Disturbing the Peace

[TSB240]

Many people and I enjoy the tranquility and solitude of remote sheltered anchorages.
We have plenty around here.

Last weekend I became concerned for the crew in a small bilge keeler. I was fairly sure he (or she but most unlikely!) had been anchored and/or drying out at the southern entrance of the Menai Strait at Abermenai since the August bank holiday weekend.
I had shared the same anchorage but some distance away on two occasions during that period not seeing any activity or crew during my periods of stay.

A week on from our last visit, I shared my concern to the Harbour Master at Caernarfon, last Sunday morning. I suggested that maybe he could use his binoculars to check out all was ok. They also have a harbour patrol rib which could be used for a closer inspection.

I offer my sincere apologies to the owner for spoiling his Sunday Siesta and interruption of his Straits solitude. :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

https://www.facebook.com/beaumaris.rnli.lifeboat/posts/2350464394968964

Did I do the right thing?

 

[dom]

It's a Yes from me

 

[zoidberg]

Did I do the right thing?

Sure you did.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

You gave them the info, they used it.
All good.

 

[PhillM]

Yes. I’d rather they come and disturbed me when I didn’t need help, than were not called when I did.

 

[wiggy]

100% the right thing to do.

 

[XDC]

Right thing to do but I totally appreciate your concern.

Without thread drifting too much I once saw an Enterprise dinghy at quite some distance and the only way I can describe it is “it didn’t look right”

After possibly 10 minutes even though it hadn’t capsized I still wasn’t comfortable with what I saw so I called the Coastguard.

Holy crap, they said that all their local boats were tasked (windy Bank Holiday) and they were going to call out the helicopter!

Noooooo!!!!! I was thinking, it could just be someone not in trouble but literally learning the ropes.

However before that happened one of their fast ribs finished what they were doing, zoomed up towards the the dinghy but came to a near crash stop. The EXPERIENCED crew had fallen out and was clinging to a pickup bouy, just his head visible, and his girlfriend, although she knew the basics of sailing couldn’t sort the boat out in the prevailing wind and had been hit on the head a few times by the boom. Not seriously but enough to make the task in hand more difficult.

Good result made better when I was told they’d rather be tasked to false alarms than be pulling a body out of the water.

I’ll say it again, you did the right thing :encouragement: