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13 October 2006, 18:37
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Country: Canada
Town: Tobermory, Canada eh
Boat name: Verius
Make: Zodiac Hurricane 590
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F150
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,313
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Baby Pictures...
I'm new to this forum, but I thought I would share this picture of my Hurricane 590. This is taken at Cove Island on Lake Huron, in the Great Lakes. The area is now National Park, so none of these islands will ever be developed. The area has a number of 19th century shipwrecks and is a popular freshwater diving area...
The lighthouse in the background is one of several "Empire" lights, built in the 1880s. This was the first operational one, and the last to become automated in 1991. The last keeper still lives in Tobermory and if you ask him nicely, he'll lend his key, so you can take in the view from the top of the light!
There are a few Ribs in Tobermory.. the Coasties use a 733, and a tour company uses a 630 I/O and a 930 1/O. There is one other 590, but it sits idly at it's dock and is rarely used. The operator of that boat fell overboard two years ago while moving along at half throttle. The boat disappeared over the horizon with a full tank of gas. Rumours persisted about it being flattened by a freighter or stolen, but it was eventually located run up on shore on an island 50 miles away, the following spring. It was undamaged and the theory is that it ran out of fuel, eventually froze into the ice and was gently deposited on the island. At any rate, a fresh battery, and some fresh fuel and the folks drove it home unscathed! The moral is that one really should use that little kill-chord!
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14 October 2006, 13:05
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Winnipeg
Make: Gemini Dive 470
Length: 4m +
Engine: 40hp Yamaha 2 str
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,901
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Nice looking rig Stoo! Outside of the B.C. coast, RIBs are still a fairly rare sight in Canada.
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14 October 2006, 21:26
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Country: Other
Town: Oakley
Boat name: Zerstörer
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: Suzuki DF 140
MMSI: 235050131
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 3,931
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Like the story.
If that happened in the Uk. The RIB would have been stripped of every non nailed down thing, tubes slashed and hull spray painted.
Thats before a youf smoked the fuel and a singel mother turned the hull in to a pram to take back to her free house.
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14 October 2006, 21:46
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Tobermory, Canada eh
Boat name: Verius
Make: Zodiac Hurricane 590
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F150
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,313
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles
Like the story.
If that happened in the Uk. The RIB would have been stripped of every non nailed down thing, tubes slashed and hull spray painted.
Thats before a youf smoked the fuel and a singel mother turned the hull in to a pram to take back to her free house.
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Man that's harsh! I thought you Brits were all so civilized!
The truth is, the missing 590 was found on Lonely Island... which is aptly named. It's right in the middle of Georgina Bay and has very few visitors! The cool thing is that the guy who "lost" it had claimed the loss on his insurance. When the boat was found, the CG tracked him down, and after he contacted the insurer, they basically told him that they didn't want it, so he bought it back for next to nothing. He had already replaced it with an Avon....! (He did have to go and retrieve it, mind you...)
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14 October 2006, 21:52
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Tobermory, Canada eh
Boat name: Verius
Make: Zodiac Hurricane 590
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F150
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,313
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Quote:
Originally Posted by prairie tuber
Outside of the B.C. coast, RIBs are still a fairly rare sight in Canada.
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I don't imagine that they are too common in Winter-peg anyway! Thanks for sending this lovely weather our way incidently! I am beached today with a gale blowing outside with lovely snowsqualls! RIB or no RIB, I'm spending the day by the fire, sipping hot rum and apple cider!
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15 October 2006, 14:06
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Country: Canada
Town: Winnipeg
Make: Gemini Dive 470
Length: 4m +
Engine: 40hp Yamaha 2 str
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,901
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoo
I don't imagine that they are too common in Winter-peg anyway!
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There's a small handful of Hurricanes in the 6m range, between the Coast Guard (Lake Winnipeg), RCMP, and the Winnipeg Fire Department, but private RIBs and even SIBS are not common around here.
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15 October 2006, 14:07
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Winnipeg
Make: Gemini Dive 470
Length: 4m +
Engine: 40hp Yamaha 2 str
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,901
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...and oh yeah, keep the pics coming! 
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15 October 2006, 15:17
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Newfoundland
Length: no boat
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 2,098
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoo
I don't imagine that they are too common in Winter-peg anyway! Thanks for sending this lovely weather our way incidently! I am beached today with a gale blowing outside with lovely snowsqualls! RIB or no RIB, I'm spending the day by the fire, sipping hot rum and apple cider!
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It's been a balmy 19C here in the Far East for the last day! 
Never seen a pleasure rib here in NL. There are a few operated by tour/whale watching operators and the coastguard have Zodiac 733's with twin 150's for SAR. Had a ride in one this summer as a casualty which is a bit of an extreme way to get a ride in a RIB!
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Out of the fog......
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16 October 2006, 00:51
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Member
Country: Canada
Town: Tobermory, Canada eh
Boat name: Verius
Make: Zodiac Hurricane 590
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F150
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,313
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
It's been a balmy 19C here in the Far East for the last day!
Never seen a pleasure rib here in NL. There are a few operated by tour/whale watching operators and the coastguard have Zodiac 733's with twin 150's for SAR. Had a ride in one this summer as a casualty which is a bit of an extreme way to get a ride in a RIB! |
I read of your trip courtesy of the CG. I'm glad you are OK! What part of The Rock are you calling home? I was doing some archeological diving at Red Bay, Labrador four years ago and then spent two weeks on the west coast around Gros Morne. The only boat I was out in there was a sea kayak!
Speaking of the Coast Guard, if I had $1 everytime I get flagged down by some stranded/sinking/lost boater, I'd be... well, less broke than I am. I'm think of getting the tubes painted.... " NOT Coast Guard"!
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16 October 2006, 11:57
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,788
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Maybe you should start up a recovery business!!!
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