BLUEMOMENT

I see frae y'day's Glasgae Herald that Bosun of Forth wuz rescued by the RNLI aff P'heed in 18' waves. I await Frank's explanation wi' bated breath.

Some more information here.......

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Good pic - but that doesn't look like a 13m yacht to me.

I wonder who took it?

Bosun of Forth is a slim, wooden, long keeled classic and around 40' feels about right. As to who took the piccy - I suspect that shot is on the way into P'heed.

...a sea drogue was transferred to the yacht to aid the boat's stability.

Not heard of the RNLI doing this before.

Silkie wrote:

...a sea drogue was transferred to the yacht to aid the boat's stability.

Not heard of the RNLI doing this before.

I've heard them give a drogue to a boat they were towing. It had lost its rudder and they wanted to keep it in a straight line. Slightly different to lending out kit, of course.

Bit of video here -

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I understand from Frank's Mrs that a very large wave came aboard and broke guardrails and stanchions. You can just see the stbd side dodger hanging a bit skewiff in the video. I'm not at all clear what 'passing a drogue' was all about since Bosun was clearly making progress under her own power but will get the full story in due course.

Border Maid wrote:I understand from Frank's Mrs that a very large wave came aboard and broke guardrails and stanchions. You can just see the stbd side dodger hanging a bit skewiff in the video. I'm not at all clear what 'passing a drogue' was all about since Bosun was clearly making progress under her own power but will get the full story in due course.

Who's Frank?

He's the puir soul that ('cos everyone and the boat is safe) is going to get the urine extracted unmercifully when he eventually comes out of hiding - aka the owner and skipper of Bosun of Forth as well as heid honcho of one of the most prestigious berth-holders associations in the country.

Mark wrote:
Who's Frank?

If you read the thread with proper care you would readily infer (from Marisca's post) that Frank is the Master and Commander of Bosun. (Damn, I've 'Lakesailored' Marisca)

Frank tells me that the weather went from flat calm to N 20kn and then to frequent gusts up to 38kn and the seas you see in the video over the space of an hour. His 2 crew were, respectively, (1) visually impaired and unable to steer a compass course, and (2) incapacitated by seasickness. He talked to the CG and asked if someone could escort him the last 12 miles into Peterheid as he was effectively single handed and unable to leave the cockpit to navigate. A fishing vessel offered but was stood down by the CG who dispatched the lifeboat. The drogue was to enable Bosun to maintain her course in a difficult sea; he had streamed his own drogue but it carried away so the lifeboat were lending him another one.

I hope and expect that the RNLI will record this as 'assistance given' rather than making an exaggerated claim that lives were 'saved'.

Ken, I feel chastened for my uncharitable thoughts and will try to remember this when I see Frank. Having sat in the jumble of seas off Peterhead when there wasn't 38kts of wind, my sympathy goes out to him and his crew. Does this mean he has returned to his home port?

marisca wrote:Ken, I feel chastened for my uncharitable thoughts and will try to remember this when I see Frank. Having sat in the jumble of seas off Peterhead when there wasn't 38kts of wind, my sympathy goes out to him and his crew. Does this mean he has returned to his home port?

Frank is at home having a nice rest but Bosun is still in Peterhead. He is going up in a day or two to screw stanchions back into the deck and so on, and will no doubt be bringing her back to Port Edgar (the most democratic marina in Scotland) once she's fixed up a bit.

Border Maid wrote: If you read the thread with proper care you would readily infer (from Marisca's post) that Frank is the Master and Commander of Bosun. (Damn, I've 'Lakesailored' Marisca)

Yes, I gathered that, but people seemed familiar with him and I wondered if he was a forumite. It seems he's not. He's someone from the real world.

Border Maid wrote:He talked to the CG and asked if someone could escort him the last 12 miles into Peterheid as he was effectively single handed and unable to leave the cockpit to navigate. A fishing vessel offered but was stood down by the CG who dispatched the lifeboat.

Back in the day in a gale off the CI's we radioed up St Peter Port to get them to triangulate our position. (We didn't have a Scooby.) Instead they sent a Lifeboat for us to follow, and when we had to turn directly into wind to get into St Peter Port they gave us a tow because we couldn't make any headway. We were all secretly pleased.

I can't find Frank amongst this forum's membership but he has certainly posted with erudition on TOP in the past, so I doubt whether that qualifies him as a real world inhabitant.
The boat is a Robert Clark 42.