A little breathing space please

[sailaboutvic]

We anchored in a very large bay on Corsica I reckon you could fit 50 boats each having a large gap between them.
There 7 boats at anchor all well spaced out .
In comes boat number 8 and anchors ended up a boat and a half from us ,
Straight away he got his son and wife to put fenders out
Boat number 9 comes in a little later and anchors the other side of us also ended up very close , he too puts his fenders out .

I'm not the only one who notice it , A French guy from a yacht further down pass stop to ask if we was given free wine out , it took me a min to click what he meant as he pointed to the other two boats both side of me .
It's much to hot to complain and ask them to move a bit , One Would think for the sake of their own boat they wouldn't want to be that close .
Maybe it's something to do with this herd immunity I keep hearing about .

 

[prv]

I get that occasionally in the Solent. Some people seem to be unable to make their own decisions about where to anchor, so they come and cosy up to another boat instead.

Pete

 

[johnalison]

It is the same with car parks and everywhere. We were once the only boat in Hamford water, which must be about a square mile. Three blokes in a small boat anchored a few feet away and started to natter away in the cockpit, midday in January. We moved, pointedly, and re-anchored in peace.

 

[RichardS]

We anchored in a very large bay on Corsica I reckon you could fit 50 boats each having a large gap between them.
There 7 boats at anchor all well spaced out .
In comes boat number 8 and anchors ended up a boat and a half from us ,
Straight away he got his son and wife to put fenders out
Boat number 9 comes in a little later and anchors the other side of us also ended up very close , he too puts his fenders out .

I'm not the only one who notice it , A French guy from a yacht further down pass stop to ask if we was given free wine out , it took me a min to click what he meant as he pointed to the other two boats both side of me .
It's much to hot to complain and ask them to move a bit , One Would think for the sake of their own boat they wouldn't want to be that close .
Maybe it's something to do with this herd immunity I keep hearing about .

They recognise a friendly fellow like you Vic, even from a distance, and want to cosy up.

Richard

 

[Clancy Moped]

What flag/reg are they flying, I reckon I can guess, but I'll keep that to myself