superheat6k
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Indeed - very well marked and quite large off Hill Head towards Lee On The Solent end, where the Swordfish pub used to be.
Am I being a kill Joy?
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KINGFISHER 9
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Doesn't matter if it's Priory Bay or the dark side of the moon ... if there are boats already anchored there then people with RIBs shouldn't start towing skiers around in between the anchored boats ... that's what the OP was talking about.
If anybody turns up and there are people already skiing then they'd be better off anchoring elsewhere!
If anybody turns up and there are people already skiing then they'd be better off anchoring elsewhere!
colingr
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Also in the bay east of Osbourne bay
TheOrs
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He doesn't actually make it clear whether the moored boats or the skiers were there first (although I suspect you are right).
On a bit of a side note, we were out in Jennycliff tonight for a family BBQ after work. There was a small race boat out in the Sound running practice circuits at high speed. Each time he went past we rocked a bit. He did about 15 circuits but it didn't really bother us because the wake was so small. Then a fortyish foot FairPrinSeeker went across the Sound on his way home. Relatively low speed, straight line from the Breakwater to Mountbatten; shook us all over the place! To my mind; if it's acceptable for a larger leisure boat to make that much wake just travelling around, then it's also fine for small sports-boats to go tearing around enjoying themselves.
gjgm
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But that IS the point..Priory Bay has such an enormous variation between high and low tide and who moored.skis.wakeboards where and when..then the tide goes in or out and everything changes. No one supports watersports close in between boats of course.. but in this location that varies by 750 metres and boats maybe 25 metres apart and boats 250 maybe apart..and that then also varies ans the tide changes....anyway..Like OP I have had my frustrations there..on a busy calm sunny summer weekend then things get a bit tougher.Go there in early May and you have the whole bay to yourself..for days!
chrishelen
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I run a comercial boat company. Rules of the road doesn't apply to these people, so why would a few anchored yachties worry them? Probably the same guys cutting you up on your way home on the motorway. But who is to say anchored boats have an absolute right to piece and quiet? When I was a yottie my piece was often disturbed by nearby boats running gennies late at night and early morning.
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Switch
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Last weekend (Sunday) I anchored in Alum bay - although it was busy with ribs tacking out day trippers to the needles they kept a fair distance away from anchored boats when passing which I thought was very conscientious and professional of the skippers. There were water skiers as well but they too seemed to be enjoying them selves with out careering through the anchored masses. Only the jet skiers seemed content to spoil the tranquillity but hey ho! what can you do?? My original post concerned Priory Bay where, due to it being very shallow, you generally need to anchor a fair way out especially at low tide so you'd be more likely to be in the path of water skiers and the like. Whilst anchored in Alum Bay, I was only 20 metres from the shore/cliff. So, the answer is choose an anchorage very close to shore where you're less likely to be in the firing line as it were.
Sandyman
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Catapult & a bag of marbles works well. Just go through the motions. They soon sod off.
(PS. This is not a threat to harm or injure anyone)
(PS. This is not a threat to harm or injure anyone)
Bigplumbs
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So if you advise violent behaviour and then say it is not a threat is that ok. I wonder why it is you think they should sod off and not you