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Gareth wrote:
Now I'm no expert boat launcher, but there seems to be quite a few incidents happening where people in 4x4 vehicles who think they can launch a boat get into trouble.
Apparently, a chap who had never launched his boat before insisted on doing it himself with his own vehicle, despite an offer of the local boat launcher to put it in for him. He managed to over turn the boat on the slipway, spilling the contents of the fuel tank into the harbour.
I was in the pub that night and his name was mud!
Many summers spent carrying kit down both of those slipways....fair to say they are both very steep...spent all of my youth carrying wet kit and fish up and down. Great place....!!
10th Sep 2017 10:25 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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10th Sep 2017 10:29 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Farmer Chalk wrote:
Gareth wrote:
Now I'm no expert boat launcher, but there seems to be quite a few incidents happening where people in 4x4 vehicles who think they can launch a boat get into trouble.
Apparently, a chap who had never launched his boat before insisted on doing it himself with his own vehicle, despite an offer of the local boat launcher to put it in for him. He managed to over turn the boat on the slipway, spilling the contents of the fuel tank into the harbour.
I was in the pub that night and his name was mud!
Many summers spent carrying kit down both of those slipways....fair to say they are both very steep...spent all of my youth carrying wet kit and fish up and down. Great place....!!
Yes we loved it. So much that we have already booked the tintent into Treloan again for next year!
10th Sep 2017 10:31 pm
Farmer Chalk
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Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
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Next you'll be buying down there! Our family liked it so much they bought a farm on the Roseland peninsula and moved lock stock and all the horses down there!
Gorgeous place ....except it's full of tourists! Lol!
Love the coast road from Portscatho to Mevagissey.... spent my youth blatting down those lanes!
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Interesting seeing them try to open the tailgate with no power! It won't open! Richard
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14th Sep 2017 8:13 am
Geoff at Drym
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I'd love to know how it finished up in the water in the first place. Maybe left in neutral with the EPB off? Oh no. Forget that! Driver was rescued wasn't he? 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
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14th Sep 2017 9:11 am
XXV
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I was thinking that the Wade sensing was a complete waste of time
14th Sep 2017 9:46 am
Gazellio
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Odd he did not expect water to flow out when he opened the drivers door! Pillock.
14th Sep 2017 9:57 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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I like the way it was lifted very slowly out of the water. Presumably to allow some of the water out, otherwise a 2.7 ton car would weigh 5 tons!
Still, it didn't all come out did it! Wet feet Richard
D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.
Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
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14th Sep 2017 10:01 am
EMcC
Member Since: 10 Jul 2015
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 536
I doubt it will pass it's MOT when it's due next month
Mind you didn't Jeremy Clarkson do something similar to this with a Toyota and when it was drained it started after a few presses of the starter ?
14th Sep 2017 12:58 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
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Looks clean.
14th Sep 2017 2:14 pm
EMcC
Member Since: 10 Jul 2015
Location: Wiltshire
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Probably had a few crabs or lobsters in it too !!
I noticed the guy on the quay picking bags and stuff up that must have washed out of it when it was lifted as I noticed the drivers window was fully open.
It looked as if the back door bent slightly too when he tried to open it.
I got the impression they were treating it like practice ... the thing had a towbar on so surely it could've been pulled back up the slope it went down in the first place ?
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