7 Tips for avoiding damage to your yacht

Little Grebe said:
Demonstrating a firm grasp of the obvious :cool:

https://www.ybw.com/features/7-tips-for-avoiding-damage-to-your-yacht-71572?utm_campaign=20190115_YBW-X_NWL_EO%20_20190115_YBW-X_NWL_EO&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ET
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That could be summed up as "mind how you go".
There seems to be a trend for such non-specific advice. I've searched youtube for help in fixing a few things recently. Many videos go along the lines of "Use the proper tools in the approved manner making sure that the correct sequence is followed".
 
I only read to No.1. The only damage my boat has ever sustained other than hitting unsighted concrete in the Canal du Midi was in marinas. Bent stanchions and collisions caused by other boats. Fairleads and cleats ripped out by wash from other boats.
 
It is similar to how to avoid car park damage. If you have a choice, always park next to the smartest car around.

Keep clear of charter boats. These can be identified by: very small ensign, large number of occupants, no club burgee, strange house flag that may be the same as others nearby, scuff marks on hull, boat is one of the common marques eg Benjebav.
 
I laughed when I saw the suggestion that we should get our masts down if warned of bad storm. At our "local" marina they can maybe move 5 a day to enable crane to access mast - so we would need many weeks advance warning to do the whole lot. If ashore in winter then only the front row can be accessed without removing all the other boats in turn and maybe putting them in water for want of anywhere else.

On my swinging mooring or my trot mooring i doubt we could get a crane to the boat, and faced with a coming very bad storm I would be most ill advised to make long open sea journeys to a suitable marina based crane.

Faced with advice of such low value I feel the insurer would rather we paid our insurance premium but never stepped the mast, put the boat in the water or even took it out of the boatyard.
 
I'm sure that article looked like it would be a good idea. But the end result is so pathetic and banal that somebody in the YBW office should have had the courage to feed it to the virtual shredder and make sure it never saw the light of day again
 
Bru said:
I'm sure that article looked like it would be a good idea. But the end result is so pathetic and banal that somebody in the YBW office should have had the courage to feed it to the virtual shredder and make sure it never saw the light of day again
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You have to wonder who they think their audience is!
 
Bru said:
I'm sure that article looked like it would be a good idea. But the end result is so pathetic and banal that somebody in the YBW office should have had the courage to feed it to the virtual shredder and make sure it never saw the light of day again
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Chapter 1 of Sailing for Dummies ?

I appreciate the intention, but the delivery is low on merit. The demographic of the article is confused.
 
I don't think I've criticised on of the YBW magazines before but that is a spectacularly silly article. Are they writing for dinghy sailors "Unstep your mast if forecast is bad", guests on a charter boat, "Make sure your captain knows certain obstacles could be underwater", or who?

If they had thought for a second about their audience - e.g. Beginner owners or first time charterers or very experienced owners looking for new tips then fine, but not that unfocused drivel.
 
tico said:
'20 years experience'.... of what?
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Putting insurance claims into the correct column of a big spreadsheet.

That's clearly the source material for this nonsense - a list of seven common causes for insurance claims.

Had it been presented as such - just a table of the most common types of accidents as seen by an insurance company, with a paragraph of introduction, it would have been a valid if unspectacular article. Instead a pair of non-sailors have got together to try to pad it into something else, and come up with this piece of ludicrous drivel.

Pete
 
Dare I suggest that it is, in fact, a paid for piece written and supplied by the mentioned boat insurance company? If so, it's what keeps these fora going. Probably best just to roll eyes and carry on as you were.
 
oldmanofthehills said:
I laughed when I saw the suggestion that we should get our masts down if warned of bad storm. At our "local" marina they can maybe move 5 a day to enable crane to access mast - so we would need many weeks advance warning to do the whole lot. If ashore in winter then only the front row can be accessed without removing all the other boats in turn and maybe putting them in water for want of anywhere else.

On my swinging mooring or my trot mooring i doubt we could get a crane to the boat, and faced with a coming very bad storm I would be most ill advised to make long open sea journeys to a suitable marina based crane.

Faced with advice of such low value I feel the insurer would rather we paid our insurance premium but never stepped the mast, put the boat in the water or even took it out of the boatyard.
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Ah but then the next boat along, whose owner hasn't listened to the forecast so left his mast up, would blow over on to yours and write it off anyway....
 
kayenox said:
"Make sure your captain has prior knowledge of the area you’re sailing in"

Ahh, nothing like the spirit of adventure that propels the seafaring spirit of this island nation.
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Make sure you have a full set of up to date charts if sailing in uncharted waters? :rolleyes:


"Make sure your captain knows certain obstacles could be underwater" . . .
(and that others could be above the water :D)
 
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