Our 4 most embarrassing SAILING STORIES | when things went wrong
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- It's story time on Magic Carpet! Sit back and relax as we tell you about some of our boating misadventures.
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A favorite aphorism: "Good judgement is the result of experience... And experience is the result of poor judgement." None of us is immune!
Indeed a good saying👍
When Maya said she was really scared, Aladino reached out and touched her shoulder.
You two were made for each other.
This session takes me back to the years when I was in single digits sitting in the cockpit listening to the grown-ups tell cruising stories. It is fun to go back in time this way.
I have a funny story for you. Before I was born, my parents lived on a tiny boat in Hyannis Harbor on Cape Cod. My mom was a nurse doing night duty (higher pay) and my dad was supposed to wake up and row in a certain time (maybe 0300) to bring her back to the boat. Well, he slept through the alarm. Mom waits then takes off all her clothes, swims out, and slides into bed next to dad. He got up and rowed into get her clothes.
Love your stories! We're from PT Townsend, and bought a Cal 20 some years ago. My husband had spent a lot of time on other people's boats over the years, but this was the first one he'd ever owned. That first summer we learned how much we didn't know, and we did everything but fall in. The best story was when we sailed across the bay to Marrowstone Island because my husband wanted to tie up in front of the little general store there and buy a big cookie. As we got close to the Island he noticed a shipwreck on the beach, and wanted to take a closer look at it. We got a closer look, alright! The tide was surging and it pulled us right into a sandbar. We struggled and argued, and eventually called the coast guard. They towed us out back into the bay... just as a big regatta was happening. We have a larger, more trustworthy boat now, and we still love each other. So it all worked out :)
Maya, Aladino - thIs was a good one ! The Scenery was so quiet, the Camera-Angle was so right, the lighting was so moody, it feels like sitting with you both around a bonfire and listening to stories from the "good ol' times" ! PURRRFECT ! Thank you both for this one, stay healthy y'all and best regards from Germany
Yes, definitely do a Part Two!
Our first sailing as a couple was on Lake Amistad on the Rio Grand about 38 years ago. We were in harnesses on a Hobie 18 in 25+ winds and I buried a pontoon and we summer salted the boat. We were okay, but the funny thing was that after that anytime we were flying a hull and my wife thought we might flip, she would jump off! And of course then I would immediately flip the boat over. Keep the stories coming!
i had a 18 footer in my twenties.. not a sailboat, it had a 80 horse motor, heavy.. at the Everett Marina they have a "boat yard sale" and i bought two sail boat batteries that weighted in at about 120 pounds each and i installed them in my 18 footer, left and right near the aft tail end/stern, .. i was on the Snohomish River near Everett, and i hit the mud at low tide.. i backed out, and the front starboard side skin ripped off.. i was taking on water FAST.. so i closed the cabin door, ripped the bilge pump out of the battery bay, and tossed it into a hole i cut with an axe i had made to get to the water in the forward cabin, maybe 50-60 gallons at this point, i wired the pump to the lighting circuit beside the helm, it had thumb nuts, and was seriously praying that it would work, water started to bail, and i steered to the nearest ramp, ran her a ground, and walked for two hours for the truck and the trailer, all the while the bilge pump was running.. backed the trailer down the ramp, and swam over to the boat to find the pump was keeping up nicely, trailer-ed the boat, and pulled her out.. so thankful for the trouble of moving those batteries around to get them installed.. three months later, she was repaired and back on the river.. A wooden Chris Craft.. her keel flexed up in mid ships, from the wet, and so i dry docked her, and used 55 gallon drums with water to reverse flex the keel, and re braced the whole keel, i actually remember her "calling" to me in my sleep more than once to come out and get back to work.. haha.. at the next low tide, i went to the river and found what i had hit, turned out to be the anchor chain of a boat that Ernest Hemingway's boat had dropped back in the day, El Pilar, His boat was there in dry docks nearby.. lol.. the team didn't want the chain, it has 6 inch links, and I have about 8 feet of it, nearly rusted through.. in my garden.. .
You should clean it up and display it somewhere ! WD40 is the way. The way you worked that pump around, it should be real easy for you.
Sailing with my two adult sons on a 27 foot keelboat. The adventuresome one says, "Lets sail through Active Pass (in the Gulf Islands of BC.) I am not wanting to, knowing what can happen between islands but agree to and the wind dies. The outboard won't start. On son who has hearing in only one ear has it to a cell phone on an important call regarding a fisheries opening he is responsible for, and the other adventuresome one is advising that the powerful current is taking us towards the rocky shore. Meanwhile I am sweating buckets trying to get the 9.9 Yamaha lit up and FINALLY the motor started and all was well - except for my system still dealing with an adenalin overload and my mind wondering why I didn't have the motor idling out of gear when we sailed in there. Enjoy your channel and stories. - Earl-
Very brave and very entertaining vlog. You asked for our mistakes, well.... At the age of fourteen I was at the helm of a 30 ft ketch leaving harbour (the year was 1965 so before the luxury of a VHF radio).
We were now in the mouth of the harbour with fishing boats moored to the south pier to our starboard.
The skipper was on the foredeck and he pointed to draw my attention to the ferry which was alongside the north harbour wall to our port.
The ketch had an enclosed wheelhouse and it was impossible to hear anyone on deck due to the sound of the engine. I failed to understand what the skipper was warning me about.
The ferry was getting underway and her wake was sweeping towards us. In seconds it carried us sideways into the moored fishing boats. Luckily the fishermen were observing from their boat and quickly put a rubber tyre over the side to cushion the impact. We came away with only a bent stantion and my bent pride
I was reminded of the day my brother and I learned about tides and pulling out the boat on a beach. We were with our parents, in the San Juan islands Washington state. We motored up to a little shell beach in a 15' ish heavily built rental boat. The beach was some few feet of shell, then a little cap of sand, then real land started. We pulled the boat as far up as we could get it, just about the top of the sand if I recall correctly, and went for a hike. When we got back that boat was far, far, far away from the water. It was quite a chore to refloat it, but in the best possible scenery.
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Thank you for sharing these stories. It was like sitting with you in the cockpit, chatting all night long. ⛵️🥰
sitting here watching and thinking, if these two young people are examples of the next generation we’ll be ok. after all the craziness of the last few week here in the u.s. this video (the two of you) was/is much appreciated. looking forward to part 2
The most important thing I've gotten out of 45+ years of sailing is a long list of stories and a lot of great memories. I'm kind of a loner and autodidact (I don't like courses and instruction) .First sail in a racing dinghy I had to swim it back in with no rudder or centerboard. First Atlantic crossing as skipper: no engine and losing the mast 250 miles West of Flores (great story). Transat with a Norwegian crew (best passage ever). and many more. Karma is the secret! Be cool and carry on. It usually works out in the end. Love your channel. Keep it up.
My greatest sailing failure happened on Lake Dorset in Ontario one early November weekend back in 1978 when we were at a cottage. The wind was raging across the lake at a good 25-30 knots, so I thought it a great idea to take out the 14' Super Sunfish for some quick tacks. For about 30 min., I was just absolutely hooning along until -- and every dinghy sailor out there knows exactly what's about to happen -- I was heeled waaaaaay over when a sudden gust completely knocked down the boat. One moment I was racing along, the next I was in the water on top of the sail.
Lake water in central Ontario in November is freakin' cold. So, there I was in the water, wind howling and I found myself unable to right the boat again. I was absolutely stuffed and the water was cold enough to actually present a danger to me in case I couldn't get out of the water. Thankfully, my mom had seen me go over and she jumped in a boat to come out to rescue me. With her help, I was able to right the boat and sailed it slowly back to the dock. The shakes from both the cold and the shock/fear of what had happened took a long time to subside.
LOL. I've dragged anchor at Port Townsend and woke up in the ferry channel with a ferry boat blasting its horn.
Good stuff! The more you sail, the more stories you will collect! Looking forward to part 2👍✌️😊🙏🏼⛵️⛵️⛵️
Very entertaining. Look forward to part 2.
Seems like you had great lessons which became humorous along the way. The best way to learn, stay safe folks and thanks for the laughs.
Absolutely - misadventures often lead to the best lessons, and the best laughs later on!
Thank you for good and articulate stories,🙏
You guys are so precious. Thank you for being so kind and supportive to each other.
I was Hired to take a couple who are learning to sail, out on sunday in there 1979ish new islander 32. Newport harbor California. Pedestal steering. 150 genny is only head sail.10 to 15 mph breeze...fun sail until the Chain breaks on the pedestal steering. No steering above deck, engine won't start. What occurred was the funniest (in hindsight) Chinese firedrill I have ever experienced. In the midst of the chaos the huband pipes up and says "I wonder what the sane people are doing for fun today"
That is an epic story and mental picture!
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Great story. We all have them and you will laugh a lot when your old and retelling then.
Love the theme of sharing our misadventures . Each one that I have experienced has taught me valuable lessons I will never forget. Paying attention to wind shifts blowing into a bay that can cause " rollers " that can turn a quiet anchorage into a nightmare in minutes.
Being ables to lift anchor quickly and move to a safer location can save you damaging your keel & rudder or worse being pushed onto rocks. How lucky we are when experienced sailors share their knowledge with others to help us when we are not aware of eminent dangers. I am grateful they share their experiences with us. Fair winds and following seas ~ S/V Cork
Great freaking content! I just found your channel and really loven it, I showed my support by subscribing, so keep it coming:) stay safe guys.
Very good yes,
They are good storytellers 🤗
So cozy to listen
Thank you so much - all of you!! We’re pretty lucky to have such a great audience. 🌻
Love the stories - looking forward to round two!
We had the same experience the first time sailing into Port Townsend - came back after dark and my home was nowhere to be found.
Got to know those Squamish winds first hand too. We had a bad gybe with the asym and ended up broached - lost the gps and a bottle of vodka overboard, but we still made it in for the Squamish music festival.
It’s fun hearing about familiar places
Not wishing bad things for anyone but sure glad to hear I was not the only one to drag there😜👍🏽
~aladino
Yes, more stories please :)
Did not just like it but loved it. please provide more, very entertaining and also educational. You guys are waesome.
Thanks so much for the comment Carsten! We’ll definitely do some more!
Lovely to hear your stories, made us smile and giggle. Great. Definitely more stories required.
Love this one! More please Great learning and lovely presentation. Liked the audible birdsong near the beginning. Your home looks so cosy. Thanks.
On our honeymoon, a long time ago, sailing from Sapphire Bay to St Johns the wake of the Bahama Bomber ferry filled the cockpit of our sunfish in the middle of Pillsbury sound on our first real Adventure.
I live this video! It made me feel like I was just hanging out with you guys around a campfire swaping stories! Thank you so much and I can't wait to see more like this!
Wonderful to make such memories together 🥰
This was a fun video, usually the problems get edited out, good to hear about a few times things didn't go as planned.
Part 2 Please.
LOVE the stories and loved the lighting on the boat. So pretty and peaceful. I am an essential worker in my 50's. My husband is an essential worker in his 60's. We live in the state of Louisiana in the USA. Seeing this video takes us to a nice place after dealing with the public and distancing all day. Thank you both for this! My husband has a good boat stories that he may share with you two later. I hope that he does because I think that you will both get a good laugh out of it! Again.... Thank you both!!!
Your cabin looks so cozy in this video.
I was in a motor cruiser on the River Yare in the UK and I was approaching the confluence of the Yare and the River Bure. This boat appeared to be somewhat under powered. Where the two rivers joined, you needed to get the timimg right. This was important because the Yare would flood before the Bure had finished ebbing. I arrived too early, but there is nowhere to tie up so I had no choice but to face the flood of the Yare and then turn to face the fast ebb of the Bure. I was making less than one mile per hour with the engine flat out. I eventually made it a mile and half in 2 1/2 hours to a mooring place. Boy was I glad to get there. Later that week as I tuned out on to a large lake, to face a head wind, the throttle linkage on the boat came completely apart and we were being blown backwards. I was lucky to be able to quickly moor on the trip boat staging to fix the problem. Phew!
Please keep your stories coming, because these will form the basis of your memories in years to come.
That was a refreshingly different video, I enjoyed a sundowner beer with you while watching the light disappear behind you.
I once ran aground in a bay in the Whitsundays. There was a 2m wide coral bommie in a bay that was about 1km across. It was on the map, I knew roughly where it was but thought I would miss it. I didn't !!! I hit at 20+ knots, and bent the prop! Wont do that again!
Love your stories. Next you must tell the story of how you guys met. Maybe a mini series from the very first time you laid eyes on each other. Ending with wedding pictures and everything.
yes!
Good one😁 Great story telling!
Well, how many do you want? Like the time sailing from S Wales to Southern Ireland, we nearly missed Ireland all togrther in a storm or trying to enter Cork Harbour in a pea-souper so thick I couldn't see the bows of the boat from the centre cockpit of a 26 footer (both pre Satnav of course).
Or how about sailing across to a small natural harbour, with my toddler and pregnant wife aboard. We arrived too early, so had to anchor off. It was an oily day with a bit of a swell and I was soon feeing seasick. I tried one of those patches behind my ear & then decided to put my son & I in the inflatable & go for a poottle about. Forgot the spare petrol & couldn't row back to the boat against the wind, fortunately a passing boat gave us a tow. Back on board we were all feeling sick, so decided to try to sneak in past the bar by using the fabled "inshore passage". There was a bang and suddenly oil in the water, turned & headed back out to sea, passed the helm to my wife & dived below to find the floor boards already floating, ripped them up to discover shellfish inside the bilge ! Grabbed cushions and pillows and rammed them into the hole. Got the pumps going and called the coastguard. Spent the next hour or so persuading them to not send the lifeboat, whilst the tide rose enough to get us in. Wife & child vanished ashore to find a cottage to rent. I kept the boat afloat until the next high tide, borrowed an extra bilge pump & sailed it back to our home port to be craned out for repairs. What you call a learning experience. I have never used patches since, I am sure it affected my judgement that day, I am normally pretty cautious.
Bravo for your honesty! Great disasters have small beginnings. The skill is to recognise them.
These stories remind me of my dads saying" if something can go wrong at the most inconvenient time, and be embarrassing, it will. Love hearing about your exciting times and look forward to hearing more. Take care and stay safe in these trying times.
As yall have a spectacular channel and many excellent videos this was cool. Please make it a regular, maybe every 2-3 months.
Dear friendly and cheerful sailing couple. 💚
It's nice to see you in a good mood after struggling with the Rhone.
👍👌👏 Oh yes, please, let there be more parts. I can assure you that you mustn't be a sailor to do things wrong. I haven't been on a sailboat ever but nevertheless I'm writing the book "Things that I learned after it was too late". It is getting thicker constantly, right now I'm on page 555 already... sigh! I bet that you would laugh your heads off for hours and hours about all my slapstick stories.😁😳
Thanks a lot for making recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Please do more like this! It's a nice relaxed side you don't show very often and great stories ;)
you 2 are absolutely a treasure with your stories!!! I love to tell stories from a wealth of experiences, but clearly your stories are much more interesting! All the BEST! CHEERRS!!!
Going aground...I stopped counting after the 6th time.
There is a rock off the shore of our family cottage that everyone has hit in every boat we've ever owned (and our family has been there over 100 years so we should know better). Our newest sailboat has been named 'Sweet Shoal', after that darned rock, in hopes that *this* time, we'll manage not to hit it. Fingers crossed.
Love story time! haha.. thankyou for your honesty. xx I loved this video..its a great idea! Definitely part 2!! Love the music haha
oh man! I used to live in the San Juan Islands, your ferry boat story really brought me back! Definitely not the first (or the last) sailor to find yourself in a pickle with the ferry! thanks for this diversion- you guys are awesome!
Those are some pretty great stories, loved listening:)
Great episode! I have been working on boats (mine and others) for over 30 years and learn something new every day! And have made many 'mistakes'. Always learning! Just keep a level head and you will be fine.
yes part 2 too please.
I used to live in Port Townsend WA about 15 years ago, now I live in Italy haha. Great sea tales. I enjoyed them!
Good times... there’s no substitute for experience
Great idea for video series. You both good storytellers.
Nice one guys, would love to hear more stories!
Thanks for the great stories.
Great Stories. Thanks for the video.
Yes, my favorite story happened when we were taking a shower at a marina and one of the workers runs in and said “Does anyone have a boat with an American flag? It’s dragging.”
Awesome! Oh great! It's not just us that these things happen to! ❤😜
Cheers. Love this vlog format. I got my drink to clink and settle in for some tales. Love the overarching message that no one is perfect. X
Wonderful stories and it is to note that we learn while we live!!!! So sorry, we wished to have gotten to you the supply gifts and now well we are in the lock down and also that means frozen as to all other moves we were going to make! Be well and know we are pulling for you two and that we cherish your hard work and hope we can support you in the near future! Cheers! Happy Sails!
A few years ago, on my birthday, I gathered a bunch of friends to celebrate by bareboat chartering a 36ft sailboat and taking a day sail. One of the couple had a young 5yr old son, so as I'm setting up to leave, helm wont turn. So I show my friends how to unlock the steering. leaving harbour there is a dredger operating right in the middle of the channel. Do I pass port or starboard? 50/50 decision, I decide to go starboard. Immediately get grounded. So as I'm stuck in the sand, I can't turn the helm left or right. Try motoring forward and reverse, it only seems to get me more stuck.
I'm now convinced that the rudder is firmly wedged in the sand, which is why it won't budge, and how on earth do I get us out of this predicament. I'm the only sailor aboard, this is a pleasant day-sail and tryout for complete beginners, and we cant even get out of port successfully.
After 10 minutes of this, in complete exasperation, I turn the steering wheel lock, locked 5yr old tight. The boy had taken it upon himself to react to the grounding by locking the wheel, as I had showed them all 15 min previously.
Oops!
l Love your Stories!, More Please :) from A.B Canada
It’s cool you mentioned Port Townsend. My home town😄
I would live there one day if I could😁 ~aladino
Good stories and wine helps, really enjoy you two stay safe and loving
Ha!
My two friends and l each live on our own boats and we’re always getting in some sort of memorable trouble. Whenever innocent observers see and comment on anything questionable we do we tell them that it’s a “planned exercise because one day it could actually happen” which always saves us from certain embarrassment.
Love this! Thank you for the laughs. We are closing the gap on when we can splash again. It has been a loooong 2 months and we cant wait to be floating again! Cheers and fair winds ~
Do you have any photos of your wedding you could share? Love the dingy story with a happy ending. OMG! Maya! That story reminds me of in my youth when I had to drive a little car when the stirring wheel broke off! Funny now BUT not at the time. I had 2 little pieces sticking out to stir with and the actual wheel was snapped off.. This was a fun change. I must hear your first date!
I think the genesis of “Knock on Wood” comes from old sailors, their wooden boats and all the the storms and mishaps. 👍🙈🌞⛵️🎩
we like to say "knock on teak" for extra luck on board :)
@@sailingavocet I think it comes from an old English common law of sanctuary in a church, so if someone accused of a crime could just touch (knock) the wooden door of a church then the authorities couldn't touch him, but whose to say sailors didn't affectionately touch their wooden boats too - I do with mine !
I wont try to top you on this ! but I could ... oh well here is a little one - have you ever done a Captain Ron ? pull in and ask where you are
🤣still have to watch cap.ron
But yes I’ve done that too often in the beginning having no gps nor charts😬~aladino
Ps: you just reminded me of a good one to share that I forgot about!
Another nice chapter with two lovely people. Alidinio I’m sincerely glad that cough was just passing! I wonder if there are some folk songs coming or creative way to tie into your stories about your adventures with music? Just a thought :) Thanks for making us part of your circle, we both said we felt like we were sitting there in your cockpit, enjoying a few moments with you both, it really was a nice diversion, thanks!
I loved these stories, they were so interesting! Thank you so much. One time, in florida, we were out fishing-regular boat w/motor, not a sailboat, with my mom & dad. It was a little fiberglass boat, a small one, just big enough for my mom, dad, sister & myself. We were down by turtle mound. The water that day was extremely clear, you could see about six feet down. So we ended up seeing these huge sea turtles, my mom says, 'let's get closer', so my dad did, one of the turtles came up under the boat & scraped the bottom of it & side. Then my mom said, 'ok, let's get out of here, we don't want these turtles turning the boat over', so my dad did. He later had to make a repair on the scratch to the side of the boat, but the bottom was fine because he checked it when we got home. Another time, my mom & dad were fishing off of a dock. There was a pelican there on one of the post's. My mom cast out her line & the pelican grabbed it in mid-air & took off w/it. She freaked out & my dad ended up cutting the line to let the pelican go on his way. (I would love to hear some more stories for sure)
You guys are fun. Love to hang out with you someday.
Great episode! Very personable. Looking forward to the second.
😂😂 this is a great idea 🙈😂 thanks for sharing, always good to know that it happens to others, too 😅 Might have to steal this idea for our next live chat 😜 (will of course refer to your Chanel and mention the idea theft ☺️)
I’d be absolutely HONOURED to have you borrow the idea - I love your channel and what you’re doing! Best wishes with the ongoing recovery of your heel!
Sailing Magic Carpet ☺️sweet, thanks! Really enjoy ur channel and mentioned you in my last live feed. Keep up the great work 👍
WhiteSpotPirates aw wow really?! I’ll have to go watch your latest live feed :) thank you!!
Thank you both for a fun first episode for me! It was quiet enjoyable and got me hooked! Based in Long Island New York, theres not much to do right now, I have visited my boat (Tartan34C) a few times, started her up, and filled the water tank. Having a boat here is the best way to get out and stay safe while maintaining social distancing. Im three episodes in so far, and love how you baked bread in the skillet! You have inspired me, I added yeast to my shopping list!! With much time on my hands now, Its nice to find a new chanel with a very likable couple sharing there adventures. I look forward to watching them all! Thanks so much for your time and effort in filming and editing, stay safe , healthy and much peace and love... Charlie
I lost our 26 ft. Maxi last summer ...🙈
We was going to visit our daughter at her friends place.
It was too shallow so we couldn't reach the dock before we was stuck in the mud and seaweed.
So I took the dingie and our oversiced anker to pull us loose
That went well, the boat came loose and i just let out some more rope and we went to shore. we where in a protected bay and not much wind and a oversiced anker so i didn't think it was nessesary to start the engine to proper set the anker ...
It sat enugh to pull us loose....
2 hour's later we came back and no boat in sight 😬
We could see miles in the winddirectin and no boat....
But we found it, just around the corner some nice people had it on their mooring , They went out and saved it before it went on the rocks...
Our big anker was a big ball of seaweed sliding nicely ower everything,,😆
-This one was a cheep lesson. A case of beer for the rescuer 😀
🤣good one!
Glad nothing serious happened
That’s why now I even dive and check whenever I can✌🏽
~aladino
Looks like Springtime has come to the Magic Carpet!!!
It sure has!! It’s wonderful!
Awesome episode. Even the comments are good !
Thanks for sharing.
All boaters , not just sailors have these stories, as I've got many myself. My wife calls one , our Gilligan episode.
Hi Maya and Aladino. No body knows what will happen in the future, we all have plans but as we have found out recently things can change really quickly. So during these quiet times I have been watching some videos by "FlemingYachts". Wow they are good, if you are planing to venture to the Americas or Canada you should watch them... Beautifully filmed and narrated, I know it is a different type of cruising than yours, but I highly recommend a quick viewing, they may give you some ideas for your future plans. Stay safe and keep posting :-)))) xx
Well, mine's a little different, because I never had a sailboat; however, I've had fun with power boats too. My first fishing boat was a little 12' aluminum boat with a junk homemade trailer and I saw it for sale with a little 5 hp motor for $500.00 for the lot. I drummed up the money and went and ask the guy if it ran good. He told me that it was running good when he last used it, but his kids had it out a couple times after him. So I bought it and hooked it on my car hitch and headed home. Well about 1/2 way home, I realized that it wasn't actually attached to the trailer, except by the front hook. It rolled and almost came off the trailer when wind hit it at 50 miles per hour. I quickly decelerated and got the whole rig stopped, luckily the boat was leaning towards the ditch, not into the road, or it would surely have been over as multiple cars and trucks came speeding by very close. It had pushed the little trailer fender down onto the tire and was smoking as it almost cut the tire in half, so I later had to replace that. I wrestled the boat back into position and pulled a piece of rope I had in the back out and tied it on some and took it slow the rest of the way home. So I get home and I'm showing my dad and I'm all excited to show him my great deal. He looked at the trailer a bit skeptically, but just looked it over and was like pretty good for $500. So I ask if he had some gas and he told me to grab the chainsaw 2 cycle mix and I did. I start filling up the little tank on top and decided to just run it for a second without worrying about having it in water just to see if it would start. Then we noticed fuel running all over on the side. Well, we took off the motor cover and the gas tank was just sitting there without even being hooked to the carburetor and there was no spark plug in the engine. So that was my first round. I didn't have any more money, so we took off the top off the motor and attached a 6 hp gas lawn mower engine instead and I used it like that. An Eska lower unit with a 6 hp air cooled Briggs & Stratton top part. Nice thing is, I didn't have to worry about water circulation, because we plugged the inlet and outlet and just filled the lower with oil and the engine was cooled by air. So I finally get out on a lake with it about 2 weeks later and I was motoring along and didn't see a sand bar blocking the bay I was going into and I ran it aground and sheared the prop pin. Thus I got to go about 1 mile up the lake and then row 1 mile back down the lake, reload the boat on the trailer and drive 30 miles home fuming all the way. Thus was my first boating excursion on my own. So now I say, "let me see it run", and I don't just take off with any trailer until it's inspected fully.
Great stories! :-)...i can relate to some experiences i have had with boats.
Good beer always helps good stories!. what was it? Beer snobs always have to know.
Love most Belgian beers😸
This was a chimay
Cheers ~aladino
@@SailingMagicCarpet Orval is my favorite beer ever. It is bottle conditioned let it sit at least a few months.
Very Nice
ALADINO y MAYA UN SALUDO DESDE ARGENTIMA !!!!
So my son when he was about 13 is helming a friends 35 foot race boat during a race , Big destroyer wheel . . We are downwind , chute up, just flying, the boats got a bone in her teeth , while he weaves through the rest of the fleet still going upwind -boats going all over trying to make the mark . He is cutting sterns close enough to toss a beer and lots of yelling starboard . Friends wife who does not really understand racing is getting all nervous about the real close traffic and says to him aren't you worried about hitting someone ?
Without skipping a beat he says , nope......its not my boat . The look on her face , wish we had filmed it .
LOL , we raced all the time and he drove all the time and knew what he was doing but she didn't and he was just pulling her chain .
Oh yes part 2 please . Lol
I've never run aground,....but than again, i don't own a boat xD.
Curious.... Why not tie off to the rear river pylon like being at anchor? Would the boat have moved too much? Thanks! And... Love the stories. :-)
Good thinking
But we were to close to the bank and had no room to swing😸 ~aladino
I love a good old fashioned story. But it sounds like you guys go up and down the canals regularly, how many times have you down the trip to the Med (or back) via the inland waterways now?
Only twice! This is our second time :) Aladino did it once more before I ever met him though.
Sailing Magic Carpet it came across in the video as if it was a path 'well trodden' for you guys.
We were considering it at one point, still haven't totally ruled it out (depending on when the lockdown period ends). We draw 1.52m so I'm fairly sure there's only one possible route we can take down. Do you guys know in advance if the entire length of the canal route you need to take is open? As in is there somewhere you can check on canal closures (Generally speaking when there isn't a pandemic that is).
My very first sail boat disaster. Firstly I'm probably less risk adverse then I should be. Buuuuut i come by it naturally. So of course when my wife bought me a 12' dingy sailor a Kolibri 2-12, I of course called my Dad to be my very first crew on it's/our maiden voyage. We probably should have turned back in the truck when we realized there was 20-25kts with gust of 30kts, but of course we thought "what a better way to learn good". Right? Anyway got it unloaded and mast up, Jib up, Jib sheet off, main in the boom track but not up, and we shove off. In hindsight and a look up at the horizon would have helped up to realize the weather was worsening, but when your new you don't know things. lol Luckily we were in the Lee of a bit of a point to Starboard, so it wasn't to bad a first, and it gave us enough time before the real wind hit us to get the main up. We sailed along nicely with the wind behind the beam slightly for about 45 seconds. All the while see that the wind and waves after the point were lets say zesty-er. But we were trying to get a feel for sheets and salis and booms and where to sit and what now. So as we poked the nose out around the tip of the point the wind shoved the bow the port fairly good, so, I like a pro ;) pulled the tiller towards towards me and bam! It broke off in my hand. lol Needless to say things went down hill, or rather went down pretty quick after that. We ended up swimming the capsized, boat back to shore about a km down wind, dragging it up onto the beach sorta, bailing it out, and dragging it along the shore back to boat lunch. It was quite the adventure.
Aye m8's, Interesting indeed. And a superb atmosphere for story telling with all the bird songs and calls around you. First the Blackbirds and Robins and then - the later the better, the Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops) accompanies your tales. Hard to beat this but nevertheless - a good series of boating misadventures is born. ☝️
If you want to keep your toys perfect then leave em in the box and don't play with them . Then you don't enjoy the adventures or the toy so- . Look at the scuffs as character marks and notches detailing history and your education.
faircompetition1 - great and thoughtful lesson. Thanks for sharing.
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