Chi Man
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should have tried the soprano approach...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd6Zg3UYHg0
A small Scottish incident with an anchor - what would you have done?
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pmagowan
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This is why I think you should always carry a cannon!
JumbleDuck
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Oddly. Although I still own some land in Scotland, its a complicated and I'm not sure I fully understand all the ins and outs. I don't own the land I own the Fue. I even have a Feudal Superior. Who apparently has the right to insist I fence it and has a say in hanging ma laundry oot.
Might have changed I haven't checked for a while.
The Feudal bugger on Aran object to signs for some reason and has the right to as the Feudal Lord.
All feudal rights and duties ended with the Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act 2000.
Daydream believer
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Brilliant. We let them have another referendum to shut up the nationalists & if they get the vote they want we just buy it back for a couple of £billion & stuff them
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There is more than a passing possibility of a land tax being introduced. One of the big assets Scotland has, is land and the amount of tax taken from it is very low relative to its area; keeps raising its head when tax reform is discussed. You may find that not only does owning the land not prevent the masses from shitting all over it, but you will be taxed for the pleasure of owning it. Foreign ownership of Scottish land is not that uncommon.
Dockhead
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Dylan, I would have pulled up the anchor just like you did. The reason is -- when I'm on the boat, the purpose is to have fun, not to educate stupid people or defend the world's anchoring rights. You can't have fun under the angry gaze of someone like that.
When you can't just pull the anchor up, you have to get creative. Here's something similar which happened to me a few years ago:
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f108/overboard-again-86277.html
That being said --
This kind of thing is a more common problem than you might expect. In Florida, the conflict between sailors and waterfront property owners has become a real war, with different legislative initiatives every year and all kinds of conflict.
I think if we want to avoid something similar happening here, there needs to be some kind of social contract, with respect for our (undoubtedly legal) right to anchor almost anywhere we like, but with our being sensitive to the intrusion of privacy and obstruction of views which can occur if we anchor very close to someone's house.
I try to avoid it. I've been sailing in the Swedish and Finnish archipelagos these last weeks, and here all the best anchorages are right in front of someone's island house. Here there is a definite custom against intruding on someone's privacy by anchoring too close to a house, and I work hard to stay out of people's water views. So far in three years of cruising this area, I've not encountered anything but friendly waves, and sometimes even invitations, and I hope to keep it that way.
When you can't just pull the anchor up, you have to get creative. Here's something similar which happened to me a few years ago:
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f108/overboard-again-86277.html
That being said --
This kind of thing is a more common problem than you might expect. In Florida, the conflict between sailors and waterfront property owners has become a real war, with different legislative initiatives every year and all kinds of conflict.
I think if we want to avoid something similar happening here, there needs to be some kind of social contract, with respect for our (undoubtedly legal) right to anchor almost anywhere we like, but with our being sensitive to the intrusion of privacy and obstruction of views which can occur if we anchor very close to someone's house.
I try to avoid it. I've been sailing in the Swedish and Finnish archipelagos these last weeks, and here all the best anchorages are right in front of someone's island house. Here there is a definite custom against intruding on someone's privacy by anchoring too close to a house, and I work hard to stay out of people's water views. So far in three years of cruising this area, I've not encountered anything but friendly waves, and sometimes even invitations, and I hope to keep it that way.
JumbleDuck
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The finale sounds worrying, but the bit before that - Phase 2 of your encounter - is a delightful story which I regret to say was quite unexpected. I really must try to be less cynical.
NealB
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claymore
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He tried his King Twat routine with me once - I'll have another word with him......
Poignard
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Q. "do you really have to anchor there?"
A. "No, I don't have to but I intend to. Unless of course, you can come up with some convincing reason why I shouldn't."
A. "No, I don't have to but I intend to. Unless of course, you can come up with some convincing reason why I shouldn't."
Daydream believer
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No problem just put the tenants rent up. Hang a couple of defaulters was the usual system if they did not pay seemed to get results. i think that was how we got the place originally was it not?
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Orion Jim
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In most U.S. states the law only gives the landowner exclusive rights to the high tide mark. Thus one could walk along any beach as long as your feet are wet. Exclusive water rights are exceedingly rare. You may anchor any place you desire. Permanent moorings are closely regulated in densely populated areas, not so in lightly populated coastal regions such as in the state of Maine.
