Sacred islet Rockall repels Brit adventurer's first assault Heavy seas have thwarted Brit adventurer Nick Hancock's first attempt to land on the sacred islet of Rockall, and he's beaten a retreat to St Kilda ahead of a second pop tomorrow. If he can get atop the remote granite outcrop - which lies 480km off the west coast of Scotland - Hancock plans to spend 60 days there in support of …
Since the islet is already bolted, you just need to clip on... Which could easily done with a bit of British ingenuity and a Quad copter with first person video and a detachable carabiner clip with fishing line. then once clipped on pull over a wire then decent rope. then traverse all the kit.
Not the cheapest method but probably cheaper than many round trips to keep trying to land.
Have you tried flying a quad in a 30 knot wind whilst your boat is going up and down in an 8m swell? Good luck with that. I also suspect you'd get motion sickness in about 5 seconds.
Of course, you might have been joking.
This is the kind of thing you need, but it might take a few goes...
http://www.rockrun.com/products/Beta-Clip-Stick-Extra-Long-18ft.html
One simply does not fly a quad, one sets it's gps and altitude, and leaves the rest to the computer.
Of course these days it would be trivial to design an optical target bolt for automatic targeted mating.
In fact I'm sure the navy would be very keen to purchase such a system for other ship to ship/shore requirements.
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Actually wasn't that some song by some witty Brit Steve Allen type of comedian in the 1950s? As UK readers mostly know and Yanks might not the North Atlantic is not to be f__ked with. Any body of water capable of producing a wave than almost capsized one of the biggest ships in the world that was carrying 16,000 people at the time, is not a place to land on a tiny rock and get your skull smashed in in the process.
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