Generators bloody generators!!

[DavidJ]

Do other peoples generators bother you.
Many times this year (in the Med) we have parked up in a beautiful idilic marina to find the guy next door fires up his generator and keeps it going all night. The constant water ploping out is more annoying than the hummm. Ok the reason he does it is that the shore support is often inadequate for the two fridges, AC, microwave, electric cooker etc etc but I feel sometimes we are getting close to losing the plot.
Perhaps it's only me?
David

 

[ccscott49]

I know what you mean, I have a genny, but only need it at anchor, then only for 6 hours, (which will be 3 when I get a new charger) I only run it during the day, after 10 in the morning and I have fitted a cowl to stop the splosh, splosh. It's not just you, it annoys lots of people!

 

[mustard]

Aren't flapping halyards worse, or is always windless out there?

Excuse by ignorance, but how does the cowl stop the plop,plop? Redirect the flow?

 

[DavidJ]

Are halyard those wire things that raggies seem to like clanking against their hollow aluminium masts. Yes, that's worse but I can go out at night with my insulating tape and tape it quiet.
David

 

[ccscott49]

Yes, normally it shoots out the side, hitting the water, splosh, now it hits the cowl and just runs, almost soundlessly down the side of the boat, works on mine anyway, the outlet is only about a foot above the water, the cowl is ablout five inches long, so the water just runs down the bootopping and away. I didn't want to go for the expensive water seperator thingy, I'm cheap!

 

[DavidJ]

Excellent idea, you can moor next to me now if you like
David

 

[mustard]

I'm designing a sel-adhesive cowl you can sneak out at night and stick on. Reckon there's a fortune there?

 

[DavidJ]

Yep, I'd pay a fiver for one

 

[peterb]

Do it with rubber suckers. You could put it over the offending exhaust at night, then sneak out and remove it in the morning and keep it ready for the next offender

 

[DavidJ]

mind you I would feel very guilty if in the morning all the occupants had died through gas posioning....solves the problem cheaply and permanently though.

 

[byron]

<font color=red>Does the lapping of wavelets against your hull also bother you as much as the gentle 'plopping' of the exhaust water from the generator? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif</font color=red>

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[mustard]

All marinas need anti-wavelet machines, stick-on water diverters, free rolls of really sticky tape for halyards, ladders at all points where raggies berth, white noise generators for returning party-goers, 20’ high wind diverters, sound-proof outboards made mandatory, and no oars allowed – the rythmic dip-dip drives me made....

 

[DavidJ]

I think that when you are close to nature as many of our Med marina stopovers have been any deliberate man made noise is irritating. Fish leaping out of the water, those grasshoppery things mating and wavelets ..no problem although their db count could be the same.
David

 

[tcm]

It's polite to ask if they can use their other generator, on the other side of the boat.

 

[mustard]

That's so true - we can sleep thru 85db of seagulls at 5 am down here, but the car alarm at 4 wakes us every time../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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