Accepted bront. No harpoon or negative pitch on the Wessex, only the lashings to hold the aircraft down on a moving deck.
Crab. It was dark, the FDO saw the lashing number at the furthest point on the deck move away from the aircraft, You can't monitor all the lashing numbers from the cockpit of a Wessex at night when the aim is to get airborne as soon as possible after the lashings are removed from a deck which is moving about. You were a crab and therefore cannot have had much small ship experience. Helicopter operations from a small ship is a team effort and again you are apportioning blame without the experience of being there. It was my incident and I blame no-one ... so why should you think you know better now? I suggest you stick to what you know and stop trying to be clever on a daily basis.