Entering Lymington Harbour without an engine.

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Having read on this forum, that it was against the Harbour Rules, I asked the relevant authority, reply below.

"Hi Alan,

The online post is ‘fake news’ I’m afraid!

Regards,

Ryan

Ryan Willegers
Harbour Master & Chief Executive

Lymington Harbour Commissioners
Harbour Office
Bath Road
Lymington
SO41 3SE"
 
I have sailed upriver as far as Lymington and out again in my own boat without anyone taking the slightest interest. On my Dayskipper course years ago we left our berth at Lymington under power and our instructor immediately switched off the engine and said "What are you going to do now?" Answer: Get some sail on and carry one.
 
LadyInBed said:
Carry one where?
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Reminds me of the Yorkshire stone mason who was engaged by a woman to carve "She was thine" into her dead mother's headstone.

When she went to inspect the work she saw he had engraved "She was thin" on it.

The woman rang the stonemason and said "Tha's forgotten t' e". He apologised and said he would put it right at once.

Next day the woman returned to find the headstone read "E she was thin"
 
I have sailed in beyond the ferry terminal on occasion, but I don't think I'd bother if it were upwind...those ferries seem always to be coming up from one direction or the other!
 
alant said:
Tried that off Corfu, they said no.
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a while ago I was chatting with a berthing guy at Northney marina, Chichester Harbour; he mentioned they often have boats just outside with engine u/s, ' but they are not allowed to go and tow them in for insurance reasons '.

Then again I knew a boat which booked in there to have her mast lowered and had to wait hours while they got someone in who was qualified / able / insured to do that...:rolleyes:
 
We were refused permission to sail into Rye Harbour after our engine failed. We were told to await the lifeboat which was being despatched. After querying this decision (after we had been towed in) we were told that too many yachts had got it wrong and blocked the channel up the river.
 
Further to my post just now and to be fair, I was crewing a friends' boat around Hayling once a few years -we had just launched in Langstone Harbour and had a narrow tidal window to make it to his home berth at Emsworth; the engine instantly failed ( had been fine until my chum had it ' pro serviced ' that winter ) - so had a long beat round in light winds, no chance of making it into Emsworth marina with its sill.

As the engine required work and we had to get to ours the next morning, Northney Marina was favourite though it was low water so the short entrance channel very narrow - we called up Northney and explained, they could not have been more helpful and gave us the nearest outside berth straight after the entrance, so we were able to beat in and drift to the pontoon.
 
About a million years ago I spent a week with Britannia sailing on a Sigma 36 with a flat battery. We tacked out of Lymington marina from a berth well down the row of finger pontoons. I remember pushing the boat to get some way on. I imagine we had someone on the jib clew to speed things up. Seemed a bit hairy at the time.
 
Ruffles said:
About a million years ago I spent a week with Britannia sailing on a Sigma 36 with a flat battery. We tacked out of Lymington marina from a berth well down the row of finger pontoons. I remember pushing the boat to get some way on. I imagine we had someone on the jib clew to speed things up. Seemed a bit hairy at the time.
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Not sure you can start a flat battery, by pushing a boat, even if a Sigma 36.;)
 
alant said:
Not sure you can start a flat battery, by pushing a boat, even if a Sigma 36.;)
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No, the correct way of course for really old timers, is to send a crew overboard to flick start the propellor. The generation that grew up with Jetex powered model aeroplanes will remember the pain of repeated efforts flicking the prop. The callouses on my middle finger stayed for years!
 
Resolution said:
No, the correct way of course for really old timers, is to send a crew overboard to flick start the propellor. The generation that grew up with Jetex powered model aeroplanes will remember the pain of repeated efforts flicking the prop. The callouses on my middle finger stayed for years!
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Wasn't "doesn't have a prop" the unique selling point of a Jetex?

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