Do boat ownersin marinas do something to anoy you?

[SimbaDog]

I must admit sometimes in the small hours I am woken by a noise from a halyard, or a wind-genny or a squeeking fender or such... Then my mind focusses on the sound to the exclusion of all else and it keeps me awake...

The more you try and ignore it... the more you hear it and it drives you mad

Hmmm..... Yes, been there, funny old thing the brain

I've not had any problems in marinas, had several when rafted up or on pontoons though!

 

[Terra-Loon]

A set of wax ear pugs costs about £3.00. Since I started using these I can sleep through anything.

 

[richardbayle]

Plus:
Standing in a group chatting away oblivious to people trying to get past. Usually at the entrance to the gangways.

Leaving trolleys near their berth instead of returning them.

You get trolleys? Luxury

 

[ripvan1]

2 points - maybe when you've done some real boy's own survival sailing the noises you're describing will seem so inconsequential as to become music to your lug'oles - also don't go to marseilles while the mistral's blowing, it sounds like pink floyd warming up for hours on end - don't know who you could moan about it to

 

[Nostrodamus]

Boat knockers....
You know the type... walk up to have a look around your boat and for some reason start knocking the hull or deck.. I suppose the land based version is tyre kicking.
People who borrow your hose without asking and just leave it attached to the water outlet on their pontoon.
The worse was someone who unplugged our electricity on a pre paid system and hooked up their own lead. We have also had the same with water on a metered system when someone who didn't realise we were aboard decided our water would be fine to wash his boat.

 

[Seven Spades]

Who are the People I can't stand… "Missionaries"

Seriously people who share a cleat and use one line for two jobs, consequently to release your own line you have first to remove their spring and bow line and if the tide is running it is a nightmare.

I feel better now.

 

[Seajet]

I actually like the sound of frapping halliards, it helps me sleep.

What I do find annoying is rich gits with a procession of pretty bimbo's while I'm left with a candle and a book !

 

[Wansworth]

Worked many years ago at Emsworth marina.One assignment was to tie up flapping halliards.spent all afternoon tieing up then booking owners.....the manager thought it was too much to charge so binned the bills......apparently neighbours in houses complained about the oise.

 

[onesea]

So you'd be offended by a heater, which serves the rather useful purpose of keeping people warm, when you can't hear it from inside your boat?

If so, then that's just plain odd. You'd be choosing to be offended by, well, nothing at all. Bizarre.

I did say most noises, like all things in life there is some common sense to be required. When I cannot here children laughing or have to raise my voice to be heard over such noises then IMHO that is not nothing at all...

Horses for courses living where I do you can always here the city dwellers shouting there way through the town...

Yesterday in London we found ourselves having to talk noticeably louder...

I guess its what your used to....

 

[Greenheart]

apparently neighbours in houses complained about the oise.

Oise is alway infuriating. I've heard the worst variety is suffered by those mooring on the Ouse.

 

[Wansworth]

Oise is alway infuriating. I've heard the worst variety is suffered by those mooring on the Ouse.

You have nothing to do on a wet saturday morning either.......

 

[Greenheart]

You have nothing to do on a wet saturday morning either.......

When I finally get a boat again, there'll be a long season's silence from my corner, on these pages...

 

[Wansworth]

When I finally get a boat again, there'll be a long season's silence from my corner, on these pages...

actually owning a boat will furnish all manner of material for posting;calculating heights of secondary ports or inner forstays.....

 

[Greenheart]

actually owning a boat will furnish all manner of material for posting...

Watch this space! I'll be asking whether I can mount a 75hp Mercury through a Mirror's centreboard case, or what the readership's view is of a glass-bottomed RIB made from two cut & shut Renault Espace roofs, or can I make a desalinator with a bicycle pump...

 

[Grumpybear]

Watch this space! I'll be asking whether I can mount a 75hp Mercury through a Mirror's centreboard case, or what the readership's view is of a glass-bottomed RIB made from two cut & shut Renault Espace roofs, or can I make a desalinator with a bicycle pump...

Absolutely not!!!! That sort of DIY whatever belongs on the PBO forum. Let's keep Scuttlebutt properly divorced from reality.

 

[chinita]

I actually like the sound of frapping halliards

But frapped halliards make no sound.

See posts #53 and #58.

 

[chinita]

Boat knockers....
You know the type... walk up to have a look around your boat and for some reason start knocking the hull or deck.

Aw, c'mon; they are only checking to see that the snot has actually frozen.

 

[Grumpybear]

Aw, c'mon; they are only checking to see that the snot has actually frozen.

Whereas with a wooden boat they would be checking that the worms were still awake?

 

[Greenheart]

Let's keep Scuttlebutt properly divorced from reality.

Dangerous sentiments...I'm as easily led as...as an LED.

Have any marinas with lock-gate entrances, considered building a meter-wide tunnel to the sea just above the marina's low-water mark, to contain a turbine-rotor-thingey, to generate a few watts every six hours?

It'd be a bit of token-greenery, and sure to attract excitable spectators. I'd go to see.

What's the greatest high-low tide range inside locked marinas? On chilly-season days when nobody comes in or goes out, several thousand tonnes of brine blasting through a turbine might make enough charge to keep the light on in the gents overnight...

...and it might briefly drown the sound of vomitting children & Rutland twirlies.

 

[Nostrodamus]

We have those darkened windows which make it difficult to see in from the outside but easy to see out from the inside.
We do get a lot of people, hands cupped around their face, pressing against the glass and peering in. They get quiet a shock when they actually see someone aboard or mooning back!
Come on... Would you walk up to someone's house and stand there peering in through the front window?