Are you allowed to sleep in your boatyard?

Why don't you treat yourself to staying at the Arun View? You will get a decent nights sleep, be warm, have access to showers and get a nice big brekky too. There is no limit on the hours you are allowed to work and you will get much more done after a warm and dry nights sleep. £25 per night for a few nights is not the end of the world and you can save it elsewhere. You have already saved the price of a tank of diesel - 10 gallons worth :)

I thought you were launching on Monday anyway!

Di
 
WestWittering said:
Why don't you treat yourself to staying at the Arun View? You will get a decent nights sleep, be warm, have access to showers and get a nice big brekky too. There is no limit on the hours you are allowed to work and you will get much more done after a warm and dry nights sleep. £25 per night for a few nights is not the end of the world and you can save it elsewhere. You have already saved the price of a tank of diesel - 10 gallons worth :)

I thought you were launching on Monday anyway!

Di
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17th March Launch

I have spent four nights on the boat

that would have been £100

I reckon I have another ten days work to do to get ready for launch

I wish I had tried harder at the career thing so that £25 a night meant very little to me

D
 
WestWittering said:
Why don't you treat yourself to staying at the Arun View? You will get a decent nights sleep, be warm, have access to showers and get a nice big brekky too. There is no limit on the hours you are allowed to work and you will get much more done after a warm and dry nights sleep. £25 per night for a few nights is not the end of the world and you can save it elsewhere. You have already saved the price of a tank of diesel - 10 gallons worth :)

I thought you were launching on Monday anyway!

Di
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When you have a new boat and then sleep ashore it's like having a new girlfriend but going back to sleep with your Ex........it's just wrong !
 
What a disgrace. I'd never use that yard again. What a load of miserable b'stids they are down there.

You have been offered some interesting ideas, but how will they know you are on board if you move the car to the hotel (or just out of sight) & sneak back aboard? DO NOT respond to any knocks on the hull & they won't know you are there.

If they spot you in the morning, tell 'em you've just nipped back from the Hotel because you forgot your glasses/ flask or whatever, then walk off with said item & return with car a little later for the day's work.

You are in the medjya, a good story is your very lifeblood, most don't care if it is true or not as long as it entertains. FFS Dylan you will have to Man up to go round the N of Alba.
 
prv said:
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:

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

Pete
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Not sure Dylan would fancy doing it anywhere in the U.K. this week either. :)

S.
 
dylanwinter said:
17th March Launch

I have spent four nights on the boat

that would have been £100

I reckon I have another ten days work to do to get ready for launch

I wish I had tried harder at the career thing so that £25 a night meant very little to me

D
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Ah, I thought you were going in on Monday :(

£25 a night for a month would certainly add up!

Is it worth asking the yard for a copy of their t&c's? There may be nothing at all in them that says you can't sleep on the boat & the jobs worth is just making noise.......

Di
 
WestWittering said:
Ah, I thought you were going in on Monday :(

£25 a night for a month would certainly add up!

Is it worth asking the yard for a copy of their t&c's? There may be nothing at all in them that says you can't sleep on the boat & the jobs worth is just making noise.......

Di
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I reckon eight nights spread across three visits should pretty much do it

dunno how to deal with it

no mention on the form I signed about not overnighting

I will be working on the boat next week

Micra hotel....here I come

all part of the adventure

make a good blog or two

D
 
Searush said:
What a disgrace. I'd never use that yard again. What a load of miserable b'stids they are down there.

You have been offered some interesting ideas, but how will they know you are on board if you move the car to the hotel (or just out of sight) & sneak back aboard? DO NOT respond to any knocks on the hull & they won't know you are there.

If they spot you in the morning, tell 'em you've just nipped back from the Hotel because you forgot your glasses/ flask or whatever, then walk off with said item & return with car a little later for the day's work.

You are in the medjya, a good story is your very lifeblood, most don't care if it is true or not as long as it entertains. FFS Dylan you will have to Man up to go round the N of Alba.
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+1

I also don't understand how people in motor homes can get caught for drunk in charge etc. Don't open ****** the door.......
 
wully1 said:
Have you checked with the yard office and not just taken Mr Clipboard- beard ?
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I emailed the Harbour Master this afternoon and apologised for not understanding the rules

It is possible that they might come back to

but as a boss he should back his staff up

rules is rules

I do not even know if my night visitor is the Harbour Master or one of his deputies

the harbour staff at Wells Next the Sea were relentlessly helpful - nothing was too much trouble for them

D
 
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Well I can recall a certain boat which has a record breaking thread on here which as I recalled was lived on ashore since the early 1990s!
 
I had no idea you were in Littlehampton. I came and parked up near the cafe on Thursday morning, I was waiting for the print finishing company to die cut a job for me.
 
great offer

colhel said:
Dylan, we have a caravan sat around doing nothing and quick google showed a few local campsites. You're more than welcome to borrow it. It would actually be nice if it got some use.
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that is a lovely offer

I do not have a tow bar anymore

I think I will try a night in the car and see how I get on

I could take one of the berth cushions out to the car

of course the Harbour Master might email me and tell me to carry on

D
 
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