For the love of God, can we have a separate ‘Anchors and Anchoring’ forum please?

[fredrussell]

I can’t take it any more.
Mods, if you create a separate anchor forum I will donate £100 to the RNLI and post proof I have done so on here.

 

[jlavery]

The YACF cycling forum has a cast iron rule that ALL helmet discussions go in the Helmets forum. We need the same here for anchor discussions.

 

[Poey50]

I can’t take it any more.
Mods, if you create a separate anchor forum I will donate £100 to the RNLI and post proof I have done so on here.

Genuine question. Why do you read the anchor threads? They aren't compulsory.

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Genuine question. Why do you read the anchor threads? They aren't compulsory.

But they are hugely entertaining and occasionally informative.

 

[[70521]]

During my morning perambulation of the yard this week I saw a dinghy attached to an old battery; I am assuming to stop it being blown away. Perhaps we could have a Battery/Anchor sub forum.

What are the holding characteristics of lead acid v lithium? It could be a whole new series of YouTube videos for that chap in Canada.

 

[Deleted member 478]

I can’t take it any more.
Mods, if you create a separate anchor forum I will donate £100 to the RNLI and post proof I have done so on here.

Brilliant idea! Please add one of those toggle switches so that we can hide the new two anchors forum.

 

[Luminescent]

I think this forum would be very boring... since a good chunk of threads devolve into anchor threads regardless of how they started.

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Brilliant idea! Please add one of those toggle switches so that we can hide the new two anchors forum.

Only two?

 

[Deleted member 478]

Only two?

Say "two anchors" really quickly and out loud. Her in doors will likely give you the furrowed brow response

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Doh!

 

[Neeves]

But they are hugely entertaining and occasionally informative.

Is that not the value of most forum? ..... as most threads might be informative for the OP and commonly very dull.

What do people expect - it is free.

Jonathan

 

[Pete7]

Brilliant idea! Please add one of those toggle switches so that we can hide the new two anchors forum.

Think we need two forums, one for new generation anchors that might be worth reading from time to time and another for antique anchors that today are only suitable for decoration next to the garden pond, were ours live.

Is that not the value of most forum? Jonathan

Sadly not, It's the constant bickering caused by people who don't know when to give it a rest.

 

[Neeves]

I can’t take it any more.
Mods, if you create a separate anchor forum I will donate £100 to the RNLI and post proof I have done so on here.

It is so nice to be loved.

I'm amazed you don't, all, already donate stg100.

I had a phone call from the RNLI asking if I could post more and have more people offering to donate stg100. At least the RNLI would see value in anchor threads even if you lot find it nessary to read threads in which you have no interest - you must be really bored.

I stopped reading TNLI's contributions some time ago.

Jonathan

 

[Pete7]

I'm amazed you don't, all, already donate stg100 Jonathan

Rather than donate to the RNLI, we should chip in and buy TNLI a one way plane ticket to Sydney. Perhaps you could host him for some months

 

[Concerto]

What's an anchor? I might have one but never feel the need to talk about it.

Edit. Just checked some old photos of my boat and there seems to be one securely fixed at the bow. Does that count.

 

[Roberto]

A sort of collective psychotherapy session

 

[KevinV]

Genuine question. Why do you read the anchor threads? They aren't compulsory.

Not compulsory, but certainly compulsive viewing - like Dr Pimplepopper, or Failarmy YouTube videos (with many, many, slow motion replays).

 

[MapisM]

I can’t take it any more.
Mods, if you create a separate anchor forum I will donate £100 to the RNLI and post proof I have done so on here.

You just earned my vote as most brilliant suggestion of the month!

I hope you don't mind if I throw in a suggestion that imho would make such forum perfect:
Any new thread posted whose title is in capital letters should be binned automatically and without warning.
I find it amazing that folks who do that, blatantly hoping to make their own thread more important than anything else, usually turn out to be among the most boring and useless contributors ever.
Does that remind you of any recent thread?

 

[Wansworth]

I read along time ago that one boat owner thought the anchour thingy was for grappling mooring piles,do you remember marinas when everybody had CQRs

 

[MapisM]

At least the RNLI would see value in anchor threads even if you lot find it nessary to read threads in which you have no interest

You got the wrong end of the stick, methinks.
1) The RNLI would see value in any incoming donation regardless of the reason - which in this case would NOT be anchor threads per se, but their separation in order to unclutter the rest of the forum.
2) We (at least me, anyhow) do NOT read anchor threads, in principle. But occasionally, I skim through them just because they keep popping up as "new", mostly because some of the contributors start endless and utterly useless fights.
So, the OP idea has merits not because "we" would read less anchor threads (it's very obvious that anyone bored to death could still read them), but because it would unclutter the rest of the forum, where sometimes - believe it or not - there are interesting topics that have nothing to see with anchors.