I caught my finger in a camber inducer yesterday.

It hurt a little!

Does that count?

it all counts........

i got a mono cut once also. made my fingernail bleed.

halfway through a vulcan in the shallows i realised i'd hooked back in again. not too sure if it was a backwards forward or just a twisted catapult. but it hurt bad

Years ago I took a sickie ( first & only time ) to go sailing at Jimmies Beach at Port Stephens in 35kts with a 2m SE swell running.I got some massive jumps but accidently hooked in on a gybe & got smashed into the boom..Luckily I was only a few feet from the land as even trying to pull the sail off the mast was almost impossible for the pain. I then had almost a 2hr drive home. The worst bit was I got back to work & had to tell them I hurt myself running into a door at home so I couldn't even get to brag about the sail..

Sailing in stormy conditions at Robe in southeast SA about 14 years ago, getting over some big whitewater and got all messed up in the air. Bailed out and ended up diving half onto the sail and dislocated my shoulder. Only realised when I went to swim for my rig and felt it pop back in. By the time I got back to the beach my arm was useless and I had to be helped out of my wettie. That night was the most pain I have ever experienced. I felt like I would have gone crazy if it didn't stop.

ooh, knigit reminded me of another one. Missed the other side of the sail on a no hand gybe in shallow water and the clew hit the bottom, causing the head of the boom to smash into my face haha. Got a nice fat lip from that one.

MrSpaggiari said...

Willy skipper, got hooked in while mid air! Landed fine still, but with mast between my legs. ouch

I have visions of Caption Comp 103 Mr. Spaggiari.

Smacked my face into my mast sometime ago in some really blown out conditions and ended up with a lip so fat someone mistook me for teapuhoo.

PS - Gestalt, I haven't been able to take you seriously since you changed your avatar to that damned cat

Learnig to do pushies in 40kts, caught a gust mid air that twisted me in a bad direction, end up accelerating back down with the wind ontop of my sail. Tried to ditch the rig but did it to late and copped the boom in the throat. Ended up punching my Adams apple out the side of my throat then knocking myself out as the boom diflected up to my jaw. And snapped by thumb. I'll tell you feeling the lights going out on you in the surf is the worst feeling I've ever had. Luckily Jason found me in the shorey face down and limp and got me out ( thanks Jase). I stuck to backies from then on

Sailing at Goolwa lake a few years back, flat out down towards barrages, water got shallow very quick, fin dug into sand, I stopped, landed hard on my boom, bad bruising on hip, managed to sail back with only one side of the boom attached to the sail......

Also managed to crack ribs 8 days into a 21 day Maui holiday last year,

Also managed to crack two ribs paddle surfing at Beachport in monster 1 foot waves

I am so hard core!

sausage said...


PS - Gestalt, I haven't been able to take you seriously since you changed your avatar to that damned cat

I agree. It's funny that it should make any difference, but it does.
The B&W art pics were sort of formal and gave you an air of authority.

Gestalt said...

i have a funny vulcan story, it's from about a year ago.

i was trying them a while back, no luck and still no luck on that front.

anyways, haircut had given me some tips so i tried one right on front of him. obviously i didn't listen to good.

i hit some chop, swivelled around and dug the nose in and catapulted in spectacular style.

it hurt!

i got to my feet and haircuts yelling out are you alright?

i said yep, and then asked what i did wrong.

hairy starts off his advice with,

when doing a forward loop you need to..........

i stopped him and explained i was trying a vulcan, he was silent and just looked at me.

p.s. 1 broken boom later

this is the only Vulcan i know

i got a couple more,

i don't want people to think i can actually do these moves. my injury come from "NOT" having the ability....

years back my friends were all doing backloops so i figured i'd give it a go also. i think i got half way round. landed on my boom face first. slightly concussed and bleeding.

the next one was a few years after that. tried a forward at the lake in very shallow water. did an endo, snapped the nose of my board, broke the boom clean in 2 and hit my head on a rock. concussion.

sailing at wello on the dreaded southern side. was pinching up the channel when i hit the reef, catapulted over the bars and landed feet first onto the reef resulting in a very deep cut to the bone of my big toe. quick trip to the docs for some stitches and 6 months of not walking properly.

was gybing at VP in the swell and some how fell off the back of the board. landed knee first onto the deck. actually that one brought tears to the eyes. no sailing for 3 weeks and lots of pain.

funny thing is padi was present at 2 of those. i blame him and no longer sail with him.

p.s. haha....i like the cat! it cracks me up. but it's a very authoritarian cat that prefers not to be taken too seriously. should see my dog

pps. dan that's intense.

ppps. probably only vulcan i'll ever know also choco.

^ ouch....

around 5 years ago i pulled a muscle in my neck while turning over in bed, did not think much about it at time as was only an a slight annoyance in terms of pain.

i went sailing with my largest board, sail + fin as wind was light.

sailing on a reach across the river i got a 5 second or so cramp in my neck,words cannot describe the pain i felt. i bailed out immediately then tried to compose myself. while trying to waterstart my neck went under the cold water and again i got another cramp in my neck.

i then managed to get on board and sailed back to carpark at lucky bay.at sandbank i couldnt sail over it due to size of fin. started to walk around sandbank and force of holding up sail triggered another 2/3 cramps of terrible pain.

at this stage i was scared to move even a foot for fear of another attack.

i held the left/side of my neck with my right hand firmly. this pressure + heat applied stopped any more cramps. i walked very slowly[no rig] around sandbank.

norman the pilot somehow got my rig back.thanks again.

waited around an hour and a half for someone to de/rig my gear.

i had not had a cramp for around 2 hours since on sandbank, although was still in appalling pain.

in trying to get into car another 5 second cramp in neck, was crying i think at this stage. remember john commenting at this latest cramp that this wasnt good.

i somehow managed to drive myself home. went to royal perth, they did full check/up then said nothing wrong, just a pinched nerve.

not had cramp in neck since, intensity of pain will remember forever.

I trod on some nasty bindi eyes the other day rigging up[}:)]