Would one receive a bill in a situation like this? To cover the cost of lost time and/or extra diesel burned? Or is it purely out of the goodness of the hearts of the management of the towing vessel?
Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
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#92Would one receive a bill in a situation like this? To cover the cost of lost time and/or extra diesel burned? Or is it purely out of the goodness of the hearts of the management of the towing vessel?
Not to my knowledge, and certainly not for boats like the small yacht being towed here. The idea is that if the it happened to you someone else would help.
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#93It's worth knowing that in a bind you can fashion a rudder out of a line and a bucket.
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#94It's worth knowing that in a bind you can fashion a rudder out of a line and a bucket.
Huh?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah and that's further than it looks. I doubt the smaller vessel would have enough line on board to reach that! It's really far. Of course with two boats easy to find enough line.
For commercial vessels like Götheborg they usually bring many hundreds of meters of mooring lines. Easy to get 20-30m runs on several lines when mooring.
yeah makes sense. That is least a few hundred meters!
Unless I were to start using halyards, I probably do not have more than 300' of line on my boat, which is really way more than I need for a smaller boat.
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#96Would one receive a bill in a situation like this? To cover the cost of lost time and/or extra diesel burned? Or is it purely out of the goodness of the hearts of the management of the towing vessel?
Not to my knowledge, and certainly not for boats like the small yacht being towed here. The idea is that if the it happened to you someone else would help.
And sometimes what goes around comes around happens quicker than expected!
Different scale, different waterways, but a couple of weeks after spending half an hour dragging a boat off a fallen tree, I got a tow off a trip boat full of people eating Christmas dinner after losing power in the middle of the Thames...
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#97It's worth knowing that in a bind you can fashion a rudder out of a line and a bucket.
Huh?
Yes, the first line of the article. The rudder on the yacht fell off, so they were towed. In the middle of the pacific, the likelihood of a tow is low. In that case, you can fashion a rudder out of a line and a bucket.
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#98So they have sails on the Götheborg, but aren't actually using them? Basically it is a motorized indiaman. Meh.
I have sailed on the Oosterschelde (1918). One journey I was supposed to be on was cancelled as the diesel engine broke down and the insurance is not valid without a functional engine, even though we would sail 99% of the time.
The Oosterschelde once rescued a single sailor from his boat that was sinking in the middle of the Atlantic (I wasn’t on that trip).
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#99It's worth knowing that in a bind you can fashion a rudder out of a line and a bucket.
Huh?
The drag introduced by the bucket would help align your boat as a makeshift drogue. If you can find a way to rig it up so you can adjust the angle from port to starboard, you could very roughly steer.
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#100https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6theborg_(ship) Fysa, they almost certainly completed the rescue using their twin 500hp diesels rather than sail power. One sailboat towing another creates a host of sail/wind/wave issues. Almost every large sailing vessel, including historic replicas, has diesel engines for those times that sail is just too awkward.
On an open water moving under sails is not very different from moving under engine, except sailig boat deals better with waves because od stabilising effect of wind pressure. I often see how people under power hoist a mainsail for improved stability.