A little bit of self help ..........

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longjohnsilver

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Sat in Falmouth visitors marina quietly cooking dinner when there was a loud knocking on the hull. A Dutch chap across the pontoon demanded to know why I had unplugged his shore power and plugged ours in his place. Knowing nothing of what he was saying I shrugged and said he must be mistaken, which he quickly acknowledged he was, it was another yachtie, in fact a blue flagged yachtie who was the culprit. The Dutchman understandably was a little upset, mr blue flag response was, a little self help, and then disappeared down below!

For those that know this place, the office shuts at 5pm so without a card you can't access power. So mr Dutchman had been unplugged, and short of unplugging mr blueflag he was going to be without power for the night. Luckily for him I had a spare card which I gladly gave him. But I am still surprised that mr blueflag saw fit to unplug someone else's shore power lead and use his paid for electricity!! Surely not the done thing, regardless of circumstances. And then to shrug it off as self help!! I'm pleased I'm moored on a trot having seen some of the shenanigans here today!
 
Well, after embarassing him publicly for being a thief, in fact I would have broken out my 2 way splitter, allowing 2 boats to be on one plug.
And invited him darkly to cough up for the privilege.


Then written to his Club.



PS: I am an ex Blue Ensign warrant holder.
 
FullCircle said:
Well, after embarassing him publicly for being a thief, in fact I would have broken out my 2 way splitter, allowing 2 boats to be on one plug.
And invited him darkly to cough up for the privilege.


Then written to his Club.



PS: I am an ex Blue Ensign warrant holder.
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and then, perhaps, wedging his right clog up his arris.
 
If someone did that, and when challenged responded in that fashion to me, they'd fairly quickly find themselves short of a shore power lead to connect to anything.
 
Self help marina style. Check into our once a month or so luxury night, hand marina blokey the electric cable, go to get hose out, look at marina man who has just cut our plug off.... stunned for a second then ask what was wrong, reply of nothing but you need a special plug here, splutter lots, get our plug back, check out following day, marina man comes and replaces our plug and guess what? They tried to charge us 31 euro for "electrical assistance fees", fail on their behalf as I had the correct soddin' plug if only they'd mentioned it.... Rant over :)
 
Clearly disgraceful behaviour, but perhaps linking it to the colour of his ensign says more about your prejudice than about his ensign or club.

If he'd been black, I suspect you wouldn't have written the story about his colour; if Jewish about his race; or if hanging a Cornish 'ensign' from his transom about his separatism and localism.

Why do you link his selfish and rude behaviour to the colour of his ensign? Do you really think there's a correlation? That's not my experience.
 
Similar happened to us many moons ago when we were in the BWW marina at Blackwall. Come back from Christmas with the folks to find a visiting motorboaty man had used all our leccie. We unplugged him, got another leccie card from the office then the bugger unplugged us again only this time we caught him. Rob threw his shore power lead into the water, and I was going to throw a bucket of wee on his deck, but was prevented by several people.
 
BelleSerene said:
Clearly disgraceful behaviour, but perhaps linking it to the colour of his ensign says more about your prejudice than about his ensign or club.

If he'd been black, I suspect you wouldn't have written the story about his colour; if Jewish about his race; or if hanging a Cornish 'ensign' from his transom about his separatism and localism.

Why do you link his selfish and rude behaviour to the colour of his ensign? Do you really think there's a correlation? That's not my experience.
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That's an interesting take on it, my prejudice. My thoughts, rightly or wrongly, re blue ensigns is that I expect a higher standard of behaviour from someone who chooses to display one. That's not prejudice, just an expectation.
 
BelleSerene said:
Why do you link his selfish and rude behaviour to the colour of his ensign? Do you really think there's a correlation? That's not my experience.
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Surely the point is that the person in question is advertising an affiliation. Contrast with "white van man" who has no company name on his van so you cannot report him to his company, and just the opposite to a "how's my driving?" phone number on the back. Or, again, an antisocial schoolboy in school uniform. Etc, etc.

Mike.
 
BelleSerene said:
Clearly disgraceful behaviour, but perhaps linking it to the colour of his ensign says more about your prejudice than about his ensign or club.

If he'd been black, I suspect you wouldn't have written the story about his colour; if Jewish about his race; or if hanging a Cornish 'ensign' from his transom about his separatism and localism.

Why do you link his selfish and rude behaviour to the colour of his ensign? Do you really think there's a correlation? That's not my experience.
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What a twatty post. Accusing someone of maybe being racsist kr anti-semitic is taking it a bit far.

With two exceptions, one being a member of this parish, i have found every blue flag flyer to be fairly obnoxious, with little regard for others, and an air of superiority.

It comes as no surprise that a bluey has done this.
 
Comrade Red said:
What a twatty post. Accusing someone of maybe being racsist kr anti-semitic is taking it a bit far.

With two exceptions, one being a member of this parish, i have found every blue flag flyer to be fairly obnoxious, with little regard for others, and an air of superiority.

It comes as no surprise that a bluey has done this.
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I don't think BelleSerene was accusing anyone of racism or anti-semitism, and think you're mistaken to have read that in to his remarks. His point was that mention of the blue ensign was gratuitous and irrelevant. And so it is...unless he was indeed one of the superior types whose behaviour doesn't match the warrant. Which it didn't.
 
longjohnsilver said:
<Snip>it was another yachtie, in fact a blue flagged yachtie who was the culprit. The Dutchman understandably was a little upset, mr blue flag response was, a little self help, and then disappeared down below!

<Snip> So mr Dutchman had been unplugged, and short of unplugging mr blueflag he was going to be without power for the night.
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Which would be exactly what I would have done. - No time for tea-leafs or pooftas.
 
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