Comments on: Still having good luck. http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/ The reality of adventure in a small boat Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:50:57 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jerryo http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-745 jerryo Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:49:59 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-745 Shame about the gooseneck, nathan. Good luck getting it fixed. I am away cruising round Ireland for the next 2 weeks so wont be able to keep up with the news. Hope you get some good weather through the caledonian canal as it is quite beautiful. No tangling with Nessie! Shame about the gooseneck, nathan. Good luck getting it fixed. I am away cruising round Ireland for the next 2 weeks so wont be able to keep up with the news. Hope you get some good weather through the caledonian canal as it is quite beautiful. No tangling with Nessie!

]]> By: Will http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Will Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:34:57 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-746 I suddenly recall a Roger Taylor comment about sweeps. :) Glad you ended up no worse off than you did - it could have been a much scarier outcome without the outboard I'm sure. Think it's a quick repair? I suddenly recall a Roger Taylor comment about sweeps. :)

Glad you ended up no worse off than you did – it could have been a much scarier outcome without the outboard I’m sure.

Think it’s a quick repair?

]]> By: Andy Williamson http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Andy Williamson Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:41:57 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-747 Hi Nathan, really pleased to have found your website and realy pleased you're getting on so well now - goose neck excepted, after the stop at Wells (I have the Westerly ketch that was in the boat park while you were there). We've managed quite a lot of sailing and wish I'd discovered it years ago! Regards Andy Hi Nathan, really pleased to have found your website and realy pleased you’re getting on so well now – goose neck excepted, after the stop at Wells (I have the Westerly ketch that was in the boat park while you were there). We’ve managed quite a lot of sailing and wish I’d discovered it years ago!

Regards

Andy

]]> By: nathanleefloats http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-748 nathanleefloats Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:03:45 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-748 I think it would have gone anyway. The running rigging didn't move, the kicker didn't slip, it just sheared off. That's 38 year old spars for you I guess. I think it would have gone anyway. The running rigging didn’t move, the kicker didn’t slip, it just sheared off. That’s 38 year old spars for you I guess.

]]> By: Ken http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Ken Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:27:34 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-751 Well Nathan, I don't like saying I told you so (actually I love it) but that would never have happened if you had had it the right way up... Seriously mate, what a bummer, hope you can get a decent fix and glad it wasn't more of a disaster. Welcome to the 'I had a broken gooseneck in the North Sea' Club. There are quite a lot of members. Well Nathan, I don’t like saying I told you so (actually I love it) but that would never have happened if you had had it the right way up…
Seriously mate, what a bummer, hope you can get a decent fix and glad it wasn’t more of a disaster. Welcome to the ‘I had a broken gooseneck in the North Sea’ Club. There are quite a lot of members.

]]> By: Ocean Escape http://onkudu.com/sailing-logs/around-britain-2009/still-having-good-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Ocean Escape Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:10:04 +0000 http://onkudu.com/2009/08/29/still-having-good-luck/#comment-749 Better that it broke in daylight close to a safe port than out at sea at night... I'd call that good luck! Better that it broke in daylight close to a safe port than out at sea at night…

I’d call that good luck!

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