Yes sadly after many months trying to organise a time that I could manage to do the course, I drove from Melbourne and unfortunately the person who was to conduct the course had been up all night with the dreaded vomiting and diarrhoea.re-tyred wrote:Wolly booked one and they were no showBlueyed1 wrote:That would be shite!!! What - you attended the cause when they had gastro???Brett wrote:
Except when they have gastro :victory:
Joe
The worst part is that while we were waiting, I rang all the contact numbers on the door only to get the dreaded answering machine, Lucky for me I had re-tryed phone number and rang him. He gave me a name who I looked up on Facebook and I tried contacting them via face book, but no luck, so I looked them up on the white pages, found a name and rang the number, fortunately it was the person who was suppose to be conducting the course, and I found out that they were unwell.
So my return to Melbourne was earlier than expected, even after all this I will still do the course, for the main reason.
I don't know what I don't know, so I expect to learn about what I don't know.
My experiences so far, include getting drowned doing the bar crossing at the Patterson river, (It is listed as a bar) Having to contend with 2 metre waves on Port Phillip, going out the heads in choppy conditions, and not to mention the Western Entrance in western port, that was like a washing machine.
But the biggest one so far was a 3-4 metre wave between Lawrance Rock and the Mainland at Portland. Landing on the other side HURT. It probably looked very spectacular to an observer, shame nobody caught it on film.
So I figure if I want to go boating, I better learn as much as I can.
A quote I read once, is that when it turns nasty most boaties head home, when this can be the time to learn how your boat handles certain conditions. I've travelled 25 k's into a easterly blowing around 35k's or more, travelling at around 8 knots, it took a fair while but the boat handled it well.
It's all about getting home alive and safely.
