a bitch from a raggie

[Heckler]

same experience as us in pwllheli, theres the considerate ones and theres the f**k you ones, usually got a big fat wife and slobbish fat kids, no necks, shaven heads and pierced ears.
well maties, the pile moorers strike back, several of us have spoken to the harbour master, we take digi pix of said social vandals, send to HM, HM gives two warnings and if behaviour continues, BANNED.
stu


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[syd]

Hello Birds

Looks like the big stinkpot tarbrush is out again!

I have owned fastish powerboats for the past fifteen years and have only received friendly waves from raggies whether it be from their moorings or under sail.
I think its a personal thing amongst both windy and stinky fraternaties. You'll always get a dickhead (or two or three) no matter where you go. Its a shame, but there it is.

I've just come under the QEII bridge (0800hrs today) to find a huge Cobelfret car ferry stopped dead in the water with what looked like the captain peering down from the walkway on the side of the bridge. Alongside his bow was a yacht with a loud person bellowing up at him. "I've got my fu**ing sails up, you steer round me"!
It sounded as if the captain was trying to explain to him that he is restricted by the depth of water and he was under the assumption the windy now under his bows was under power.
I must admit, there was still quite a noticable plume of diesel smoke exiting the rear of the sail boat as I passed.

Ho hum...


Syd

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[Guest]

How about a bitch from a Stinkie? (Actually my petrols don't stink but thats another story)

I was kept awake for hours last weekend by that ****** CLANKING. In the end we had to shut all the ports and vents for a bit of peace, just what you want on a warm night.

Why oh why can't they tie the halyards(?) so that they don't bang on the mast? What must the noise be like inside their boat?

Geoff

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[peterb]

It's just a pleasant tintinabulation!

Mind you, I'm deaf, but my crew aren't (or should that be isn't). So for their benefit we have strops fastened to the deak grab handles, and always take the halyards down to eye splices on the strops. It's easier than trying to pull the halyards away from the mast, and we don't need extra sail ties. I wish everyone else did it, though!

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[BrendanS]

I love the noise of marina's and moorings with saily boats, just like curlews and oystercatchers. It means I'm on my boat, and all the multitude of stresses of the week fade away.

It's more of a comforting sound than an annoying one, but I can understand it would drive some people mad


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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

I try my best to stop the clanking and chinese water type torture of halyard slapping the mast, but sometimes it seems there is nothing I can do. I have elastic to hold them away from the mast but in some winds because I am shortening the halyard so to speak I get a higher fequency slap at the top of the mast, removing the elastic gives a slower thudding type slap.

Believe me, when trying to sleep in the cabin, the slapping drives me nuts too, please don't assume we all don't attempt to eliminate the noise, nature has a way of undoing the best attempts.

To turn circle, my mooring is directly opposite the marina outer pontoons, maybe 200 ft. Do you know how loud bow thrusters sound from that distance from the big stinkpits, there a a few boats in Pwllheli who seem to think it would be wasteful not to fully utilise their thrusters at 0200 for a minimum of 5 minutes of back and forth manouvering. Why can't they make a silent thruster, it is only an electric motor, why the hell are they so loud?

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