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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by erk__ »

nixass wrote: post #18
matsemann wrote: post #2

At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. I've once sailed a smaller boat with a centerboard that didn't release. So similar to not having a rudder. Quite scary, everything else have a backup, but without that thing sticking out below the boat you're just drifting aimlessly around.

> At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. *Vasa

Unless if it was a massive piece of crispbread.

Do you have any idea of why the spelling was changed if you look in older texts a lot of the time Wasa was was used.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by checkyoursudo »

nixass wrote: post #18
matsemann wrote: post #2

At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. I've once sailed a smaller boat with a centerboard that didn't release. So similar to not having a rudder. Quite scary, everything else have a backup, but without that thing sticking out below the boat you're just drifting aimlessly around.

> At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. *Vasa

In Swedish, the v and the w only became distinct pretty recently. There are still people alive today who don't know which to pick if they don't already know how a v-sounding word is spelled. Also, the same person might say "Vilma" one day and "Wilma" the next, just as an example of the confusion (and Wilma is their own daughter...) Also, also, I have had older Swedes be completely unable to hear a difference between v and (English-pronounced) w.

>.<

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by bombcar »

michaelt wrote: post #11
justinclift wrote: post #4

> The next day, as we approached the French coast, we radioed for another boat to help us enter the port, but no one responded positively. Wonder if that's a standard (or common) response, and why... ?

Presumably the norms for rendering aid are different when the ship is no longer in distress, and has been towed for two days.

I also assume the sailors felt they'd taken enough of the Götheborg's time and were willing to pay for a launch to bring their ship in for repair (also presumably it would be quite hard for a large sailboat to drag a small one literally to port).

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by checkyoursudo »

erk__ wrote: post #21
nixass wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. *Vasa

Unless if it was a massive piece of crispbread. Do you have any idea of why the spelling was changed if you look in older texts a lot of the time Wasa was was used.

For a long time, the v and w were basically indistinct, until some decades ago. I don't remember exactly when. There might even be a law about it.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by erk__ »

bombcar wrote: post #16

The Star of India is set to set sail in November; perhaps it can do something similar. https://sdmaritime.org/visit/the-ships/star-of-india/

The Danish training ship Georg Stage is out a trip at the moment, I think they are on their way to the Faroe Islands.

https://georgstage.dk/english/

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by niklasjansson »

We had planned to have our wedding performed on Götheborg, it was all planned. We got a tour of the ship and discussed catering and so on.

Suddenly a few months prior to the wedding they ghosted us, until they finally decided we couldn't hire it after all. Maybe a covid thing.

Anyway, no bad feelings.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by acadapter »

checkyoursudo wrote: post #22
nixass wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At least it wasn't Wasa showing up.. *Vasa

In Swedish, the v and the w only became distinct pretty recently. There are still people alive today who don't know which to pick if they don't already know how a v-sounding word is spelled. Also, the same person might say "Vilma" one day and "Wilma" the next, just as an example of the confusion (and Wilma is their own daughter...) Also, also, I have had older Swedes be completely unable to hear a difference between…

V and W were considered two graphic variants of the same letter until about two decades ago.

The W sound was lost centuries ago but reintroduced with English words.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by belorn »

timonoko wrote: post #27

Swedes are cheating as they always do. This sailship has a motor in it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/mXX4YiQ3u455YNni8

The original method is to use many smaller ships to guide and drag the ship to where it need to be whenever the sails are not suitable (that and wait for better weather conditions). If they had used this original method, the sailing boat would had been rescued by those ships.
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