Didn't you use your anchors?
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Frogmogman
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Sic in Transit Gloria
Stemar
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Some entertainment of a slightly less drastic sort to be had at Bosham, too
Frogmogman
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Poey50
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Hilarious. Gawping at Bosham is a good day out depending on where you park. Love the three ducks.
Stemar
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Your choice of car park determines whether you are the entertained or the entertainer
dom
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Would passing motorists take such delight if a yacht accidentally slipped its mooring?
A strange thing, schadenfreude.
Poey50
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The other great hidden pleasure is telling people off on the Internet.
Poey50
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For anyone else disturbed by the humour, there is a large well-signed paying car park around 100 yards before this spot. In fact the road leads into the car park. You have to turn off from this and then drive straight past signs warning people not to park because of the tide. You have to put some effort in, so If cheapskate motorists wish to entertain I may not be able to stifle the odd chortle especially with a Benny Hill soundtrack.
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Barnacle Bill
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Looks like they need to put a couple of tide questions in the driver theory test.
Frogmogman
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Bad passage planning by the drivers in question. Failure to calculate height of tide at the port of destination.
jamie N
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The Royal Oak at Langstone used to have this entertainment on a regular basis; fortnightly I'd say!
BobnLesley
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I suspect that it was either Bosham or Langstone which we visited on a sail training yacht many years ago; I took a photo as we passed within 15' of a triangular road sign which warned of a 'Soft Verge', though with a 5'6" draft, we were worried that said verge might prove to be too hard.
Slowboat35
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Looks to me like Whitehaven harbour is in dire need of dredging.
Caraway
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It's a big slipway and non-tidal. Perhaps it has a long ramp.
I wonder if it's the same woman again? Van in the harbour lands ex-fiancée in the dock
capnsensible
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I cant find humour in people who haven't seen tides and dont know what happens.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Concerto
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Why be such a spoilsport? You know no one else other than the idiot diver will suffer harm, if only embarressment.
Blueboatman
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Think the foreshore is a bit better marked these days .
The pub at Bosham used to have an outside door to the terrace the size and look of a submarine hatch . Levers , steel flanges and all .
So Mr and Mrs InlandVisitor would be siping their drinks and enjoying scampi fries ( say) and commenting on this bit of design overkill , someone would explain about the spring tide problem and casually ask where they left the car....?
Iirc the submarine door leaked when first put in ??
The pub at Bosham used to have an outside door to the terrace the size and look of a submarine hatch . Levers , steel flanges and all .
So Mr and Mrs InlandVisitor would be siping their drinks and enjoying scampi fries ( say) and commenting on this bit of design overkill , someone would explain about the spring tide problem and casually ask where they left the car....?
Iirc the submarine door leaked when first put in ??
Stemar
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From memory, it's been well marked for years, but that hasn't stopped people being stupid.
One or two of the incidents will have been expensive - but that's what insurance is for, most of those in the video I posted will have suffered no more than wet feet and embarrassment, so a little schadenfreude is totally in order, in just the same way as the innocent merriment that comes from watching someone make a pigs ear of mooring.
As long as it's only their pride that gets hurt, calling it entertainment is fine in my book, and I speak as one who has provided such entertainment myself on occasion. If it looks like going beyond that, I'll stop being entertained and do my best to mitigate the damage.
One or two of the incidents will have been expensive - but that's what insurance is for, most of those in the video I posted will have suffered no more than wet feet and embarrassment, so a little schadenfreude is totally in order, in just the same way as the innocent merriment that comes from watching someone make a pigs ear of mooring.
As long as it's only their pride that gets hurt, calling it entertainment is fine in my book, and I speak as one who has provided such entertainment myself on occasion. If it looks like going beyond that, I'll stop being entertained and do my best to mitigate the damage.
Poey50
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Perfectly expressed.