Blooming raggie took out Bramblemet!!

Firefly625 said:
...and the day before Round the Island Race....what a twonk


Oh, and its not just me blaming a raggie, something tells me there was evidence!!

http://www.bramblemet.co.uk/%28S%28p12erwvy1yctxmjdsqcnhq55%29%29/default.aspx

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* loody raggies :mad:

Creeping into marinas late at night, steeling water and electricity before leaving early hours in order to avoid harbour masters and now this.

They are no better than joy riders with their morals.
I am aware there are a few decent raggies out there before anyone accuses me of racism ;)
Ian Grant for one, real nice guy :cool:
 
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DAKA said:
* loody raggies :mad:

Creeping into marinas late at night, steeling water and electricity before leaving early hours in order to avoid harbour masters and now this.

They are no better than joy riders with their morals.
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It was you wasn't it ... you went along side, got your boathook out and did the deed - knowing full well that they'd blame the raggies ...

But why did you need to take the solar panels - had the raggies nicked all the shorepower connections and your generator is on the blink?! ;)
 
fireball said:
It was you wasn't it ... you went along side, got your boathook out and did the deed - knowing full well that they'd blame the raggies ...

But why did you need to take the solar panels - had the raggies nicked all the shorepower connections and your generator is on the blink?! ;)
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I am a mobo owner, (flybridge at that), we are the gentlemen on the waters :)
Its no good trying to turn this into some sort of raggie stinker thread, this time everyone knows its a raggie to blame, obvious, any mobo owner would have owned up to it and given their Insurance details .
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DAKA said:
I am a mobo owner, (flybridge at that), we are the gentlemen on the waters :)
Its no good trying to turn this into some sort of raggie stinker thread, this time everyone knows its a raggie to blame, obvious, any mobo owner would have owned up to it and given their Insurance details . <smiley face with halo above>
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But then you have shown before that your favourite place to be in any kind of restricted water is next to the nearest possible obstruction ;) Did you have to disassemble the weather station when you were untangling from it? I hope you gave them the parts back this time as well :p
 
Flying Penguin said:
But then you have shown before that your favourite place to be in any kind of restricted water is next to the nearest possible obstruction ;) Did you have to disassemble the weather station when you were untangling from it? I hope you gave them the parts back this time as well :p
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Obviously it was Bramblemets fault - it wasn't showing the correct dayshapes and was in a narrow channel at the time.
Also - the log was showing that it was far in excess of the speed limit - but because that was wind driven is supposedly ok - but not for a moboer ...

That's probably why Daka chose to slow it down somewhat! Mobo jealousy of the lack of speed restriction to anything that isn't a mobo!
 
fireball said:
Obviously it was Bramblemets fault - it wasn't showing the correct dayshapes and was in a narrow channel at the time.
Also - the log was showing that it was far in excess of the speed limit - but because that was wind driven is supposedly ok - but not for a moboer ...

That's probably why Daka chose to slow it down somewhat! Mobo jealousy of the lack of speed restriction to anything that isn't a mobo!
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No, DAKA thought it was a raggie and would tack out of his way just before he hit it.
 
l'escargot said:
No, DAKA thought it was a raggie and would tack out of his way just before he hit it.
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:D

As humorous as this is will you please stop trying to divert attention away from the facts.............

Raggies are cheapscapes , opting to act immorally in keeping quiet rather than giving out their Insurance details which might increase next years premium by a whole tenner .
 
DAKA said:
:D

As humorous as this is will you please stop trying to divert attention away from the facts.............
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So we can that as an admission then? ;)

DAKA said:
Raggies are cheapscapes , opting to act immorally in keeping quiet rather than giving out their Insurance details which might increase next years premium by a whole tenner .
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That "raggie" (if it was a raggie) is a cheapskate. You do seem to attract trouble, perhaps this is clouding your judgement of others? ;)
 
It has to be a stick and cloth job for sure, I watch them crash in and out of locks all the time. They also think other people's boats are fenders for their boat in high wind!
 
OK, OK... great to light a fuse and all that.... but just for a minute come on and just consider what someone has done, wipped out a reallly great piece of real time weather equipment used by thousands... so somewhere there is a yacht with some damage... keep your eyes out folks, most know that I indeed have sailed all my life so its not about mobo's against raggies... no really it isn't ( I just don't get that at all..)!!

But to destroy an expensive bit of kit and run...... just like those who smack into your car in Waitrose and drive off... you know they could afford to leave their insurance details...otherwise they would shop in Asda!, but they decide in that split second to join the scummy lowlife society....

....so it would be just a point of interest to see if anyone can spot someone who might just have caused damge to this.....no boat names, but a photo would be of interest (got to have a solar panel hanging from the rigging mind... not just a bent crosstree!);

Here's what they hit!

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Firefly625 said:
OK, OK... great to light a fuse and all that.... but just for a minute come on and just consider what someone has done, wipped out a reallly great piece of real time weather equipment used by thousands... so somewhere there is a yacht with some damage... keep your eyes out folks, most know that I indeed have sailed all my life so its not about mobo's against raggies... no really it isn't ( I just don't get that at all..)!!

But to destroy an expensive bit of kit and run...... just like those who smack into your car in Waitrose and drive off... you know they could afford to leave their insurance details...otherwise they would shop in Asda!, but they decide in that split second to join the scummy lowlife society....

....so it would be just a point of interest to see if anyone can spot someone who might just have caused damge to this.....no boat names, but a photo would be of interest (got to have a solar panel hanging from the rigging mind... not just a bent crosstree!);

Here's what they hit!

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Blimey, how couldn't anyone not see THAT! I saw the thread and assumed it was a buoy with a few toys attached not something that big and obvious... It looks pretty solid too, so would expect some significant damage. Whoever they are, should have gone to Specsavers! :eek:

Out of interest, how high is the platform?
 
rbcoomer said:
Blimey, how couldn't anyone not see THAT! I saw the thread and assumed it was a buoy with a few toys attached not something that big and obvious... It looks pretty solid too, so would expect some significant damage. Whoever they are, should have gone to Specsavers! :eek:
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it easily done when sailing in a river, its so easy to get carried away and think you are in open waters ,just need to read scuttleburks and most on there think the river solent is open waters :rolleyes:.

even in good visibility 1/2 a mile away it could be 40 degrees off the bow but due to the slow headway say 1.5 knots the tide can soon have you on collision course with a target hidden by the sails and crunch.

No excuse for not reporting and handing over to insurers.
 
DAKA said:
it easily done when sailing in a river, its so easy to get carried away and think you are in open waters ,just need to read scuttleburks and most on there think the river solent is open waters :rolleyes:.

even in good visibility 1/2 a mile away it could be 40 degrees off the bow but due to the slow headway say 1.5 knots the tide can soon have you on collision course with a target hidden by the sails and crunch.

No excuse for not reporting and handing over to insurers.
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Fair point about visibility looking through sails etc, but shouldn't they know roughly where they are and thus be aware of such navigational hazards? I appreciate I'm only a novice at this, but even I look at where I'm planning on going before setting out and then still have a hawk-eye tendency looking for submerged objects and pots/floating stuff. If I deviated from planned route, even more so! Hard to tell without a reference, but that looks 3M+ to me and I'd expect to sink if I hit it! :(
 
If they think it's a raggie then perhaps the damage is such that it is likely to have been done by a mast at an angle ie heeling over.
It is quite easy to forget that the mast is over hanging the side. Get the rig wire caught behind a panel and rip it off. No visible damage to the yacht but one bramblemet down.
 
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