Dickheads drown people, not “rogue waves”

Posted on March 16, 2012 by KG

Boat capsizes, drowns people.
‘Fishermen in Bluff’s pubs last night said boats which went to the Titi Islands were frequently loaded up with supplies to repair houses, and some questioned why there were no rules or regulations covering trips to the Muttonbird Islands.
It was more than likely that Easy Rider was heavily laden with building materials and provisions, they said.
Conditions were choppy and skipper Rewai Karetai would have known it was not a good night to sail, they said.
Claims of “rogue waves” just won’t cut it. There are always some waves much bigger than the rest and every competent skipper knows it and how to deal with it.  And the call for more regulations is very typical, very predictable and utterly pointless. Regulations never yet stopped fuckwits drowning themselves and their passengers.

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15 Responses to Dickheads drown people, not “rogue waves”

  1. pmofnz says:
    March 16, 2012 at 07:33

    Like the previous episode of “fuckwits drowning themselves and their passengers”.

    Boat was apparently found to be OK. Just except that the scuppers had blocked off.

    Obviously such actions, like a possibly overloaded boat in this case, would never affect stability…

    • KG says:
      March 16, 2012 at 07:36

      Nooo! Scuppers are for passing mooring lines through and shovelling crap overboard. What other use could they possibly have, PM?
      /sarc

  2. Adolf Fiinkensein says:
    March 16, 2012 at 09:19

    If they could just manage to drown a few more of the fuckwits then the only ones left might be intelligent enough to refrain from going out into a ‘shit storm’ in an over loaded over populated boat, with no life jackets or distress beacon.

  3. oswald bastable says:
    March 16, 2012 at 17:43

    I know I wasn’t there, but having sailed in BIG seas, I would have to put it down to:

    Sudden mechanical failure
    Not keeping a good watch

    Also, not having an EPLB rigged to activate on immersion, in this day and age is madness, given the minimal cost…

    Hard- yes- but I have been on the bad side of the hull, seeing nothing but sea and sky. Mostly sea…

  4. mara says:
    March 16, 2012 at 18:04

    It is a horrible thing for the families, no doubt, but let’s have some honesty in the media here. We have reports that this Maori family were saintly and other reports that this boat was so overladen as to have its arse at water level when it set off in bad weather. If the media could only keep a straight face and tell the truth … I would be surprised.

  5. GW says:
    March 16, 2012 at 20:17

    As I am sure you realize, KG, that to a leftie, there is no problem a new regulation can’t solve. And when that one creates new problems, well just one more . . . ad infinitum.

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      March 16, 2012 at 20:29

      Funny you should mention that, GW. I was listening to the radio this morning, and it struck me how many people believe there isn’t a problem in society that can’t be solved by another government program. Damn sheep who deserve the cattle-cars surely waiting for them.

      • Darin says:
        March 16, 2012 at 23:43

        There is only one person who can regulate stupidity-God Almighty.

        Darwin only described the mechanism ;-)

  6. Flashman says:
    March 17, 2012 at 04:57

    Knee-jerk reaction: “more and tighter government regulation”. Ye Gods!

  7. KG says:
    March 17, 2012 at 15:02

    And another. Today’s Herald:
    ‘Two adults and two children were rescued this morning after the boat they were paua diving off sank south of Raglan last night.
    The group, which included two children under the age of 10, were about to go free-diving for paua off a 4.3-metre aluminium boat when it was hit by a rogue wave and sank about 7pm yesterday..’
    :roll

  8. mara says:
    March 17, 2012 at 15:56

    I musta missed that story KG but for how long have we known that there is a safe-ish way and the Maori /Islander way of going to sea? It’s terribly liberal to say that the indigenous folk have skills as “mariners” but not quite polite to observe that they also have skills as mourners at funerals that never needed to occur. I’m being polite, as always.

    • Moist von Lipwig says:
      March 17, 2012 at 16:10

      “indigenous folk have skills as “mariners” but not quite polite to observe that they also have skills as mourners ”

      They do have a way of helping to speed evolution along it’s slow and ponderous path though.

  9. KG says:
    March 17, 2012 at 16:52

    When we lived up North in NZ and I was gamefishing, I observed enough of these clowns in overloaded boats, running out of fuel way out to sea and asking for a tow home, carrying no spares, no bailers……I could go on.
    Skills as mariners my arse. The were blown to NZ and they base this myth of being “natural seamen” on that.
    Even their ceremonial canoes overturn and sink and have to be towed to shore very frequently.

  10. KG says:
    March 17, 2012 at 16:56

    Something that amuses me greatly is the stuffed 30+ pound snapper over the bar of Kingfish Lodge up there. A local maori asked if he could have it as I was about to release it, and thinking he was going to eat it I gave it to him.
    Later, I found that he’d paraded it around town as his catch, boasting about what great fishermen maori are. He couldn’t fish for shit. :lol: