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OFFSHORE ANGLING => Skipper's talk => Topic started by: Capt. Hook on December 19, 2011, 07:22:19 PM

Title: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Capt. Hook on December 19, 2011, 07:22:19 PM: Here are pics of the pilot boat that ran aground off Durban late yesterday
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Capt. Hook on December 19, 2011, 07:23:29 PM: More pics.
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Toppie on December 19, 2011, 08:46:09 PM: So FA, I suppose we dont have to ask how and why this happened, - or did it being festive season have something to do with it swr :beer:
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: SAfish on December 20, 2011, 07:39:17 AM: :shk Hectic. What happened?
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: dugong on December 20, 2011, 08:02:34 AM: Its Lufaked now - BEE driver, possibly the same one that drove the tug into the wharf a few years back??
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: SAfish on December 20, 2011, 08:25:22 AM: Quote from: dugongboy on December 20, 2011, 08:02:34 AM
Its Lufaked now - BEE driver, possibly the same one that drove the tug into the wharf a few years back??
:hyst: :hyst: :hyst: Sharp!
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: TUNAMAN on December 20, 2011, 08:55:21 AM: Quote from: dugongboy on December 20, 2011, 08:02:34 AM
Its Lufaked now - BEE driver, possibly the same one that drove the tug into the wharf a few years back??
Too sharp ..... :rotfl :rotfl
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: TUNAMAN on December 20, 2011, 08:56:10 AM: I bet it is going to be some stupid story of running out of fuel, dronk skipper or no qualified skipper etc.
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Post by: broken back on December 20, 2011, 09:11:05 AM: samee BEE
he was taken of before for making a ballsup
his the one that bumped or must i say the one that hit the ship quite hard in the bay . pilot boat had to go for repairs after that.
eish its a dicult taxi this
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Post by: shagnrelease on December 20, 2011, 10:48:37 AM: :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: EPIC FAIL!!
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Post by: Manuel Junior on December 20, 2011, 10:51:46 AM: :shk :shk
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Capt. Hook on December 20, 2011, 06:09:42 PM: From what I heard viz was bad and he lost his way. :shk
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Rory mundy on December 20, 2011, 08:07:28 PM: Quote from: Fishing Adventures on December 20, 2011, 06:09:42 PM
From what I heard viz was bad and he lost his way. :shk

to the wheel house? or to his electronics
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Toppie on December 20, 2011, 08:15:18 PM: Like to see him (the driver) explain that as an excuse to a competent board of enquiry.

Suppose he didn't have radar, nautical map, and gps?
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: Capt. Hook on December 20, 2011, 08:25:09 PM: Quote from: Toppie on December 20, 2011, 08:15:18 PM
Like to see him (the driver) explain that as an excuse to a competent board of enquiry.

Suppose he didn't have radar, nautical map, and gps?
Thats what you get when you have BE just for the sake of BE instead of competent people to do the job.
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: dugong on December 21, 2011, 08:10:23 AM: Quote from: Fishing Adventures on December 20, 2011, 06:09:42 PM
From what I heard viz was bad and he lost his way. :shk

Yep, he thought that south pier was north pier (from a semi reliable source).
Title: Re: Pilot Boat run aground of Durban
Post by: plonker on December 21, 2011, 08:20:37 AM: hi, I suspect he used to drive a taxi :cnfzd