Charges on the Hamble....

BlueTwo said:
Wow! Was he wearing eye protection like sunglasses or specs. or was he just lucky
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I don't think he was wearing anything. I guess he closed his eyes as the wave came over the bow, I know I did (sitting in the front passenger seat).

As well as a faceful of glass (probably about a kilo of it overall, across face and chest) he also got a hefty thwack across the forehead from the aluminium frame off the top of the window, which then disappeared over the side.

His friend's girlfriend was in the seat behind him, but fortunately she was already cowering under a spare jacket to hide from the wind and spray, plus his body took most of the impact, so she wasn't really hit by anything, just surrounded by it afterwards. She did look pretty shocked when he turned round with a faceful of blood though. I don't think she's planning to come out again ;)

I've always found fast motorboats much more scary than anything I've ever done on a sailing boat.

Fortunately my side of the windscreen held together, though the frame was loosened and I had to hold it in place all the way back.

Pete
 
Speedboats ought to have airbags. Maybe dinghies could have boom-airbags, too? :rolleyes:

This thread has turned me right off Hamble!

I had a day there about a year ago, including a thoroughly indifferent overpriced pub-lunch in Warsash. A pity, places like Hamble are made popular only by their convenience, so their landowners & mannerless acolytes soon become just so many parking-meter attendants.

I could almost learn to like marinas! At least they're honestly just boat parking-places, not made out as beauty spots. I think that was the real let down to me, visiting Hamble...plenty of boats, so it's interesting; but nothing like so attractive as less crowded harbours.
 
dancrane said:
Speedboats ought to have airbags.
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How would that have helped? We didn't stop suddenly, we weren't thrown forwards. I think what happened was two waves colliding and throwing a lump of water into the air, as they sometimes do, and we came and shoved our bow through it. From my point of view, we had been speeding over the waves at maybe 15 knots, and then suddenly a big lump of green water appeared from nowhere and smashed through the windscreen.

Pete
 
Talulah said:
The web site is very misleading.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hambleharbour/dues-moorings.htm

"All craft using the River Hamble are required to pay Harbour Dues annually from 1 January to 31 December."

because clearly all craft using the river are not required to pay harbour dues 'annually'.

So I to would like to see clarification of when it is and isn't payable. i.e. bunkering.
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So it suggests that if you berth annually in one of the four marinas on the Hamble, you are required to pay the extra £174.46 fee to the Harbour master if you own a vessel of 11 metres? :eek:
 
At various times I berthed on the Hamble for probably 5 years in total. I do think it has got a lot worse, to the extent that I would not ever berth there again.

Was actually pretty good when I drysailed a race boat in the early 00s but now it is too crowded, too busy, has impossible parking at peak times and lots of bad manners exhibited from all types of boaters.
 
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