Major Search and Research Averted off Langness
Posted By admin on May 31, 2009
News is just coming in of a major incident involving a club member off Langness this afternoon. It appears only for the persons ability to swim quickly and strongly was a disaster averted. Now I know you’re all wondering who it was and the clue is, it was a “Cat”astrophe.
On a sunny Sunday the Delta of JQ with the family on board set out to catch some fish. He was warned, fishing off a racing yacht would anger the sea gods (for those religious, I think this is a sin of the mortal variety, for the rest of us it’s just damn bad form) However, off the back of Langness whilst hauling in mackerel a basking shark was spotted heading directly towards them, Captain Q held his course so the girls could all get a look and leaned out over the guard rail from his helm position, said guard rail promptly parted dumping Q into the drink alongside said Basker. (Half pike with twist scoring 7.3 marks)
On board impressive manover-board drill swung into action with wife Gill delegating daughter Lilly to point at the casualty whilst she took the helm commanding other daughter Jo to get some rope. The boat was efficiently turned round onto a reciprocal course with Lilly still pointing at the casualty, simultaneously Jo appeared from below with the rope (Qually’s best thin blue polyprop and 2 feet long!) Gill gunned the engine to push the Delta on at full speed but due to the slow pick by the heavy Delta and a couple of degrees error in course JQ’s strong swimming, honed through numerous catamaran pitchpoles, enabled him to make it back on board. Unlucky Gill and girls another 50 yards and a little bit more power in the outboard and you’d have left him there.
Now although this ended well and is a humourous tale there are serious nautical lessons to be learned;
1) Never have your mobile in your pocket.
2) Don’t have an expensive pair of Oakley sunglasses on.
3) Don’t be a tight arse and spend more than 20P on string to connect your webbing to the guard rails.
4) JQ jnr never fails to deliver in a sailing boat!
The Manx Basking Shark Watch have also been in touch to let everyone know the shark involved in the incident is undergoing therapy for shock. This due mainly to it mistakenly thinking it saw a creature with a dorsal fin that doubled as a blow hole but it was just JQ’s nose and him breathing out. Additionally they say it’s quite a cool shark sporting a gold pair of Oakley’s and a mobile. Unfortunately we’ve no pictures of the event as the shark’s only familiar with Sony Ericsson camera-phones and the Nokia it found confused it.
A final word of warning ……………….. don’t fish off a racing yacht!
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