Badly tied up tenders too

Robin

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In line with the post from StellaGirl about inconsiderate mooring of the parent boat, I would like to add there are some selfish so and sos out there parking tenders too. So:-

Please don't leave your tender tied fore/aft on the visitor pontoon
Please don't leave it on an ultra short line so it cannot be pushed aside so that others can still leave or arrive.
Please don't tie your painter (as in the other post from StellaGirl) over the top of others.
Please don't moor a 6m RIB with tenders, unless you own QM2 it is not a tender
If you are local, please don't use the visitor tender pontoon to leave yours, chained up and full of water.

I'm sure others can add to the list.



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And badly tied fenders ...

Six of my eight fenders were 'found'. I asked round my club about this - almost everyone admits to having found a fender or two of their present stock, but no-one to being a net loser.

Question: Where are all these fenders coming from?


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Re: And badly tied fenders ...

I think people are gettting more careful, time was when I picked up at least one a season. I actually had to buy a couple of fenders last year! Do you realise how much these things cost?

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I agree with Robin. Generally, when making the boat fast, or casting off, one has time to sort out the ropework of inconsiderate sods. Trying to get alongside with a tender is a different matter. Flubbers tied up with 2' of string, 6m ribs etc. tend to p**s me off too.

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For me it is when one approaches a pontoon to be faced with a 'solid' wall of rubber dinghys, all lashed firmly on short lines, so you have to climb across several to get ashore. Then you have to get back on board with shopping afterwards. Even worse.

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Funny thing is; why wouldn't they want to tie them off on a longish line? Means you can push it back out of everyone's way and not get it trampled on! Bowline up under all the others, everyone's happy and no danger of it being untied and left..

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That was what I meant really. Lymington Town Quay is a particularly good example of how not to do it IMO. Another tender 'hate' is on close fore/aft especially rafted up moorings like again Lymington buoys or Yarmouth when the boat in front leaves an outboard on the tender to play footsie with your gelcoat

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I keep a long painter on my inflatable dinghy, with our rise an fall of tide around the islands it makes life easy, untill i came back one time, to find someone had tied there tender with a short piece of string, TO MY DINGHY!!!! /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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I think it is self-perpetuating. Because the first ones are like that, latecomers having pushed and fought to the pontoon to disembasrk realise that if they then leave THEIRS on a long line they will never get it back alongside when they come back, so they tie it up short like the others!

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St Peter Port outside dinghy pontoons are a pain, it seems that the entire population of RIBs in the Islands park there when in town, usually tied fore/aft alongside and often even rafted up, the HM never seems to bother them either, despite a big notice that says 'for tenders only' or something like it.

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Complain to the assistant harbourmaster responsible for the yacht harbours. He's often in the office where you pay the mooring fees - mind you his staff are up against it with the behaviour of some yachtsmen

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