Blooming raggie took out Bramblemet!!

Flippin raggie probably stood on to it, on the basis that the solar panels generating a few watts made it "under power", and hence the give way vessel.
 
fireball said:
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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I think you are right. Picture of damage here http://www.bramblemet.co.uk/damage.html

So high up its unlikely to be anything but a raggie
 
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.
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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You are wrong.
Every time I have seen a vessel creep in at night to steal water and electricity it has been a mobo stinkpot and not a raggie angelic.

They creep in, pottle pottle pottle do the dastardly thing and then pottle pottle out, unnoticed, because the arrivals and departures of mobo stinkpots are not interesting events.

The arrival and departure of a raggie angelic under full sail is a sight everybody cranes their necks round to look at.

Stinkpots are ugly and naff. Raggies are beautiful, elegant, like swans.:p
 
Anything made of plastic or wood hitting that hard is likely to be underwater nearby. Has anyone looked? If it was hit a glancing blow I doubt it would have caused much damage to it. Rigging caught on it would probaly have brought the rig down. TBH, I'd suspect a big steel ship, possibly a fishing boat (it would have to be a foreign one, there aren't any Brit ones left) with loads of heavy gear, steel hawsers & stuff draped over the side.
 
Searush said:
Anything made of plastic or wood hitting that hard is likely to be underwater nearby. Has anyone looked? If it was hit a glancing blow I doubt it would have caused much damage to it. Rigging caught on it would probaly have brought the rig down. TBH, I'd suspect a big steel ship, possibly a fishing boat (it would have to be a foreign one, there aren't any Brit ones left) with loads of heavy gear, steel hawsers & stuff draped over the side.
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Nah - A steel ship or boat would have bent the pile. Lets stick with the Raggie explanation. It was probably motoring without a cone anyway. Seems to be the norm in the Solent.
 
If you look at the tides times at the time of the incident, it cant have been a raggie because there was not enough water. Raggies have things called keels, and if their boat goes aground, it tends to fall over, which does them a power of no good. It is called Bramblemet because it is on the Brambles bank, which is used by Mobos as a parking space, I seem to remember the MV QE2 parked there fairly recently.
I suspect that my Brother in Law is responsible as he has a new set of solar panels, and he has got a rib, so presumably he is a ribbie
 
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