wheels 543 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 This from a bloke who owns a concrete cyclone. You forgot the "proof" on the end TL Just because i own one, doesn't mean i haven't played in others. And that was one of the big reasons why we went for one. You had to see to believe where I put my boat into yesterday and the conditions I was in while doing it, to drop of 7 people. Then had to get back out again. Would never of dreamed of atempting that in one of those bendyboats. It was hard enough as it was, but the big keel, 26Tonnes, massive rudder and good Hp all worked in giving me some great control in a very tricky situation. Link to post Share on other sites
tuffyluffy 76 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 This from a bloke who owns a concrete cyclone. You forgot the "proof" on the end TL Just because i own one, doesn't mean i haven't played in others. And that was one of the big reasons why we went for one. You had to see to believe where I put my boat into yesterday and the conditions I was in while doing it, to drop of 7 people. Then had to get back out again. Would never of dreamed of atempting that in one of those bendyboats. It was hard enough as it was, but the big keel, 26Tonnes, massive rudder and good Hp all worked in giving me some great control in a very tricky situation. Touche. I was thinking Cyclone, as in slow moving depression and whats this talk of horsepower?! its eat-sleep-sail, not eat-sleep-start the donk up. Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I would like to see you try and sail in and out of where I was. I was thinking for a mo, ooops, about to have a "wheels experience", but got back out of trouble by the skin of my teath. One of those in hindsight situations of I should not really have done that. But oh well. Done it, got away with it. Link to post Share on other sites
w44vi 17 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 One of those in hindsight situations of I should not really have done that. But oh well. Done it, got away with it. don't the aero guys have a saying, any landing you can walk away from is a good one, or something like that Link to post Share on other sites
w44vi 17 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 If you don't try you will never know what can be done. We have an emergency steering system, probably similar to many others using the spinnaker pole and large GRP panel witch make a searing orr. It wasn't until the cat 3 inspector say have you tried it that we gave it a go, it didn't work using it like a rudder, but of you had the boat balanced you could stick it out the side and use it like a brake, it was ok I like the idea of a transom hung rudder as a back up Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 tv3 wants to interview us now. better get over my camera shyness Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Hi Everybody, I was one of the other crew on the yacht at the time. I can say with absolute certainty that we were on a boat which was well provisioned and it's owner has spent a lot of time and money getting it ready for these voyages. We had 2 other crew on board who have a lot of offshore miles between them, and we all worked our hardest to get the boat sailing with no rudder. We spent 2 days trying to build various systems to steer with, but no matter what we did we ended up going around in circles. It was far too dangerous to swim under the boat to do anything with the rudder in those conditions. I know I dont fancy being hit on the head by ten tons of yacht. If there had been light winds and small waves, our jury rudder probably would have worked, but unfortunately we were getting 30 knots and 4 - 6 metre waves. Also it would never have lasted the hundreds of miles to NZ or back to Fiji. Also Fiji has no coastgaurd and getting in past the reefs with no rudder would be very dangerous. We did not abandon ship until the container ship arrived to help us, and using the liferaft to transfer to the ship was thier idea, not ours. At least if I break a rudder on my proa I can just slide the other one out and into the place of the broken one. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 tv3 wants to interview us now. better get over my camera shyness And get a haircut Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 better get over my camera shyness You shy? yeah right Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Hi Proa, good to see you back safely. We are all keen to know why the liferaft failed ? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 here is the video of us that was just on the news http://www.3news.co.nz/Sailors-rescued- ... fault.aspx Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Jordan is going to be busy offline for awhile. He is currently running off autographed copies of the news clip to send out to everyone. Link to post Share on other sites
ec12nz 1 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The TV3 clip was excellent - clearly see the bottom of the raft absent from duty. It looked like the weather had improved a lot by pick up time onto the ship. Now 1 yacht looking for a new home Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I'm picking Queensland Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The TV3 clip was excellent - clearly see the bottom of the raft absent from duty. It looked like the weather had improved a lot by pick up time onto the ship. Now 1 yacht looking for a new home nope, there was still a good 4m swell running. and it got much worse over the next few days. we were doing 18 and the ship hit a wave and literally stopped. it must have been a 7 or 8er Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The TV3 clip was excellent - clearly see the bottom of the raft absent from duty. It looked like the weather had improved a lot by pick up time onto the ship. Now 1 yacht looking for a new home nope, there was still a good 4m swell running. and it got much worse over the next few days. we were doing 18 and the ship hit a wave and literally stopped. it must have been a 7 or 8er Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Glad it ended up OK JH. None of you looked too comfortable clinging to the liferaft. What a ferkin disgrace with the floor collapsing. Zodiac huh?? Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 One of those in hindsight situations of I should not really have done that. But oh well. Done it, got away with it. don't the aero guys have a saying, any landing you can walk away from is a good one, or something like that A landing you can walk away from is a good landing. A landing you where can use the aeroplane again is a great landing. Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 here is the video of us that was just on the newshttp://www.3news.co.nz/Sailors-rescued- ... fault.aspx As is often the way I can't seem to view it from India. Could you posted it up on Youtube? Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Hey Jordan. Where are those pics you promised us?? Did you get your TV3 interview?? Link to post Share on other sites
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