going anywhere for a few days. >> It was ten days before she was fit to fly, then I bought her a plane >> ticket home, gave her money for a train ticket from the airport and extra >> for a cab home from the station. >> In the mean time the rest of us were cleaning up the mess, it's amazing >> how much mess a dry powder extinguisher makes, especially when that's not >> enough and you use a foam one from the engine room. I may have to replace >> all the head liners in the forward cabins area to get rid of the smoke >> smell. In her cabin, whilst trying to salvage as much of her stuff as >> possible, we found a big block of cannabis resin that went over the side. >> Two days after she went home, we moved on to Gran Canaria where we were >> met by the customs who spent 8 hours searching the boat. Thank god we found >> the cannabis I thought. >> The following day I got an email from our erstwhile crew member asking if >> we'd enjoyed the visit she'd arranged. I'm sure we were watched the rest of >> the time we spent there. To make matters worse, when we pulled into Rabat >> the customs gave us another good going over and I wonder if the Spanish >> Customs passed on the information they had received. >> I don't know if there are any lessons to be learnt, I'm probably still too >> angry to think it all out but writing it all down has helped a little. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> http://lists.trawlering.com/**mailman/listinfo/**passagemaking_lists.** >> trawlering.com<http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com> >> >> To unsubscribe send email to >> passagemaking-under-power-**request@lists.samurai.com<passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com>with the word >> UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. >> >> Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World >> Productions. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions. >

LAURENCE........What patience.....I would have forgiven her.....then keel hauled her........it improves the attitude > From: citizenlaurence@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:41:53 -0500 > To: keith.kmcgregor@gmail.com > CC: passagemaking@lists.trawlering.com > Subject: Re: [PUP] . Share your most memorable boating experience of 2011 > > The silver lining is that you are able to tell the story in the past tense. What a nightmare! > > Sent from handheld device -- please excuse brevity and typos > > > On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Keith McGregor <keith.kmcgregor@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Paige, what a nightmare! You're a far better & more tolerant captain than > > I could ever be. Also, you might want to lose your acquaintance's number. > > > > Incredible. Very entertaining to hear the story, but incredible just the > > same. > > > > Keith > > On Dec 22, 2011 1:02 PM, "Paige" <paige.reeves99@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> This last year has been plain sailing but last year was memorable! I > >> wrote this elsewhere at the time it happened (now slightly edited with > >> hindsight) but I'm unlikely to ever forget these moments. > >> > >> I need a rant and a bitch. There are some people who should only be > >> allowed on a boat if you intend to drown them en-route. > >> I'm on my way back to the UK after a visit to the Canary Isles but we're > >> tucked up in the marina at Rabat in Morocco for a few days. Until a week or > >> so ago we had a crew member who surely was sent by the devil. She came > >> highly recommended by an acquaintance who asked if I could help her get > >> more sea hours. Later I realized he'd been sleeping with her and probably > >> wanted her out of the way. He's married. > >> Leaving Weymouth on a really calm day she vomited all over the instrument > >> panel. I should have turned around then but you know, sea sickness can > >> happen to anyone. A more considerate aim would have been appreciated > >> though, as would help in cleaning it all up. A few hours later, when I > >> thought she was in her bunk, the main engine just stopped. It took me 30 > >> minutes or so to realize that everything was fine, no breakdown, she'd been > >> in the engine room and playing with the fuel manifold and managed to turn > >> off the tank we were using. I'm still none the wiser about what she was > >> doing. Then two days out she started sleeping during her watch. Not dozed > >> at the helm, she got on the settee and slept. After lots of apologies from > >> her and claims of not being well, I started doing a watch with her plus my > >> own. No more problems until we get to Gibraltar, where she disappeared for > >> 24 hours or so, keeping us in port for an extra day. > >> A smooth trip down to Tenerife followed and I started to relax. A mistake. > >> We had wifi whilst we were there but she decided to go to a cybercafe and > >> save her mail to a usb stick and then plug that into the boats navigation > >> computer, when that didn't work she tried the back up. Neither had any > >> email software but after she'd finished both had an aggressive virus. > >> There's a big notice on both saying that nothing is to be connected to them > >> Grrrrr. Thank god the satellite comms with it's laptop is in my cabin. She > >> claimed not to understand why we have a couple of general use laptops > >> already equipped with wifi. I didn't discover this until four days later > >> when we were ready to move on to the next island. I may have spoken a > >> little harshly. I told her she was off the boat. > >> Six hours reinstalling the software and charts plus a dongle problem > >> solved and it's too late to move on easily that day and anyway, she'd > >> disappeared ashore leaving all her gear behind. At 00 dark the following > >> morning, the fire alarm went off, there was a fire in her cabin. When I > >> burst down the locked door, she was so drunk she couldn't stand up and her > >> bed was on fire. Smoking in bed. The fire out with a lot of smoke damage > >> and her carted off to hospital with burns and smoke inhalation problems, we > >> weren't going anywhere for a few days. > >> It was ten days before she was fit to fly, then I bought her a plane > >> ticket home, gave her money for a train ticket from the airport and extra > >> for a cab home from the station. > >> In the mean time the rest of us were cleaning up the mess, it's amazing > >> how much mess a dry powder extinguisher makes, especially when that's not > >> enough and you use a foam one from the engine room. I may have to replace > >> all the head liners in the forward cabins area to get rid of the smoke > >> smell. In her cabin, whilst trying to salvage as much of her stuff as > >> possible, we found a big block of cannabis resin that went over the side. > >> Two days after she went home, we moved on to Gran Canaria where we were > >> met by the customs who spent 8 hours searching the boat. Thank god we found > >> the cannabis I thought. > >> The following day I got an email from our erstwhile crew member asking if > >> we'd enjoyed the visit she'd arranged. I'm sure we were watched the rest of > >> the time we spent there. To make matters worse, when we pulled into Rabat > >> the customs gave us another good going over and I wonder if the Spanish > >> Customs passed on the information they had received. > >> I don't know if there are any lessons to be learnt, I'm probably still too > >> angry to think it all out but writing it all down has helped a little. > >> > >> > >> ______________________________**_________________ > >> http://lists.trawlering.com/**mailman/listinfo/**passagemaking_lists.** > >> trawlering.com<http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com> > >> > >> To unsubscribe send email to > >> passagemaking-under-power-**request@lists.samurai.com<passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com>with the word > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > >> > >> Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > >> Productions. > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com > > > > To unsubscribe send email to > > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions. >