Well if you are going to name your boat Titanic, what do you expect?
This is the moment the aptly named Titanic II lived up to expectations by sinking on her maiden voyage.
Just like the doomed liner 99 years ago, the rather more modest, 16ft cabin cruiser went down after taking on water.
Hapless owner Mark Wilkinson was left floundering as the vessel disappeared beneath the waves.
Bemused holidaymakers looked on while Mr Wilkinson, from Birmingham, was pulled out of the sea by the local harbour master.
But unlike her namesake, Titanic II was saved from a watery grave when it was later towed out of West Bay harbour in Dorset.
Mark, aged in his 40s, said afterwards: 'If it wasn't for the harbour master I would have gone down with the Titanic.
'It's all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg.'
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That which we call a rose, by any other name
That which we call a rose, by any other name
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Re: That which we call a rose, by any other name
So why did it sink?'It's all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg.'
ETA
and I'm sorry but you cannot classify any 16 foot boat as a "cabin cruiser".
Re: That which we call a rose, by any other name
Apparently, as the cabin dory boat entered the harbour a large hole opened up in the fibre-glass hull.
Ho-ho-ho-ho.
Ho-ho-ho-ho.
Bah!
Re: That which we call a rose, by any other name
Everything's smaller in the UKoldr_n_wsr wrote: ETA
and I'm sorry but you cannot classify any 16 foot boat as a "cabin cruiser".
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