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Dumbo's went sailing.

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I was fortunate enough to see this one happen right before my eyes.

As we ussually do every summer at least for a week we were on our sailboat anchored in this bay in southern part of Greece. And we saw a brand new shining 47 foot sailboat come past us. It seemed like they had no idea what they were doing so hoping something interesting would happen my family and I saterted watching. They put down the anchor well and started maneuvring towards land so they can also tie the boat to the land with a rope and get a good night's sleep. But this particular bay was infamous for its razor sharp rocks. I saw the father which is also trying to act like a captain telling his child where to tie the rope. But he didn't see the rope go under his propeller so as he was trying to make it thought. He put it into forward and started to raise the rpm. He didn't notice the rope was fouled to his prop. As he gave more rpm faster he pulled the brand new boat to the rocks.Then we saw them knocked out of their feet. Captain ran down and came up rather quickly and started yellin "We are sinking! SOS(Safety on Sea)!". Then he proceeded to deploy the liferaft and all of the emergency gear. He was ignoring the fact that he was surrounded by atleast 12 other yachts and the land was within 10 feet of the stern off the boat. Then he proceeds on cutting the line which made the matters worse. He drifted like 40 feet to the open where the water was a lot deeper. He also speeded up the process of sinking since he seplaced the big chunk of rock that was actually covering the hole with nothing. It took another 4 or 5 minutes before we weren't able to see anyhing but the masthead. I later heard that this ameteurish attemp cost our amateur captain $30,000 in order to recover the boat and another $75,000 trying to repair it.

Submitted on 04/11/2002

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Teela said:
Neutral: Personal Account

Gregory said:
Maybe Toss: Too Common
Incompetent boaters unfortunately too common.

Pilchard said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention

Alex said:
Neutral: Other
Will need to be slightly rewritten.

Bruce said:
Neutral: Personal Account

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