Halliards (sp?)

[Samb]

Ever been in one of those “trances’” asleep? Your just half asleep and half awake and are quite happy to remain in such a state for the rest of your life when, you here a slight breeze get up and "TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK". The rag and stick people along side you have their halliard (I think this is what its called) not properly tied up and its tinking away like mad, causing you to come out of your trance and lay awake for the rest of the night. My question is, has anyone ever done anything or knows of anyone who has ever sorted the problem out? This is commonplace in most marinas and I find it everywhere I go.

Samb
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Updated 28/11/01

 

[oldgit]

Hacksaw ? NM

NM

 

[longjohnsilver]

If there's no one aboard I've gone and tied the damned things up to stop the row.

 

[hlb]

No but then we've got a Styll Saw with a bloody powerfull petrol engine on the back and its going down to the boat next time. Or if only slightly annoyed theres the angle grinder which is quieter., but still quite effective.

Haydn

 

[Guest]

Boltcroppers is the answer, it's more exspensive for them to renew halyard when its in half, then they might learn to keep it tight.

Paul js.

 

[Solwaycruiser]

It annoys us rag and stick types just as much as it does you. I have climbed aboard many another (empty) sailing boat and tied of loose lines so I could get a good nights sleep. Perhaps someone could tell me what to do about generators running all night on gin palaces (no power available on pontoon) to run fancy lights in the saloon while the crews sleep in a drunken slumber! Now I realise it will only be a small minority that will do this but whats the answer?

 

[coliholic]

Gennie\'s

A potato up the exhaust pipe. If it doesn't stop it running at least you can have a nice hot jacket potato whilst you listen to the gentle thrum of the exhaust. Course that'll teach you for being a miserable raggie. If you'd been sociable, they'd probably have invited you for a drink and you'd have been lying there pissed as well with the TV and DVD running, central heating or airconditioning on and the icemaker working overtime.

 

[ParaHandy]

Smoke pots

apart from the gennies, there's the engines... Bod on other side to me has twin zillion bhp 6 cyl turbo charged diesels which cause a low lying and very dense fog when he starts up and keeps emitting this noxious pong until he sets off. He and I help each other with mooring etc - just a sublime example of raggie-stinkpotters co-operation. I want to buy him something for xmas that subtly, like, lets him know about his "bad breath". Is there a boook? I'd buy him a spare injector but don't know the make of engine and that might be misconstrued. A tattie in his exhaust (it'd need to be a bluidy big one) wouldn't be too appropriate in the circumstances, I feel, particularly as he likes the Macallan and doesn't put water in it.

 

[paulineb]

Re: Smoke pots

Here's a VERY subtle plan. Buy gas masks for your entire crew and then the next time he comes in to moor up, you can all put on your gas masks and run outside to take his ropes.

Pxx
Have a cool yule

 

[Guest]

These days, most rag and stick merchants do try to tie up their halyards, but there is sometimes one a little looser than the others - or the wind pipes up. I agree that the odd halyard slapping away is intrusive and annoying, but when I first joined the rag and stick fraternity, no one bothered tying them up and hence, in the slightest breeze, marinas were an absolute cacophony of noise. It was a noise that we became stoical about, and even grew to love. Certainly I found it easier to sleep in that environment than I do now, when there is only the odd halyard slapping.