ex Elly 197 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Sounds like a delivery gone wrong. Owner is not happy with delivery skipper... Skipper who grounded boat on Christchurch beach blames 'shocking' weather https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118427143/skipper-who-ground-boat-on-christchurch-beach-blames-shocking-weather Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 The skipper goes by the name 'Crazy Horse'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mcp 32 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 The Skipper (Horse) was living on a debilitated motor launch on a mooring near Port Nikau at Whangarei. Known for his tall tails and frequent consumption of electric puha. I had meet him a few times and I would suggest he has very limited idea of what he was doing. My GUESS...is he got scared and didn't know what to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
erice 732 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 news story said he hadn't worked? on a fishing boat for 17 years Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 "Well off course". Yep,well off course is right. This smells fishy. Leaving Lyttleton (or heading to) puts you a hell of a long way off that beach. From memory, I think the furthest out is like 80Nm if you make a straight line course for the top of the South. It would be far better to have turned back to Lyttleton or head for Motonau Island if weather was a big issue. The last place I would ever head was in toward that beach, If the weather was bad enough that far out, the breakers on the beach would be suicide. If they survived the Beaching, then the weather would not have been that bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Did you say fishy Wheels? They didn't leave from Lyttleton. They left from Akaroa, apparently... David "Crazy Horse" Atkinson says while trying to leave Canterbury's Akaroa Harbour, he and his crew had to battle "big swells" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Akaroa? Well that makes the story even weirder then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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