nothing really since I sail without my glasses ... wasthinking of tying a blue ribbon or something to the mast tip to warn people who see me.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spadger
Spadger:
"this would be a term that a male can use to point out a nice looking or attractive"
It doesn't finish the sentence. Kiter perhaps?
A penguin in the middle of the Derwent River in Hobart.
A water bomber plane taking on water, long time ago in Corsica.
see plenty of flying fich during summer in warnbro sound but the best was a guy hurling his guts up while he was sailing, hooked in and all RESPECT!!!!
I saw an old German guy in Vass with speedos and a seat harness that had the straps cranked so tightly that both his nutts were flopping about outside his speedos, he was hooked in and totally oblivious to why everyone passing him was pi**ing themselves laughing
Have also seen a couple of turtles, really cool but not so weird. Weirdest thing was a little bait fish jumping out of the water onto my board and flapping around. Have been hit in the leg by jumping fish too.
Are you english by anychance
A crocodile with a transmitter on it's back.Released in our city by those forward thinking EPA fellas.
1 - In the early 90's i use to sail at Caloundra a lot, sailing through Pumicestone Passage the dolphins use to swim beside you and rub their bellies against the board. 1st time it happened i crapped!!! but after it it was a novelty, then became annoying as they would do it when going at full speed!!!
2 - my last Sail at the train on the Goldy - the strippers boat doing a session for some party goers - only time i ever perfected a gybe and successfully gone upwind!!!
seen a few cool things
16 foot hammer head shark
Crocodile
Dugongs all the time
Turtles
Jelly fish
Manta Ray
Up-turned boat with 6 guys and an esky swimming in from a couple miles out to sea
white caps...(being from darwin this doesn't happen too often)
one of my old fins which i lost in a collision...me Vs. a turtle turtle 1 me 0
man on a surf board
7 people in a blow up pool playing poker (pittwater - Melb cup day)
water spout (darwin)
Few other little things that I can't quite remember at the moment
Had a surf with a seal pup at Woolamai last weekend. Not that a seal pup is that unusual but more so the thought of what might be in close pursuit of it, given that Woolamai is just down the coast from the biggest population of "men in grey suits" in Victoria.
A few of the other guys surfing were more than happy to tell the stray pup to f@ck off and surf somewhere else...
I forgot about the beach toy thing. If you head offshore you see heaps of blow up toys. One time training off the canary islands belting along at 20knots we saw a big inflatable pool chair, skipper headed down and told me to grab it nearly ripped my arms off! Mates saw one of those three wheeled water bike that they hire out but it was 300miles from the nearest land
Saw a huge 60 ft trimaran capsize in pittwater.
Saw a boat hit overhead electric powerlines.
Sailing a yacht, pulled a sex doll out of the water. It was a sheep model. needless to say it went straight back in.
