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pessimist

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Had hoped for a sail today but no wind. Never mind, we thought; bottle of wine, cold chicken, chill out in the cockpit with a good book.

No chance, we have screaming brats to the left, to the right and behind. This follows on from screaming at 9pm yesterday and a howling tantrum at eight this morning.

Anyone else fed up with thoughtless fcuking morons who can't or won't control their spawn and subject the rest of us to the atmosphere of the kindergarten?
 
Your post could cause a storm i have 3 kids all over twenty now and during the last twenty years have visited some realy nice places around the globe and always kept them under control ,tell me do you have or had kids
 
I know what you mean. Fortunately for me, most parents keep their lovely little brats well away. This is mainly because their kids have an alergic reaction to me; they break out in black eyes and bruising. What annoys me is when they leave blood stains on my 6-iron.
 
Yep!! Entirely agree, many parents are totally irresponsible and lazy when it comes controlling their rabble. I tend to be a bit outspoken and usually go over and make damn sure they know I'm pi**ed off! Usually works too, as most of these cretins don't apparently even realise the misery the little thugs are causing.

And yes, I have two sons (now grown up) who sailed from when they were born. One of the nicest things people could say to us was, "Oh do bring your children too!!"

Cheers Jerry
 
Just got in from a day out on the water with our two ungrateful swine, they manage to bicker and annoy each other from sunrise to sundown, not so bad ashore but once in the confines of the boat they can be a nightmare and today was one of those days, having said that they did not make that much noise that other boats would have been bothered. Other boats may have been more bothered by our comments to the kids.

When they want to be helpful they are great and a pleasure but every once in a while they will kick off and when they do there can be no unembarrassing way of putting down the mutiny which is what it usually amounts to. Todays main problem was that the promised (by me) sunshine did not materialise so they were not keen to swim or do much else.

Still at the end of it all my wife and I enjoyed some very nice chilled wine and after that it would take an atom bomb to upset our demeanour.
 
Re: A simple solution...

Dear Pessimist.
To 'go sailing' suggests a need for wind. Not so.
I have a perfectly good sailing yacht which has this big lump of rotating mass in the bilge, which belches water and noise when there is no wind available. Such as today. Motored up the Crouch and stuck the hook down in entrance to the Roach. Bliss, and very nearly childless except fo the bloke in the Westerly next to me who has an outboard motor/rubber dinghy fetish.
No matter. Glorious lunch, completed the Sunday papers, and ghosted back up on the tide under chute.
Also suggest a swinging mooring with a decent launch service. Then your nearest neighbours are about 30 metres away each. Personally I cant stand clattering marina pontoons, especially when inhabited by miniature shark bait. Yes, we have 16, 18, 20.

Also believe that remonstrating with the folk who copulated to bring you the horror show. May not solve anything, but a good rant often helps.

Perhaps next weekend will be better?


Jim
 
Re: A simple solution...

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which belches water and noise when there is no wind available.

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Sounds uncannily like SWMO.

I also accept most of what you say, when we sailed the East Coast we would probably have done exactly as you advise. BTW we know the anchorage at/in the Roach well. Its more difficult here in the West Country - nice sheltered creeks are at a bit of a premium.

Anyway glad you had a good time. We've drunk the wine now and I'm much more mellow. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Cheers,

Colin
 
The knuckledraggers to the left are now setting up a healthy cheer every 20 seconds, presumably because the little [--word removed--] has managed to control its bodily functions for 15 seconds.

I'm becoming less mellow by the second.
 
[--word removed--] is a perfectly acceptable invective in todays dumbed down society. Even heard Ned Sherrin say pissed at lunchtime on Radio 4 yesterday......

Becomes unacceptably non PC when prefixed by You Little.....
But then I have had a belly full of little Adam and Jocasta on the pontoons who have picked up the sneering arrogance and snotty sarcasm routine from their allegedly well raised and mannered parents.

Perhaps a little Radio 3 at just under the pain barrier?
 
Another reason why I moved from marina to a swinging mooring and it's not just the offspring. I have four children aged 8, 10, 14,16 and I firmly believe it is my resposibility to control my children and prevent them and their behaviour from infringing upon others whilst ensuring we all have fun on the water, there's no excuse for it, bad parenting!
 
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