Acceptable Noise?

[sleepless]

After a long crossing you arrive with a tired crew in a marina, avoiding the choppy anchorage because of the deep low tracking to the north, only to find a beer festival at the onsite pub with live music till 1am.

Is this really acceptable for a marina, outside race week, charging visitors ?

You then ask the night staff if they can do anything about it, and find that the pub, part of the marina, is a separate division and they cant do anything.

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Be warned, Shotley Marina on the east coast has had a great beer festival over the past 2 weeks, and will continue with live music all weekend..... if you want to bop till you drop its the place to be... if you want any sleep, steer well clear.

 

[yelbis]

Got woken last night by revellers returning to thier boat at 3.30 am. Talked and laughed under the canopy without a care til 6am, then started the engines on the mobo, some 30 year old thing. Rumbling away and spilling smoke. Then turned it off and went to sleep. Absolute pr@ts, thing is if you say anything, apart from the foff remarks they comment that arrival back at all hours a.m. by you yachties is not exactly quiet, nor are the racing crews that turn up early and exited at weekends.

Happy boating!!

 

[Lakesailor]

........and forumites used to think we were spoilsports when we locked the doors at midnight in our B&B.

I hate inconsiderate twats (unless it's me using an angle grinder of course)

 

[snowleopard]

Try the Caribbean. Loud reggae from the bar till 6am.

 

[TQA]

Or rafted up almost anywhere when the revellers return home and stumble through your cockpit.

 

[BrendanS]

Even in places like the bag in Salcombe, you will get loud noises early in the morning, such as skippers yelling at their crew, while they motor round and round trying to find a suitable place, then whole hordes of boats start yelling at the 'intruder' to shut up. More annoying than a constant disco noise to be honest, as blissfully quiet the rest of the time.

 

[bilbobaggins]

Perhaps better to do a night passage, make landfall at dawn, and sleep till past noon.....

Trubl is, all the chocy croissants are gone by then, and there's no fresh bread left.

 

[nimbusgb]

New nightclub in Preveza managed to keep the noise up until 7:30 am 3 nights in a row. A kilometre away over the water it was still loud enough to be annoying.

 

[Dyflin]

You call that noise...??? Try sleeping above two bow thrusters working at full capacity to keep a supply ship alongside a rig in a gale in the north sea. If you're really tired, you'll sleep through anything.

Beer festival, pff.

 

[puddock]

You call that noise...??? Try sleeping above two bow thrusters working at full capacity to keep a supply ship alongside a rig in a gale in the north sea. If you're really tired, you'll sleep through anything.

Beer festival, pff.

Try being onboard the Rig, in a cabin next to the Anchor Winch when the're running anchors !!!
Bow thrusters??? pff.

 

[gordmac]

Can't imagine being too tired for a beer festival!

 

[shmoo]

Perhaps better to do a night passage, make landfall at dawn, and sleep till past noon.....

Anchor for breakfast and dink in for fresh bread. Arrive at the marina about 10am, dodge all the leavers on their way out, and get a berth even in the school holidays. Just don't tell everyone.

 

[curve]

Or why not just say sod it and go and join in with the party.

 

[DownWest]

Or try sleeping when a bunch of Sunsail Flotilla types think that the party never stops...
on the last night at the base near Volos. We had an idylick(sp) week, only to have them ruin the last night with objectional behaviour all night. Found out the next day that half the flotilla refused to sail with them after the first day/night. Still, we had most of the week on our own.
A

 

[Spyro]

Beer festival and live music untill 1am I'd call that perfect timing.
If they were that tired they would have slept through it.
Live when your alive sleep when your dead.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

I know someone who not only fell asleep under a Tornado in full NBC kit including gas mask but actually stayed like that throughout engine start, although some would say he was more comatose than asleep. It was the jet blast and the slide across the pan on to the grass after that woke me.

Now I need sleeping tablets to sleep unless I'm on a boat. It's a funny old world...

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Try being onboard the Rig, in a cabin next to the Anchor Winch when the're running anchors !!!
Bow thrusters??? pff.

When I were a lad, we'd have paid for Anchor winches! We had t' air-guns going off every minute. Makes the whole ship jump up about 6 inches!

 

[PeterGibbs]

After a long crossing you arrive with a tired crew in a marina, avoiding the choppy anchorage because of the deep low tracking to the north, only to find a beer festival at the onsite pub with live music till 1am.

Is this really acceptable for a marina, outside race week, charging visitors ?

You then ask the night staff if they can do anything about it, and find that the pub, part of the marina, is a separate division and they cant do anything.

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Be warned, Shotley Marina on the east coast has had a great beer festival over the past 2 weeks, and will continue with live music all weekend..... if you want to bop till you drop its the place to be... if you want any sleep, steer well clear.

Not to worry. At Shotley you always have the melodious clank of containers wafting across the river to you, and the thrump of their big diesels left running all night - a little nacht musik from the pub is not such a boring thing after all.

PWG