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Only the current issue is copied here...December 2, 2009
Greetings to all the Foggers everywhere
Some news
• 2010 Rendezvous will be held June 18-20 at Brentwood Bay Marina near Butchart's Gardens. Details in the New Year. Mark your calendars!
• Carbon Monoxide (CO) Dangers ..a letter from Claude Wreford-Brown (Ariidae)
Good morning Dear Foggy Foggers:
As you may know I manage a busy Hyperbaric Chamber in Seattle.
Treat about 25 patients a day for various disease states as well as
about 50 cases of the bends and 50+/- cases of Carbon Monoxide
poisonings a year.
Couple of nights ago treated two boys with very high CO levels
secondary to CO poisoning from a 30 minute exposure from an Atomic
4 leaky exhaust. They were in the V-berths on an Ericson 29. One
lost consciousness. Luckily the boat was coming into harbor so the
parents came below just in time otherwise..
Lessons learned:
CO is odorless. the parents didn't know anything was wrong until
they saw the kid on the floor. Just 'cos you don't smell it don't
mean its not there.
CO is isodense ( about the same molecular weight as air) so it
doesn't layer ( IE like propane)
You get CO poisoning from incomplete combustion. That includes
gasoline/ diesel/ propane as well as charcoal briquets.
Beware of negative pressure from moving vessels ( Bernoulli's
Principal) pulling CO back into the boat. We have written papers on
kids dying in the back of pickups and we have treated a least a
couple of sailors (power boaters) who got the same effects in the
back of boats.
Ventilate, Ventilate, Exhaust.
Bottom line:
Check your exhaust system and get a CO detector.
Have you changed the battery in your home detector yet this fall?
Hope to see you all again socially but not professionally.
All the best and a happy Christmas to my Foggy Friends
Claude Wreford-Brown
Catfisher Ariidae
For some reason I can never reply to the FOG Yahoo Group....
Claude Wreford-Brown ACHRN
Manager
Center for Hyperbaric Medicine H4-CHM
Virginia Mason Medical Center
925 Seneca Street
Seattle, WA 98111
Phone: (206) 583-6543
Fax : (206) 223-8804
• Notice of motion TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY (I think) (Received from a member following the 2009 Fall Rendezvous held in Sidney, B.C.
I look forward to presenting my case before your honor [The Commodore, unofficial] in June of next year. That should be ample time to accumulate evidence and research precedent. Perhaps one of the accused peers might care to represent her?
Sincerely etc etc Claude Wreford-Brown (Ariidae)
Reply from T. Milne (Katzenjammer)
Dear Master and Commander, SS Ariidae
Subject only to any to any comments and reservations presented by the Senior Officer Afloat and Higher Authority, I would like to thank you for your Notices of Grave Offences and Misdemeanors aboard the good ship Ariidae. It was for issues such as these that Her Royal Majesty caused the promulgation of the Queen's Regulations and Orders (QR&O's) pursuant to the maintenance of Good Order and Discipline amongst her fleets.
It would seem that much of what has been reported should be dealt with under Section 118 of QR&O's pertaining to Conduct, Acts and Negligence to the prejudice of Good Order and Discipline, which offences may be dealt with by Summary Trial by Commanding Officer within the maximum scale of punishments prescribed therein.
For the more heinous offences noted below, including Inciting Mutiny (in this case involving the third member of the crew, a very vicious individual who has been observed woofing down a whole spare rib in one gulp) and also reported separately, an Act of Self Decoration Without the Prior Approval of the Commanding Officer, then indeed it will be necessary to convene a Board of Inquiry where I will be pleased to Preside and examine the evidence pertaining to the alleged act of placing an unauthorized ink inscription on the skin of the upper thigh and hip. It goes without saying that this evidence will require the most careful, long and complete examination and observation in the minutest detail before any findings can possibly be presented.
From your further Report of Proceedings (below) regarding Disobedience or Failure in Carrying Out a Lawful Command it can only be assumed that the appropriate CNS Form 1108 (Report of Collision or Grounding of Her Majesty's Vessel ) will be forthcoming so that due judgement made be made regarding the Sobriety, Competence and Diligence of all involved.
I have the Honour to be,
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant
Terrence C R Milne (Former Naval Person)
THE ORIGINAL COMPLAINT received Monday, September 14, 2009
From: Claude Wreford-Brown
Mutiny at Sea
Maritime Law is very specific in defining mutiny as A rising against lawful or constituted authority. The offense is similar to the crime of sedition, which is a revolt or an incitement to revolt against established authority, punishable by both state and federal law. It is the unlawful resistance of a superior officer, or the raising of commotions and disturbances on board of a ship against the authority of its commander. Historically the act of mutiny was punished by whipping round the fleet and hanging.
The issue continues to be raised in the field of recreational boating, most specifically on heavy displacement sailing vessels with reverse rake pilot houses where the authority of the Master is too frequently in dispute. Despite advances in crew conditions that were unimaginable in the days of Nelson, Drake or Bligh insurrection still rears its ugly head.
I think it important for FOG as a leading nautical authority to make a position statement defining mutiny and providing civil penalties for such insurrection.
Some examples of contemporary mutiny are:
Observations beginning with “I told you…” especially ending“…it was making a strange noise, you old coot.”
Refusal to obey direct commands to insert oneself between the vessel and the dock as a human fender.
Refusal to obey direct commands to make a static 12 foot leap onto a greasy wooden dock.
Inciting others to mutiny
Criticizing the Master when he uses the power pedestal or dock box as a “fender of last resort”.
Any remark concerning the toilet seat.
Disparaging comments on the Masters choice of head wear or clothing.
Observations made on the Masters inability to differentiate between the deck fills for water and fuel. It is well known that a little diesel in your freshwater supply makes a fine emollient to dry skin and a useful boost to one’s digestive tract.
I would respectfully suggest that this dangerous affront on nautical authority be on the agenda at the next formal meeting of The Fisher Owners Group.
I have a particular defaulter whom I would like to prosecute at the Captain's Report, Captain Milne presiding, at that time and am prepared to cite several heinous examples of subversion, incitement to rebellion and treason on the high seas against her. Punishment to be decided by a jury of her peers.
Sedition is afloat and it is our responsibility, nay duty, to prosecute and punish such behavior.
Respectfully
Claude Wreford-Brown, Master, Ariidae
• Last word
