Are you allowed to sleep in your boatyard?

[BarryH]

No probs sleeping in the yard. Don't know if its allowed or not. Theres more than one person that stays on their boats for a few weeks at a time.....
I suppose it depends on how much the management can be bothered to police it

 

[dylanwinter]

No probs sleeping in the yard. Don't know if its allowed or not. Theres more than one person that stays on their boats for a few weeks at a time.....
I suppose it depends on how much the management can be bothered to police it

Harbour authority yard - man...beard...uniform

D

 

[VicS]

In the same yard as BarryH but been there for many many many more years.

Never been any problem. Often stayed over one or two nights when fitting out

Always been one or live aboards in the pool, on the slipway, on the beach or even in the yard in wintertime.

Except for one case in exceptional circumstances living in caravans or motor caravans definitely not allowed....... (caravan site not far away for them)

 

[chinita]

Why did you not just say 'Listen, my man. Don't you know who I AM!!

 

[ganter]

Harbour authority yard - man...beard...uniform

D

Yep...high-vis, clipboard, lives with his mum, wanted to join the army but they wouldn't have him. Know the type. Our society seems to be increasingly policed by them.
Get the old boys on your side, they'll sort the office wallahs and they'll tell clipboard charlie to back off.

 

[prv]

it will be pretty horrible

but what is art without some suffering

I slept beside my old Uno on a number of occasions. I used to hang an Army poncho off the side, hooked onto the rear window washer, a scrap of coathanger over the door rim, and a string to the windscreen wiper. The other side would be pegged out to the ground with three tent pegs. Ideally, if the need was expected in advance, I'd bring my fairly substantial camp bed and that made for a perfectly comfortable night, much better than being inside a small car:

Not sure you'd want to do it in an urban car-park though!

Pete

 

[ganter]

I slept beside my old Uno on a number of occasions. I used to hang an Army poncho off the side, hooked onto the rear window washer, a scrap of coathanger over the door rim, and a string to the windscreen wiper. The other side would be pegged out to the ground with three tent pegs. Ideally, if the need was expected in advance, I'd bring my fairly substantial camp bed and that made for a perfectly comfortable night, much better than being inside a small car:

Not sure you'd want to do it in an urban car-park though!

Pete

Do you know, that actually looks rather cozy. I see shoes, a water bottle and what could be a kettle. Where's the camping gaz stove though?

 

[prv]

Do you know, that actually looks rather cozy. I see shoes, a water bottle and what could be a kettle. Where's the camping gaz stove though?

Shoes, yes, waterbottle, yes. What you're seeing as a kettle is actually the end of the bag for the camp bed. No need for a stove in the morning, this was a mate's 21st at his parents' farmhouse, and there were endless quantities of tea and bacon being dished up in the kitchen

Although in the picture it looks like I'm parked up alone, there was actually a row of cars with young men sleeping in them, just out of shot to either side. I was the only one with a roof and a camp-bed though

Pete

 

[ronmarson]

Work at night. Kip during the day'

This is the answer.

 

[chinita]

Shoes, yes, waterbottle, yes. What you're seeing as a kettle is actually the end of the bag for the camp bed. No need for a stove in the morning, this was a mate's 21st at his parents' farmhouse, and there were endless quantities of tea and bacon being dished up in the kitchen

Although in the picture it looks like I'm parked up alone, there was actually a row of cars with young men sleeping in them, just out of shot to either side. I was the only one with a roof and a camp-bed though


Pete

Nice US Army bed, army poncho, army water bottle, army sleeping bag........no wonder our lads in the 'Stan have got SFA kit!

 

[Seajet]

Dylan,

be careful where you park up for a kip; Littlehampton has a pretty bad reputation for violence & drugs.

If and when the gales subside, is there a camp site nearby which might take you in as a ' motorcaravan ', probably with a tent as well, seeing as they won't be making any money at this time of year ?

Otherwise a B&B or room at a pub every few days I suppose; also check - discreetly - there isn't a similar rule at Hayling Yacht Co, they're trying to go upmarket since I was there years ago.

In case of interest when you get round, my club - good facilities but no food except weekends - has a visitors' mooring in Chi Harbour, free for one night, half tide on soft mud a short distance from the slip.

 

[Seven Spades]

Just sneek abord and have an early night and keep the lights out so he won't know you are there.

 

[dylanwinter]

Dylan,

be careful where you park up for a kip; Littlehampton has a pretty bad reputation for violence & drugs.

If and when the gales subside, is there a camp site nearby which might take you in as a ' motorcaravan ', probably with a tent as well, seeing as they won't be making any money at this time of year ?

Otherwise a B&B or room at a pub every few days I suppose; also check - discreetly - there isn't a similar rule at Hayling Yacht Co, they're trying to go upmarket since I was there years ago.

In case of interest when you get round, my club - good facilities but no food except weekends - has a visitors' mooring in Chi Harbour, free for one night, half tide on soft mud a short distance from the slip.

I shall be on the pontoon at hayling

I assume they allow you to sleep on your own boat on a rented pontoon.

D

 

[dylanwinter]

Why did you not just say 'Listen, my man. Don't you know who I AM!!

Those with knowledge of KTL is incredibly bijou

you would be unamazed how seldom I am recognised

mind you... when I was in anstruther there was a big bloke shouting at me from the harbour wall

"I am jumble duck"

D

 

[prv]

Nice US Army bed, army poncho, army water bottle, army sleeping bag........no wonder our lads in the 'Stan have got SFA kit!

Heh. Bed is US Army design, but civvy copy sold by Makro. Bit flimsy compared to the real thing - now has one wooden leg where I collapsed on it a bit too heavily while pissed

Poncho and water bottle, guilty as charged, accumulated buckshee from years in the Cadets. The ear defenders I use in the workshop came the same way.

The sleeping bag is a Snugpak Softie, as privately purchased from the PRI shop by practically everybody during my brief stint in the Army, to avoid lugging the issue big green maggot around.

Pete

 

[Simondjuk]

the escort was great - when I was on the alde I would leave home at ten at night, drive to the yard, doss down in the car and then get up at first light and row out to the slug

saw some cracking sunrises

the annoying thing will be the knowledge that just a few yards away is a perfectly comfortable boat

D

Do all the smelly, painty, gluey, resiny work inside the boat now. It was doing such jobs, and the fumes not clearing by bedtime, which drove us into the boot berth on several occasions. If you feel you've inflicted sleeping in the car upon yourself, it may take the bitter taste away.

 

[dylanwinter]

Do all the smelly, painty, gluey, resiny work inside the boat now. It was doing such jobs, and the fumes not clearing by bedtime, which drove us into the boot berth on several occasions. If you feel you've inflicted sleeping in the car upon yourself, it may take the bitter taste away.

the cosmetic inside stuff is going to be done once she is afloat

got all the hull work to do first

up against it a bit

 

[Simondjuk]

I slept beside my old Uno on a number of occasions. I used to hang an Army poncho off the side, hooked onto the rear window washer, a scrap of coathanger over the door rim, and a string to the windscreen wiper. The other side would be pegged out to the ground with three tent pegs. Ideally, if the need was expected in advance, I'd bring my fairly substantial camp bed and that made for a perfectly comfortable night, much better than being inside a small car:

Not sure you'd want to do it in an urban car-park though!

Pete

C'mon now. That there Uno has a perfectly useable looking towbar. There's actually one of they whacking gert twin axle 40 foot caravans, as favoured by showmen, parked just out of shot, isn't there?

 

[Simondjuk]

the cosmetic inside stuff is going to be done once she is afloat

got all the hull work to do first

up against it a bit

Just leave a tin of paint open inside the boat then. Placebo effect, you know?

 

[wully1]

mind you... when I was in anstruther there was a big bloke shouting at me from the harbour wall

"I am jumble duck"

D

Scary.....