Glad I try to stay out of marinas

Re clanking Halyards i carry some ragged old bits of rope just for the purpose. When they com e back to their pride and joy and find this two inch diameter manky old rope with frayed ends wrapped around their halyards/shrouds and made off with the mother of all granny knots.

The message will sink in.

Re loud music in marinas I only had this problem once and had a word with the manageress of the Marina. She took it very seriously and sorted it.
 
A couple of years ago, I was rafted up with lots of other boaty types in Padstow Harbour, for their celebrated MayDay Festival. Then in came a clutch of 7 or 8 rather large white mobos, obviously close friends, who rafted up in two groups, assisted by the ever-helpful harbourmaster. Their teenagers proceeded to launch PWC machines, and charge around the crowded inner harbour at high speed, creating mayhem.

The portly twats in one group insisted in playing a CD of line-dancing music, hour after hour, at huge volume while their wimmin got fall-down drunk. It came to a head when the Padstow Hobby 'Oss bands came marching in turn around the harbour, as they had done for hundreds of years, and this offensive, conbative noise from the mobos-wazzocks was turned up even higher.....

Next thing, a couple of the drunk teenage 'PWC' boys got into swinging punches at some of the younger dancers on the quay, and were lifted bodily by a group of the Padstow menfolk into one of the waterside hotel/pubs that is the HQ of one of the 'Oss groups. Fat dads on a couple of the offending mobos made as if to climb up, to intercede, but suddenly realised there a couple of hundred Cornishmen, in white with red and blue sashes, gathered at the top of the ladder just waiting for them.

I believe it was one of the local paramedics who stepped in to prevent said mobo owners being torn limb-from-limb...... probably didn't want the paperwork! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Suddenly contrite yoofs were delivered back to their boats, close to unharmed, but ashen-faced. They went below and weren't seen again. I swear if that paramedic hadn't intervened, said mobo drivers and their feral kids would have been filleted and served as sushi in one of Stein's fishy salons.......

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I swear if that paramedic hadn't intervened, said mobo drivers and their feral kids would have been filleted and served as sushi in one of Stein's fishy salons.......


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I knew sushi was dodgy!
 
"I like the wetsuit, aqualung and drill approach" ....

Reminds me of a story (apocryphal?) from Jersey, where a certain mobo owner was notorious for leaving his berth and opening the throttles up almost immediately. The noise and wash so annoyed the others that, seeing as he wasn't changing his habits, a diver went down one night and tied some rope to each shaft and down to a brick.

The next time he engaged gear the ropes wound rapidly round the shafts, the brick flew up from below, and there was a clang and crunch that was very satisfying to the expectant audience. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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A couple of years ago, I was rafted up with lots of other boaty types in Padstow Harbour, for their celebrated MayDay Festival. Then in came a clutch of 7 or 8 rather large white mobos, obviously close friends, who rafted up in two groups, assisted by the ever-helpful harbourmaster. Their teenagers proceeded to launch PWC machines, and charge around the crowded inner harbour at high speed, creating mayhem.

The portly twats in one group insisted in playing a CD of line-dancing music, hour after hour, at huge volume while their wimmin got fall-down drunk. It came to a head when the Padstow Hobby 'Oss bands came marching in turn around the harbour, as they had done for hundreds of years, and this offensive, conbative noise from the mobos-wazzocks was turned up even higher.....

Next thing, a couple of the drunk teenage 'PWC' boys got into swinging punches at some of the younger dancers on the quay, and were lifted bodily by a group of the Padstow menfolk into one of the waterside hotel/pubs that is the HQ of one of the 'Oss groups. Fat dads on a couple of the offending mobos made as if to climb up, to intercede, but suddenly realised there a couple of hundred Cornishmen, in white with red and blue sashes, gathered at the top of the ladder just waiting for them.

I believe it was one of the local paramedics who stepped in to prevent said mobo owners being torn limb-from-limb...... probably didn't want the paperwork! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Suddenly contrite yoofs were delivered back to their boats, close to unharmed, but ashen-faced. They went below and weren't seen again. I swear if that paramedic hadn't intervened, said mobo drivers and their feral kids would have been filleted and served as sushi in one of Stein's fishy salons.......

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Wow! You've managed to get just about every stereotypical Moboer into your story. Oh no - wait. You forgot to mention the huge wash they created when they arrived.

And of course it's a true story...NOT! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
With slatting halyards I try and use the offender's own cordage. Often you can get the tail of a mooring line to do the job.
 
Sadly, as I now run one, it does seem to be mobo people more often than raggies. In Larnaca marina, Cyprus one winter a guy persisted in running a generator on the quay behind his boat for hours a day when the rest of us were working on our boats. My daughters made up a sign saying 'For Sale' and put it beside the thing. With the first enquirer he got the message ... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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There's nothing a 100 decibel merchant hates more than classical music. The 1812 is quite good for that purpose.

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Mahler Symphonies are much better...
 
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Wow! You've managed to get just about every stereotypical Moboer into your story. Oh no - wait. You forgot to mention the huge wash they created when they arrived.

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I think he forgot the one where they come charging up to you on a calm day to see if you need assistance when you're not moving fast/reading/fishing/sh*gging/minding your own business and just enjoying the peace and quiet.

I've a theory about mobo'ers, but more of that in another post.
 
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And of course it's a true story...NOT!

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Another of those 'don't confuse me with the facts' types. Ok, so you'll believe only what suits your prejudices.....

It's true - go down and ask. Otherwise..... ( with all the politesse I can muster ) wind your neck in!


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... We've also always had a car-stereo on our boat with no problems. I'm actually currently planning to install an additional amplifier and a 10 in subwoofer. I'm not planning an outdoor disco, but quality sound when in marina.

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The above is a quote from a Mobochat thread on the huge complexities of fitting a car stereo into a boat.

Apart from physically encouraging the inmates of such a vessel to desist from audio pollution, what steps would forumites take if they found themselves berthed adjacent to such an audiophile.

(My excuse for venturing onto the virtual darkside is a knee op and extreme boredom!)

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Slip a 12mm speed bit into the cordless and introduce it to the hull about 10 times, while the subwoofer is woofing, then sit back and listen while the woofing is reduced to a gurgle.
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And you forgot the one where they come quickly over offering to pull you off the mud on a falling tide when you've pushed your luck tacking ...
 
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