Boat off mooring - salvage claim... Again?! Arrr!

I have the answer to why the 22 ft sailboat came to be adrift!!
Take a look at the tread titled "What anchor will have the best chance of holding....."
Can't wait to see Fatbeard's pictures.
 
Fatbeard said:
Also, silly of me I know, but I can't help but feel that publishing photos may expose myself and all concerned to ridicule and abuse.
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More than you are getting at the moment...?

Have you read: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wreck-and-salvage-law

If your claim is the vessel was in distress and you boarded without permission of the master carries a £1000 fine. If you had his permission you'd have agreed salvage terms before you started.

Enlighten us... Would it be safer to go over to the casualty by tender?
 
ShinyShoe said:
More than you are getting at the moment...?

Have you read: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wreck-and-salvage-law

If your claim is the vessel was in distress and you boarded without permission of the master carries a £1000 fine. If you had his permission you'd have agreed salvage terms before you started.

Enlighten us... Would it be safer to go over to the casualty by tender?
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Don't forget removing the ships papers and charts without permission.
 
how do these laws apply to rivers/estuaries as compared to open water? As a past victim of amateur salvers (thieving scum) I tried to ascertain this to no satisfaction, but my keen interest on some unsavoury folk on our river come from that bitter experience. I do not think this potentially fantasy incident occurred here, as we have not heard of any missing yachts, but had it done so, you can trust that a fellow holding someone's boat ransom on a small river would result in a rapid need for that individual to seek new climes. Just not cricket. If you are on the Solent, go elsewhere.
 
ShinyShoe said:
More than you are getting at the moment...?

Have you read: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wreck-and-salvage-law

If your claim is the vessel was in distress and you boarded without permission of the master carries a £1000 fine. If you had his permission you'd have agreed salvage terms before you started.

Enlighten us... Would it be safer to go over to the casualty by tender?
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Not only that, but he/she has posted on here about breaking and entering. Even boasted about it to a Police Officer.:eek:
 
Fatbeard's mum must not let him have his laptop on after 7-00pm. bedtime, but he should be back again after he has his Frosties.
 
Nice.

I will reply to you all individually later today if I can. Sadly I am back off down to the dohnut factory now, after an unpleasant surprise, an uncomfortable night, a telling off from what passes as my legal advice and a row with the mrs where I used the words FU.

Spyro and others who are pointing me towards the Receiver of Wreck... stop it - it's a red herring.
Others will explain why, if not I'll be back when they release me.

xxx.
 
Fatbeard!

Thank you for stimulating the most interesting and enjoyable thread here for many a moon!

Though I have the feeling that reading and analysing the wide gamut of comments you have galvanised would be a sociologist's wet dream!
 
Fatbeard said:
Nice.

Spyro and others who are pointing me towards the Receiver of Wreck... stop it - it's a red herring.
Others will explain why, if not I'll be back when they release me.

xxx.
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If a boat comes off its moorings, it isn’t generally classified as a wreck for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, as it hasn’t been abandoned without hope of recovery.
 
ARrRRrrRrr! Back!
No I wasn't in the cells all this time! I will be busy the next hour or so answering some of your posts! It may be a while...
 
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