Lakesailor
Well-Known Member
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So if you saw something like this,would you just ignore it?
[/ QUOTE ] Now, probably.
I've been and secured half a dozen headsails in the past few years. I had most of the phone numbers for owners on our moorings. Some were grateful, some didn't seem bothered. Without exception they carried on leaving the sail furled with the line just in a jamming cleat or similar. I always made off my furling line and put a bungee around the headsail secured to the clew.
The last boat on our moorings to suffer happened in a very windy period. The owner was unknown to me and the boat had been walkabout before. I reasoned that if I went on board and the boat subsequentally left it's moorings, I may be blamed.
So I just told the warden. He told the owner, twice, but he never came and then after 2 weeks of flap, flap all day and night the boat made off on it's own.
The warden reckons it holds the record for the most miles travelled on the lake without a crew. This was it's fifth escape. It was a UFO 31. That will be costing £1K a year to moor.
Why do people bother to have a boat?
Interestingly it had unravelled despite the clew being bound up. I guess it must have been loosley furled.
So if you saw something like this,would you just ignore it?
[/ QUOTE ] Now, probably.
I've been and secured half a dozen headsails in the past few years. I had most of the phone numbers for owners on our moorings. Some were grateful, some didn't seem bothered. Without exception they carried on leaving the sail furled with the line just in a jamming cleat or similar. I always made off my furling line and put a bungee around the headsail secured to the clew.
The last boat on our moorings to suffer happened in a very windy period. The owner was unknown to me and the boat had been walkabout before. I reasoned that if I went on board and the boat subsequentally left it's moorings, I may be blamed.
So I just told the warden. He told the owner, twice, but he never came and then after 2 weeks of flap, flap all day and night the boat made off on it's own.
The warden reckons it holds the record for the most miles travelled on the lake without a crew. This was it's fifth escape. It was a UFO 31. That will be costing £1K a year to moor.
Why do people bother to have a boat?
Interestingly it had unravelled despite the clew being bound up. I guess it must have been loosley furled.
