Both on port going to windward

H

Heckler

Well-Known Member
Joined
24 Feb 2003
Messages
15,817
Visit site
Abersoch, this weekend, both on port tack, I was the windward boat, him slightly in front of me passing across my bow from stbd to port, I tried to make eye contact with the helm, he hunched his shoulders and pretended not to see me, his partner busied himself looking away from me, i turned to stbd to go behind him, not a flicker from him, passed astern, straightened up and followed him, still not a flicker, no nod, no thank you, just a stiffening of the hunched shoulders, reminded me of Cherie Blair in the presence of the Queen!!
Am I being too sensitive?
Stu
 
Yep you prolly are being sensitive, just take the moral high ground and remember not everyone was brought up being taught basic manners. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

If someone "gives way" to me I'll give a wave and say thanks, likewise when someone else was stand on vessel I made it obvious that I was changing course, and they thanked me. What comes around goes around /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

But just cos I'm playing by the rules it doesn't mean I expect a thanks, after all I don't expect drivers to thank me for stopping and a junction. but it's nice when it happens
 
Ta for re assurance, a polite nod was all I expected, plus of course he was putting a lot of trust in me knowing the colregs! If I hadnt turned to stbd we would have collided!
Stu
 
I wouldn't let it get to you. Snook's analogy with car drivers is about right. Its not like you know these people and they deliberately snubbed you. In fact you don't know anything about them, their personalities or mood or any particular circumstances (anything could have just taken place on board their vessel or on their passage which effected them) - or maybe they're just snooty by nature, which is their loss not yours. The key thing is that you both observed the ColRegs. But - the exception that proves the rule - it makes it more delightful still when the other 95% of sailors acknowledge your observance with a thank-you!
 
[ QUOTE ]
I bet they were wearing a blue ensign

[/ QUOTE ]

The sort of remark you might expect from an immature student rather than a [ QUOTE ]
"university lecturer"

[/ QUOTE ]
 
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
"university lecturer"

[/ QUOTE ]

[/ QUOTE ]

aye, but frae edinburgh, ye ken /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
If you were the windward boat didn't you have to give way. You could take it as a complement that he judged that you would know the rules. I once had a leeward boat slam tack on me without calling for room (neither of us was racing). That I complained about - to no avail.
 
[ QUOTE ]
Don't come down to the Solent then - you'll be traumatised!

[/ QUOTE ]

More stereotyping.

I am based in the Solent but if you give way to me [or I should say: allow me to maintain my course as the stand-on vessel] I will man-the-yards, give you 3 cheers, fire a salute, and maybe even dip my blue ensign.

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
He's probably thinking 'why did that yacht get close enough to make eye contact before altering course? A small alteration earlier would have been much easier....Didn't he see me till the last moment? Was he playing chicken?'

To expect thanks for doing what is expected seems like bad manners itself.
 
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
"university lecturer"

[/ QUOTE ]

[/ QUOTE ]

aye, but frae edinburgh, ye ken /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[/ QUOTE ]
- and writing not professionally but in my capacity as what Rabelais called 'extractor of the quintessence'. I am delighted that someone was willing to rise to the bait.
 
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I bet they were wearing a blue ensign

[/ QUOTE ]

The sort of remark you might expect from an immature student rather than a [ QUOTE ]
"university lecturer"

[/ QUOTE ]

[/ QUOTE ]

I agree with you. Blue ensign silliness seems to be a sort of convention on these boards, though.
 
As a proud Blue Ensign wearer (unlike that chiel McCulloch wi' his paultry wee red flag wi' St Andy cross), I take exception to his slight! Surely it's the OP's fault for not pointing high enough in the first place and allowing the other boat to sail through his wind. If the OP's sailing is anything like McCulloch's, I too would have been embarrassed and unable to meet his eye for fear of laughing.
 
[ QUOTE ]
As a proud Blue Ensign wearer (unlike that chiel McCulloch wi' his paultry wee red flag wi' St Andy cross), I take exception to his slight! Surely it's the OP's fault for not pointing high enough in the first place and allowing the other boat to sail through his wind. If the OP's sailing is anything like McCulloch's, I too would have been embarrassed and unable to meet his eye for fear of laughing.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think you must be thinking of someone else. At least I don't try to break bits of my boat by giving them a Glasgow kiss.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top