Jepara Sailing Club

FIRST SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN CLUB HISTORY

NON-MEMBER CAPTAIN WENT OUT SAILING WITH NON-MEMBER UNEXPERIENCED CREW AND BROKE HIS ARM.

Webeditors note:
The Jepara Sailing Club always has provided a standard of high safetly level.

All members are wel trained and know how to handle in emergencies, or call one of our baywatch stations.

Since non-members also start using our boats, (with or without our permission) we cannot be held responsable for fatal accidents experienced by such persons.

Here the complete story as posted by the non-member, non-experienced crew of the boat:

Louis amd Fred had made a date to go sailing at 14.30 hours, but with the usual ‘jam
karet’ we started off at 15.20 hours.

But first we had to listen to some wise words of Koos : “there may be wind or there may
be not wind” and “the wind may come from one direction but the wind may also
come from another direction” and “the wind may stay offshore, maybe not” and “be sure by offshore wind to jump on the trampoline when the boat starts moving”
With this sound advice we started off direction Bandengan and immediately did it right.

Just before the corals we went overstag (tagged, editors note) and the boat handled like a racehorse.

After a while we went overstag again and then a third time and we considered ourselves
professionals.
While we were sailing direction powerplant it happened, although what happened is still not very clear.

Louis started making a gype turn to the left whereas I thought he would turn to the right.

As a result the boat capsized and we were in the water.
Actually they made a nosedive (editors note)
I was under the trampoline so the boat must have capsized with the mast going down.

I could climb on one hull by gripping the trampoline pipe but Louis was trying to climb
the slippery hull which is not an easy thing to do.

So we were both sitting on the hull figuring out what to do.
Louis said : “grab that little piece of rope and throw it over the other hull”.

I did this but then the captain said : “no underneath the other hull and then up”.

Being an impatient man he started doing it himself but then somehow he slipped and stumbled.

When I pulled him up he mentioned that he had probably broken his wrist during the fall, and it
hurt like hell.

In the meanwhile two fishing boats came alongside but Louis was in no condition to
assist in getting the boat upright with his broken wrist.

I considered letting him go back on one off the fishing boats to go to the hospital but then luckily Koos came along with the rubber boat to take Louis first to shore.
By luck Marc was at the Bonanza to take Louis to the hospital but he had to change
first as Marc was not letting his beautiful car get all wet.

Marc later also mentioned that Louis was crying in pain but still managed to say “don’t let my little girl see me like this”.

What a brave man.
Meanwhile I was sitting on the catamaran waiting for Koos to come back, while the
two fishing boats stayed with me.

I learned that one fishing boat costs 3.5 million while these guys make about 100-150 thousand rupiah per trip, hard work.
Eventually Koos came back with PakMan and gardenman so the boat could be
pulled upright.

So now for a very short while Fred was the captain with his two mates.

But while sailing back Koos started screaming that I had to pull the ondertouw, What
the f.. is an ondertouw.

Why didn’t he just say “put that little sliding thing in the middle”
Anyway Koos decided that I was not much of a captain so he told PakMan to throw
him a rope and he pulled us all the way to shore where we had a ‘biertje’

This article was submitted by non-member “Fred Leinema” ( http://www.inproyasa.com ) and the Jepara Sailing Club can in no way be held responsable for the content, spelling and/or grammar of this article.