just john Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 A Real Slam Dunk [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 And I thought going up in a hot air balloon was adventurous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Somewhere I have an 8 mm film of Richard Dickson riding a tricycle off the side of the sugar cube into the Ardeche. Other parts of the holiday included caving, press so tight I had to take my clothes off. Sailing a Drancombe lugger and getting it plaining. French corvette came over and asked over tannoy if we were in difficulties. Given it was the Med in March it semed a fair question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Odd days I still think I should have accepted the commission in the Legion but it was initially in the Pay Corps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAiffricaine Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 That's old game ! I remember seeing it being done on Lake Malawi in the 1990's. You had to sit on a big tractor tyre pulled by a speed boat on full throttle. The driver of the boat would manoeuver such way that the tyre went over a sort of skateboard floating ramp and if you didn't grip hard enough on the tyre, you got a good dunking. Nearly lost one kid by drowning so eager he was to try out the contraption. I keep to hot air ballooning [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crossy67 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Wow that looks like, totally awesome dude!Did look like great fun wonder if we could organise something similar in Aubeterre on the river but without the all American teens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I jumped out of a Cessna aeroplane three times (with a parachute). Does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Yes as far as I am concerned. In a posting on air safety in another forum on France probably going up in a Cesna is probably enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crossy67 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 [quote user="Kitty"]I jumped out of a Cessna aeroplane three times (with a parachute). Does that count?[/quote]Wow, did you keep landing back in it?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 [quote user="Anton Redman"]Sailing a Drancombe lugger and getting it plaining. [/quote]Assuming you mean a Drascombe lugger, which has a displacement hull, and that you were getting it planing, how large a motor were you using?http://www.yacht-designer.co.uk/20-knotDrascombeText.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 No motor what so ever - Start point as I recall drag in water is roughly proportional to the wet area of the hull. Most of the crew were young and very fit but not experienced sailors. We had just spent two weeks canoeing and caving in the Ardeche so were not afraid of much and would and could take orders. It began as a serious money bet when Richard said he could get one planing. I know what 5 knots feels like on a boat and we sure we doing much more, like three times that than that. Anybody who went on a PGL holiday in the early '70s could probably describe Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Sorry forgot to mention almost no margin on the other side. Lean the boat then recalculate the wet area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 So long as you believe it, that's the main thing [:)]That wasn't Richard Dawson by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Another scarey story about sailing - we once had an Osprey which capsized completely (turned turtle) and I was submerged deep. Somehow got one leg tangled in one of the stays and as the boat righted itself I was hoisted up with it by the leg [:'(]Just managed to get untangled before that last jerk upright.Almost put me off sailing for life.And another time, a bit like the OP's film, I was on the trapeze and the wire snapped and I was catapulted over the jib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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