A small Scottish incident with an anchor - what would you have done?

[Railbob]

Dylan, I'm heading up that direction next week , I might just pop in and say hello, if perchance he is not amenable to my visit and starts his nonsense I may have to land and warn him that his behaviour contravenes Sec 38 of the Criminal Justice and licensing Act 2010 or the good ole B.O.P. (Common Law) of which I'm empowered by Her Majesty and the Scottish Government to enforce. :encouragement: I cannot stand these east coast Edinburghers as according to most I'm a weegie polis b**tard. LOL

 

[Seven Spades]

I think I would have stood on the stern until he stopped shouting however long it took. The when he stopped shouting would have called over that he has a lovely cottage; and ask if he goes cottaging regularly.

 

[bedouin]

Followed by some skinny dipping from the back of the boat. Splendid ��

Perhaps that is what he was wanting to do

 

[Keen_Ed]

P.G. Wodehouse

“It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”

 

[laika]

my very point about it sounding so much better and more powerful in Scottish from a Scotsman than from an Englishman politely apologising as he reverses out of the anchorage

At that distance you might have easily been confused with Ronnie Pickering. I'd have gone with the bluff...

 

[dylanwinter]

At that distance you might have easily been confused with Ronnie Pickering. I'd have gone with the bluff...

 

[macd]

P.G. Wodehouse

“It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.”

That leaves me deeply gruntled.

 

[Shuggy]

I anchor in that bay frequently and have never had any issues. Perhaps DW should have named his exploits KTR? It may be the L that's causing issues? ;-)

 

[Billjratt]

Perhaps Rumplestiltskin was worried about the seabed ecology and was suggesting that visitors used one of the free moorings rather than anchor. I think we should revisit regularly just to make sure nothing untoward happens to his dinghy in case he gets marooned there ...forever.

 

[Ludd]

I'm afraid I would have told him to **** off and gone ahead and anchored.
I'm not very pc, and not very tolerant if I think someone is taking the piss. Which I would assume he was, thinking he owns the view.

+1

 

[Uricanejack]

I have never encountered it before - and it came hot on the heels of my explaining the exemplary system of access rights in geographically enlightened Scotland

then to encounter an angry toff telling us to sling our hook came as a bit of sad shock

it rather took the edge off our lunchtime pleasure

D

I think its highly unlikely he is a real toff. More likely a wanabee toff or Faux Toff.
Even as a lifelong socialist who wishes to eradicate the species. I have to admit all the real ones I have ever met are met are very polite and have been quite friendly. I have never been asked to move on.
I stay of small islets when birds are nesting. or where seal pups are laying. Avoid being seen fishing within a mile of a river mouth. Walking through a planted field or a Garden.
I have been chased of the occasional loch or river when I was a lad. Which is fair enough. Its a bit impertinent to get caught.
I probably wouldn't anchor right in front of a house. If there was a spot just a bit further along. Unless it was known as an anchorage.
Just polite to leave others to their own privacy.

If someone yelled at me. Particularly with an Edinburgh accent. Even worse a Posh Edinburgh accent.
I might respond with my best Glaswegian accent. Possibly even row over to make sure he understood.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I think the long island, Eileen Righ, is up for sale for a few million and has a helicopter landing pad. It is one of these places that the right to roam applies but you just know that the owner takes the concept of his privacy seriously. Come the zombie apocalypse I am going to send a boat load of the reanimated over just to really piss him/her/it off. Until then, I think I too would just move on, life is too precious to stand about arguing with someone, especially when surrounded with lovely places to visit.

 

[awol]

It's possible he didn't approve of your type of anchor. What was it?

 

[dunedin]

I think the long island, Eileen Righ, is up for sale for a few million and has a helicopter landing pad. It is one of these places that the right to roam applies but you just know that the owner takes the concept of his privacy seriously. Come the zombie apocalypse I am going to send a boat load of the reanimated over just to really piss him/her/it off. Until then, I think I too would just move on, life is too precious to stand about arguing with someone, especially when surrounded with lovely places to visit.

Different island with, as far as I know, differnt owner and no reported issues with Eilean Righ in recent times - so let's not drag this island into it (particularly in case Dylan's "friend" turns out to be an Edinburgh lawyer, with a differnt view on things, eek!)

 

[jimi]

yeah he was probably incensed at the sight of Dylan's cheap chinese CQR and indicating that a big Bruce would be a better bet? Maybe Dylan needs to clean his lug holes rather than leap to the paranoid conclusion that the chap was being aggressively unhelpful. Perhaps the very opposite was the case, where his concern for Dylan's wellbeing overcame his natural reticence?

 

[Malo37]

It has just occurred to me that as presumably Dylan your boat is awash with cameras, you should have filmed him and posted on youtube.

 

[Warpdrive]

Was it a gesture like this?
I heard a well known TV personality was looking for a new location for a west coast golf course.
So prehaps you have done everyone a favor and saved us from this.

 

[RichardS]

It has just occurred to me that as presumably Dylan your boat is awash with cameras, you should have filmed him and posted on youtube.

Might well have been covered in post #16?

Richard

 

[wully1]

I noticed that his dinghy spends most of the time on the pontoon at Ardfern so I assume he just runs away there at weekends - this was a Sunday lunchtime and by Sunday night the dinghy was back in Ardfern so I assume he had scuttled back to Edinburgh

I heard he dislikes yotties as some Drascombe sailors anchored in there a good few years back and shat all over his property. I believe it was / is a recurring problem for him..

 

[chrishscorp]

we were heading up the little inlet to drop an anchor in the shallow water

so we were well tucked out of the wind and current

however, he appears to have decided that it is his inlet, for his boat, his ugly orange buoys, his outlook from his cottage on what he seemed to regard as his island.

He was making large gestures somewhat like this

only his arms were not out in greeting

in combination with the look on his face he had a sort of "what the **** are you thinking" look about it

he was a big man in a green teeshirt

I have never been keen on public shouting matches so we quietly moved away.

I was in the cockpit on the tiller with the engine running so I could not hear what he was saying -

Baz and Ian were dealing with the anchor on the foredeck so they could hear him

I could see his gestures though

D

Might one of the phrases he was shouting have been the Scottish for ' Mind the Seahorse Colony ' ?