Grumpy old men complaints.

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I don't mean those requiring special underwear..

In another place it has been suggested that we have a safe haven for old codgers to moan over the demise of good taste. Well here it is.

Let me kick things off quietly with - dangling fenders off the pushpit.
They make a boat look like a bag ladies pram and announce to the world that your boat has three bedrooms, kitchen and a butler's pantry but no cockpit lockers.
I am sure we can all agree on this.

. Thank you Bouba for this suggestion, we will deal with power boats in due course..
 
doug748 said:
I don't mean those requiring special underwear..

In another place it has been suggested that we have a safe haven for old codgers to moan over the demise of good taste. Well here it is.

Let me kick things off quietly with - dangling fenders off the pushpit.
They make a boat look like a bag ladies pram and announce to the world that your boat has three bedrooms, kitchen and a butler's pantry but no cockpit lockers.
I am sure we can all agree on this.

. Thank you Bouba for this suggestion, we will deal with power boats in due course..
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I can't find Bouba's suggestion.

Maybe it is for the good !

Edit. Found it by mistake :cry:
 
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doug748 said:
I don't mean those requiring special underwear..

In another place it has been suggested that we have a safe haven for old codgers to moan over the demise of good taste. Well here it is.

Let me kick things off quietly with - dangling fenders off the pushpit.
They make a boat look like a bag ladies pram and announce to the world that your boat has three bedrooms, kitchen and a butler's pantry but no cockpit lockers.
I am sure we can all agree on this.

. Thank you Bouba for this suggestion, we will deal with power boats in due course..
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Agree about dangling fenders, I once heard them described as "hanging off the back of the boat like a bunch of hemorrhoids".

Haven't been able to rid myself of the image ever since.
 
We have been known to hang a couple of fenders off our pushpit. I can fit them (with the others) in the cockpit locker, but then finding lines, buckets etc becomes a game of Tetris. I didn’t know I was irritating grumpy old men - but I suppose that’s an extra bonus - my ensign is also not struck at sunset, and sail with my sprayhood up…
 
Guilty. In my defence I had hauled them out of the lockers along with the mooring ropes after a long passage, and was preparing to go alongside. Taken from the Dinghy after a trip to the Marina Office to sort out a berth. No, I wouldn't go to sea like that..Looks horrible! :) Anchorage at Portimao.

 
Concrete boats don't need fenders much either, they built a lot around here..

I'll be raising a light blue ensign on Friday.. here.. Home | RAF Air Defence Radar Museum

And this definitely grumpy old man's remarks, From another thread... Bow thrusters being used for steering along a river..
Tourists speeding in day boats, on the way to the pub, through dinghy fleets including children as low as 8 years old.
 
This thread is barely a few overs old...and yet we have gone through several subjects at speed. We have saved the YBW website a fortune in ink
 
johnalison said:
People who dangle our nation's ensign from the backstay as if it were a tea-towel hanging to dry.
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Guilty. Although if you look closely you will see the halyard is in fact vertical. Small block on the back stay and the Ensign run up to the block, so the hoist of the Ensign was vertical, not draped. Alongside the Ensign went on a staff as usual. (y)
 
johnalison said:
People who dangle our nation's ensign from the backstay as if it were a tea-towel hanging to dry.
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Guilty as charged.

I used to dangle it from a staff until I fitted a Monitor wind vane. Then the two could not co-exist.

But it didn't look too bad up the backstay.

ps anyone want to buy an ensign staff? ;)

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Poignard said:
Guilty as charged.

I used to dangle it from a staff until I fitted a Monitor wind vane. Then the two could not co-exist.

But it didn't look too bad up the backstay.

ps anyone want to buy an ensign staff? ;)

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That end of your boat does look a little busy.....how do you swim ?.....sorry, you are a yachtie, how do you bathe ?
 
ylop said:
....... my ensign is also not struck at sunset, and sail with my sprayhood up…
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It sounds ok, we are not monsters, l will run it past the committee for a ruling.

Think you will be fine, well, as long as you don't have one of those canvas sheds on the back of the boat.

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Now here is a case in point.

A 34ft boat has just missed my stern dragging it's anchor. The crew shot from the cabin in Y fronts and quickly diagnosed the trouble - the engine was turning at 2000 revs in reverse gear.

The bowman nearly dislocated his arms on the chain till the skipper came forward and sorted things
"Look John..... Theres a winch here, why don't we use that?"

Dinghy course requied, I think a winter in Wayfarers would do the trick. Case closed on the best way to learn sailoring.

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