Surfing Waves

Can people really be this fooking stupid?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-28825749

KS

The USA leader of all things have in their premier State New York found a a way to deal with a proportion of the surfing population. City hall = Numpties The land of the FREE yeah right!
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/bodyb ... rk_116461/

kitesurfer wrote:Can people really be this fooking stupid?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-28825749

KS

Yes. Yes, they can.

I do wonder what he was actually trying to do though. Did he go out there to die or was he actually trying to get to the US? Very strange.

When I was in the Sea Explorers (ocean version of Boy Scouts but coed) a bunch of scouts and the assistant scoutmaster wanted to sail our boat which we called the SS Rubber Ducky to Oahu from Kauai for a day trip meaning going and coming back in one day. We were all relatively new to sailing but Oahu is like 95 miles in a straight line from Kauai and sailboats don't do straight lines unless the wind is particularly good. I told them all it wasn't going to be a day trip since the Rubber Ducky did 3 knots max but they disagreed with me. I mean any one with minimal math skills (like grade school arithmetic) could tell there was going to be a problem. My ex-girlfriend and her brother arrived too late since the Rubber Ducky had left the harbor. I had a Sailfish (small sailboat) and knew I could easily catch them even overburdened with an extra person they were made for one or two people so I offered to take them out. Well...it was my ex-girlfriend LOL so I got them out there in no time. The Rubber Ducky hadn't made much progress due to the wind and that it was a plug of a ship. They left at 6 am and arrived on Oahu at 9 pm....must have had good wind. I was about to call the coast guard to go look for them. It was actually amazing they made it since they had no real sailing skills and no running lights and no navigational devices. They navigated with a method that I had figured out. If you took a transistor radio and tuned to a channel on the signal came in clear only when the antenna was pointed toward the transmission tower. So if you turned the radio this way or that way the signal got clearer or less clear depending on where the signal was coming from so a makeshift directional device. Seriously you can't see more then a few miles over the ocean in the best conditions. Anyway most of the crew came back by air since they had gotten seasick and didn't plan on staying overnight but they had to anyway because the last flight back was at 9 pm

oldmansurfer wrote:the assistant scoutmaster wanted to sail our boat which we called the SS Rubber Ducky to Oahu from Kauai for a day trip

Eddie would go.




(Sorry, sorry, very bad taste, but I couldn't resist)

I think people have a grandiose dream and lose touch with reality trying to make it come true. I am pretty sure Eddie wouldn't go because he would have been sensible enough to know it wasn't going to go well.

I keep thinking of the Gilligan's Island theme song when I remember this trip. The assistant scout master was over confident he also tried to pull a canoe out of danger and nearly needed help to keep from getting the Rubber Ducky bashed into the rocks . Luckily he escaped without damage. He also went into shallow water and got the keel stuck in the sand and did need Coast Guard help to pull the Rubber Ducky free. He rammed the dock in the harbor because the approach is tricky. The area around the dock had no wind so you had to aim carefully from further out because the Rubber Ducky with no wind is poorly responsive to steering and there is no brakes. He also rammed the side of a large ship docked in the harbor for the same reason (no wind and too close). I guess you can see why I didn't have confidence in the skipper

The absolute best line in this story is "his only navigational aid was a street map of Southampton" BAHAHAHA

hahha Yep people can be very stupid:D It's hard to belive but it's true:D