Grumpy old men complaints.

The Q said:
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.
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Can you make your boat go sideways without a bowthruster when you fly that?
 
"Foreigners " who use a union flag ("jack"!?!) As a UK courtesy flag (bad enough?)...and then hoist it upside down!

I'm tempted to use my numeral 3 flag as a French "courtesy" flag...but suspect penalties might be greater 😉
 
doug748 said:
Let me kick things off quietly with - dangling fenders off the pushpit.
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During our first trip I hung the fenders on the aft rail for convenience.
The wife was annoyed.
"Oiye. We paid for this boat. stop making it look like we have chartered it for the day"
As a result I have always hung them on the aft rail, just to annoy her, even though she no longer comes on the boat.
 
Nyerere, all them people what don't ave anywhere to put them fenders away don't deserve to ave boats in the first place, the ungrateful selfish gits.
 
The thing is....no matter what you do...you can never please a purist. But because nobody could actually boat if they followed all of the social etiquette...fenders, fender socks, flags etc....so everyone gets to pick the one thing that irritates them the most...leaving plenty of time to sail and moan....it’s a perfect compromise
 
Bouba said:
The thing is....no matter what you do...you can never please a purist. But because nobody could actually boat if they followed all of the social etiquette...fenders, fender socks, flags etc....so everyone gets to pick the one thing that irritates them the most...leaving plenty of time to sail and moan....it’s a perfect compromise
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Do French sailors moan about extremely petty and pointless nonsense?
 
OMG, the Spanish Government has just legalised Airb&b style rentals for private boats!!! Imagine if the UK Government did this, aged sailors might actually burst with red faced indignation. AAARGH!
 
seeSimon said:
"Foreigners " who use a union flag ("jack"!?!) As a UK courtesy flag (bad enough?)...and then hoist it upside down!

I'm tempted to use my numeral 3 flag as a French "courtesy" flag...but suspect penalties might be greater 😉
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I once approached a German in Dover with an inverted Union Jack and asked him iif he was in distress. As far as I remember it didn't go down very well.

To give them their due, they don't always get good advice when buying a flag abroad. We made friends with a Dutch family whose courtesy ensign was a jack because that was what their chandler told them they needed. (We went on to play Scrabble with their children, who couldn't cope because there weren't enough Js in our set).
 
Here's my list .....

1. Boats that come into a crowded anchorage and anchor on top of my anchor.
2. Boats that play loud music into the early hours in quiet anchorages.
3. People who run generators and aircon all night in quiet anchorages - stay in a hotel!
4. A$$holes who leave their rubbish on the Crinan towpath during West Highland Week - that one has been a pet hate for 45 years..
5. Party flotillas that anchor upwards of 30 boats in a circle and proceed to drink too much. party all night making loads of noise, and leave the seabed strewn with glasses, bottles, towels and other lost property.
6. A$$holes in superyachts who spoil the view by blocking it with 3 to 4 stories of floating condo - stick to the harbours or anchor a decent distance off.
7. Jet skis in crowded anchorages driven by morons with no regard for the noise pollution, wake, and general chaos they create.
8. SUPpers who drift past my boat, staring in like my cockpit is a zoo exhibit - I've considered knocking repeat offenders off and opening the holding tanks.
9. Tourist boats that come into quiet anchorages for a lunch stop and release hoards of drunken, noisy, sunburnt tourists into the water to shriek and thrash around.

... reading all that you wouldn't believe that I sail for fun and relaxation. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Baggywrinkle said:
Here's my list .....

1. Boats that come into a crowded anchorage and anchor on top of my anchor.
2. Boats that play loud music into the early hours in quiet anchorages.
3. People who run generators and aircon all night in quiet anchorages - stay in a hotel!
4. A$$holes who leave their rubbish on the Crinan towpath during West Highland Week - that one has been a pet hate for 45 years..
5. Party flotillas that anchor upwards of 30 boats in a circle and proceed to drink too much. party all night making loads of noise, and leave the seabed strewn with glasses, bottles, towels and other lost property.
6. A$$holes in superyachts who spoil the view by blocking it with 3 to 4 stories of floating condo - stick to the harbours or anchor a decent distance off.
7. Jet skis in crowded anchorages driven by morons with no regard for the noise pollution, wake, and general chaos they create.
8. SUPpers who drift past my boat, staring in like my cockpit is a zoo exhibit - I've considered knocking repeat offenders off and opening the holding tanks.
9. Tourist boats that come into quiet anchorages for a lunch stop and release hoards of drunken, noisy, sunburnt tourists into the water to shriek and thrash around.

... reading all that you wouldn't believe that I sail for fun and relaxation. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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We're a bit short of superyachts where I go, but I see your points. For my part I would add inconsiderate rafters. Even when we have managed to get them to tie up properly (= as I would wish) they more often than not use my boat as a mere gangplank, with no consideration to footwear or times of crossing. The ultimate disgrace applies to those who cross our cockpit.
 
Etiquette was ridiculed in 90's and hasn't really recovered, with current bad form being taught as normal behaviour e.g. lassoing "Hippo" style mooring buoys, rafting neighbours walking through cockpits and Russians.
 
capnsensible said:
Nyerere, all them people what don't ave anywhere to put them fenders away don't deserve to ave boats in the first place, the ungrateful selfish gits.
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'Ere, you!

When you was in HM Boats, did you dangle your fenders off the big prop shroud at the back? Did they have f'socks in blue?
Was there a regulation 'ground line hitch' to keep 'em attached, inspected by a bo'sn?
 
johnalison said:
We're a bit short of superyachts where I go, but I see your points. For my part I would add inconsiderate rafters. Even when we have managed to get them to tie up properly (= as I would wish) they more often than not use my boat as a mere gangplank, with no consideration to footwear or times of crossing. The ultimate disgrace applies to those who cross our cockpit.
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We are thankfully spared rafters in the Adriatic, haven't seen it done in the 15 or so years I've been there.

I have just fitted a bowsprit with a platform on it, next step is a ladder to allow me to moor bows in instead of the normal stern-to Med mooring. Then even in Marinas we can avoid being a zoo exhibit while in the cockpit. (y) In a lot of harbours you can get unlucky and end up moored at the wrong end of a pontoon and have to suffer the continuous evening traffic past the cockpit, which gets louder and drunker as the evening progresses.
 
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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I never got around to painting out the Monitor Monika and replacing it with a Union Jack.
But I had intended to
As for fenders aft. Well, they’re waterproof and I look forwards mostly m’lud
So, guilty as charged 😄
 
Baggywrinkle said:
Here's my list .....

1. Boats that come into a crowded anchorage and anchor on top of my anchor.
2. Boats that play loud music into the early hours in quiet anchorages.
3. People who run generators and aircon all night in quiet anchorages - stay in a hotel!
4. A$$holes who leave their rubbish on the Crinan towpath during West Highland Week - that one has been a pet hate for 45 years..
5. Party flotillas that anchor upwards of 30 boats in a circle and proceed to drink too much. party all night making loads of noise, and leave the seabed strewn with glasses, bottles, towels and other lost property.
6. A$$holes in superyachts who spoil the view by blocking it with 3 to 4 stories of floating condo - stick to the harbours or anchor a decent distance off.
7. Jet skis in crowded anchorages driven by morons with no regard for the noise pollution, wake, and general chaos they create.
8. SUPpers who drift past my boat, staring in like my cockpit is a zoo exhibit - I've considered knocking repeat offenders off and opening the holding tanks.
9. Tourist boats that come into quiet anchorages for a lunch stop and release hoards of drunken, noisy, sunburnt tourists into the water to shriek and thrash around.

... reading all that you wouldn't believe that I sail for fun and relaxation. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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Fine work there, every offence against good manners deserves a flogging.

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