Boat yard rules?

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Tinkerbell is currently ashore at Gouvia whilst we do various jobs, including washing down the hull and slapping on some new anti foul.

On Saturday, the first dry day in a while, we popped along to the marina with pressure washer in hand to try and get the hull washed down as best as possible. We were setting up the pressure washer when the chap from the neighbouring boat turned up and said we "couldn't" pressure wash the hull as the rules said you can't do that on weekends. Weekends are for painting. When we queried where this rule came from, he said he was going to prime his hull and it was the first dry day in a while.

Now, we didn't mind putting off our pressure washing. Had he just asked us to hold off so he could prime his hull, we would've said "no problem". Which we did, anyway.

My query is this: Is there some written (or unwritten) rule that says you can't pressure wash on a weekend? Is there a rule that says "clean jobs only at weekends"? I don't recall seeing anything like that in our contract, but was wondering if there is some gentleman's agreement that we're unaware of?
 
Probably no actual rule, but on "the first dry day in a while" he maybe thought he could get a bit of painting done. Pressure washing can be done on wet days, painting can't.

If there is a rule I think it goes along the lines of "When the weather turns dry in March and everyone in the yard is painting decks, varnishing brightwork or antifouling, at leats three people who have not been near their boats since hey were hauled out will turn up and start pressure-washing their hulls, topsides and decks, filling the air with a driving mist of water droplets liberally mixed with dirt and old antifouling."
 
No rule against it but I do get a little "tense" when after spending a day preping and varnishing a mono comes I to the next berth and decides to hose off.

I'm always polite. Promise.

But it takes the biscuit when your told you the only bloke on the marina with a boat that cannot get wet.

Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest.
 
PhillM said:
No rule against it but I do get a little "tense" when after spending a day preping and varnishing a mono comes I to the next berth and decides to hose off.

I'm always polite. Promise.

But it takes the biscuit when your told you the only bloke on the marina with a boat that cannot get wet.

Sorry, just wanted to get that off my chest.
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Fine, but can you supply a translation from iPadese?
 
Gouvia has a rule that the only pressure washers to be used ashore are theirs. They maintain that this is because that the drainage has to go into a traps before discharge into the sea to remove particles of antifoul..... No rule that we encountered other than this one, so your Dutchman may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick.
 
searush, sorry.

Pete, correct.

On iPhone because bt broadband down again. 6th time in 10 days. We run a software business and do everything online. Don't get me started. Again, sorry.
 
duncan99210 said:
Gouvia has a rule that the only pressure washers to be used ashore are theirs. They maintain that this is because that the drainage has to go into a traps before discharge into the sea to remove particles of antifoul..... No rule that we encountered other than this one, so your Dutchman may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick.
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Interesting rule. Seeing as they pressure washed our neighbour after chocking him off, I'll assume we're also ok. :rolleyes:
 
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Wight Dawn said:
Probably no actual rule, but on "the first dry day in a while" he maybe thought he could get a bit of painting done. Pressure washing can be done on wet days, painting can't.

If there is a rule I think it goes along the lines of "When the weather turns dry in March and everyone in the yard is painting decks, varnishing brightwork or antifouling, at leats three people who have not been near their boats since hey were hauled out will turn up and start pressure-washing their hulls, topsides and decks, filling the air with a driving mist of water droplets liberally mixed with dirt and old antifouling."
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They will be joined by someone taking an angle grinder to some rusty steel, to add a nice rusty fleck effect to your new paint....
 
jwilson said:
They will be joined by someone taking an angle grinder to some rusty steel, to add a nice rusty fleck effect to your new paint....
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Yup, I've had that as well! It did take me a while to realise where the rust marks in my deck paint had come from. However we also have to put up with coal being unloaded from bulk carriers at a jetty about a mile to the SSW!

Largs marina has a rule that water from the hoses is for filling tanks, not washing down boats. Not that I have seen any of the marina staff bothering when someone is hosing down their boat. Frequently you see hoses left draped over decks' still running, with the end in the (salt) water while the offender is polishing a bit, or even away for a coffee break.
 
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Boat yard rules are there to be broken.
The guys in charge have seen everything...and I mean everything.

Just because a couple of London types have complained about iron fillings landing on their davits, I really wouldn't worry about it.

It's your boat...you're ashore.. it's your time to do those jobs that need doing. If you're to have a good season.

Now get on with it.

(Anyone near by complaining about rusty grinder spray - is no sailor - so can be safely disregarded)
 
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