Boatyard unhelpful parking

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This has almost happened a couple of times now - go down to the boat with the aim of doing a potentially messy job such as scrubbing off last season's antifoul or putting the new stuff on only to find a car parked right next to the boat.

Asking nearby boats and the marina office yield nothing - presumably one should wait until the owner does eventually show up rather than decide that they did indeed intend to ensure that no fouling would grow on thier paintwork :D
 
syc1 said:
Why?
Splash it all over!
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Bit unfair if they parked earlier when nothing was being done. I did have a case of a car that parked whilst I was actively working on the boat. I kept going on the basis they'd accepted the risk. I didn't notice any splashes but I didn't inspect for them either.
 
Anyone who parks near a boat and then clears off is a bloody fool, and although I would never condone deliberately damaging someone's car they can hardly complain if it is accidently damaged by someone working on his boat.
 
I have no patience with inconsiderate oafs who park obstructing my boat. On one occasion, some prat had moved my ladder to park and I could not get aboard. When I found him and asked him to move his car his response was "I'm in the middle of a job just now but I should be finished in about an hour." My reply was that I wanted aboard to get a tarpaulin to put over his car while I applied the antifouling, but I would just need to go ahead without one. The car was moved about 30 seconds later.

Largs marina now lay up boats on the new car park, which is closed for the winter. Oh no it's not! I was laid up there last year and eventually realised that I had to put trestles and tape round the boat with notices saying "keep clear, painter is more enthusiastic than skilful" for a few days before I planned any work as again cars were parked up to and under the boat.
 
so glad we have a separate car park at our little marina, that situation sounds like a breeding ground for resentment. Here people only fight about electric cables, trolleys, hopepipes, the price of fish, brexit, and everything else. ;)
 
Really, it's all part of the deal with the yard.
They could section off a big area for car parking, but less boats laid up = less income = higher prices.
I assume none of you ever park close to your boat to avoid carrying your tools half a mile?

Arm yourself with dustsheets, polythene or those cheap tarps. If it's not a car parked there, it'll be somebody else's boat.
 
Shepherds wharf don't allow cars into the boatyard. Bloody nuisance having to carry everything as the trolleys are not that plentiful either and honestly, I feel bad getting paint on them as they are used to carry peoples food and clothes.
 
When I was in Deacons for the summer a few years ago cars would eschew the actual car park to park directly underneath my boat, presumably for shade. Initially I delayed doing work which might affect a car underneath the bows. Then I became rather blasé about work which might produce cleanable debris. With repeat offenders who ignored my "please do not park here because I am working on this boat" notes I was sorely tempted to just go ahead and antifoul / angle grind but chickened out and eventually resorted to finding heavy unused bits of yard equipment which would be too heavy for the average old codger (for it was they who were invariably the offenders) to lift and leaving it underneath the bows to block access.
 
We can't bring cars into the yard during the week, in order for the yard work not to be obstructed, but if asked they will let you in if you have a good reason, as when I drop my ladders. At the weekend cars can come in. Moral; do your fitting-out during the week. Too bad if you're not retired.
 
Boatyards here measure your boat as a shoebox and calculate your storage fee accordingly.* You can put anything you want in that shoebox so if someone else places something in your shoebox just carry on regardless and when you have finished covering their possesions with paint splashes you charge them rent for depriving you of space that you have paid for!

*At least that's what they tell us but to pack 'em in tighter they put them bows to and overlapping! More coffin than shoebox!
 
solent clown said:
so glad we have a separate car park at our little marina, that situation sounds like a breeding ground for resentment. Here people only fight about electric cables, trolleys, hopepipes, the price of fish, brexit, and everything else. ;)
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Last winter the Fire Service checked the yard, too many electric plugs sharing sockets (they did not test the load). We all had an e-mail telling is off for being naught people. I politely replied saying that clearly the owners need to provide more sockets to satisfy the demand and the Health and Safety implications. To date there are no additional power points.
 
I have equipment that I need to run from the car's electrical supply - I have no means of charging batteries when ashore, so even 12v stuff has to be powered from the car - ideally with the engine running. So I need to be able to park as close as possible when (for example) polishing the hull. Moot at present, as I have paid for professional cleaning this time!
 
AntarcticPilot said:
I have equipment that I need to run from the car's electrical supply - I have no means of charging batteries when ashore, so even 12v stuff has to be powered from the car - ideally with the engine running. So I need to be able to park as close as possible when (for example) polishing the hull. Moot at present, as I have paid for professional cleaning this time!
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At least if you park under someone else's boat they can follow the jump leads across the yard to let you know they're going to be working on the hull of their boat.
 
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