inconsiderate parking for re-launch - with pictures

[ozzie]

Went down to Mercury today to give my brother in law a hand with the re-launch of his Prestige 32. As we walked over to the boat we noticed a solitary car parked on the corner of the storage area. According to the dockies it had been left there for about two weeks, and the only way to move the boats was for them to manoevre the cranes wheels either side of the car with the boat directly over the top of the car! The guys were extremely professional working around the car, but they were a tad annoyed that someone had moved the barriers to park there and just left it. Couldnt resist a couple of pictures...

 

[bendyone]

And they couldn't move the car??

 

[Robin]

Went down to Mercury today to give my brother in law a hand with the re-launch of his Prestige 32. As we walked over to the boat we noticed a solitary car parked on the corner of the storage area. According to the dockies it had been left there for about two weeks, and the only way to move the boats was for them to manoevre the cranes wheels either side of the car with the boat directly over the top of the car! The guys were extremely professional working around the car, but they were a tad annoyed that someone had moved the barriers to park there and just left it. Couldnt resist a couple of pictures...

One boatyard I remember used to use their boatlift to remove badly parked cars and put them somewhere out of their way, but not necessarily convenient to the car owner

 

[ozzie]

Apparently they were worried about trying to move it in case they damaged it. Once they had worked around it a couple of times they had got used to it, but it was mentioned about leaving a picture on his windscreen showing a boat above his car! Personally I would have left him a "polite note" numpty..

 

[prv]

£70 on eBay for a set of 4 skates

Would move it without much risk of damage - certainly less risk than repeatedly edging a travelift over it. You would need to use a jack to get it onto the skates - the hydraulic ones that pick up the wheels directly cost a little more, but even less risk of causing damage as you only touch the tyres. I think if I owned a public car park I would definitely invest in a set of the hydraulic kind just in case:

Pete

 

[GrahamHR]

Wasn't the car parked not too badly in a properly marked parking bay ? - it certainly looked like it to me. Isn't it a layout problem with the yard, that has parking places in front of where boats are stored ?

 

[prv]

Wasn't the car parked not too badly in a properly marked parking bay ? - it certainly looked like it to me. Isn't it a layout problem with the yard, that has parking places in front of where boats are stored ?

My reading of the OP was that the yard had closed off those spaces with barriers because they were using the area to store boats, but the car driver had shifted the barriers in order to park there anyway. Lots of yards have areas they use as boat park in winter (when fewer people are visiting) and car park in summer (when lots of people are driving down to use their boats). At ours they have a row of surplus boat cradles moved back and forth as the divider - takes a forklift to move 'em so the issue doesn't arise

Pete

 

[GrahamHR]

My reading of the OP was that the yard had closed off those spaces with barriers because they were using the area to store boats, but the car driver had shifted the barriers in order to park there anyway. Pete

Maybe he/ she had moved the barriers, but maybe they hadn't. If someone else had moved them., maybe days/ weeks previously before it became an issue, they could well have been innocent of what seems like knowingly obstructive parking.

 

[sap_2000]

Isn't it possible in UK to find the owner by checking the license plates?

 

[[2068]]

Isn't it possible in UK to find the owner by checking the license plates?

It's possible, it's but not a slick online process, and the requestor pays £2.50

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/390562/V888X2_241114.pdf

 

[sarabande]

the Travelift team haven't done a proper risk assessment on an obstruction. The car entails delicate manoeuvres which would otherwise not have to take place. The fact that they CAN dodge the lift round the car is not relevant.

Whether the yard should have blocked off access more securely is another matter.

And I bet there is a bloody great notice in the yard saying that you park your car here at your own risk.

 

[itchenseadog]

Most MDL yatds have skates available, though if memory serves me correct, Mercury lifting is operated by HYS.
Reminds me when that happened in our yard at Warsash, we usd the crane to moove the car and place it on top of a pile of sleepers. Unfortunately for the owner, be came back on a Friday night when the crane gang had gone home for the weekend. H & S would prevent that these days!

 

[mlines]

Most cars can be easily pushed backwards if they have rear drum brakes as the shoes are less effective in the reverse direction.

 

[mm42]

Trolley jack under rear end, lift it up, wheel car around to your hearts content now the handbrake locked rear wheels are off the deck.

 

[Jurgen]

Car had been there for around 2 weeks according to the OP, WTF!

 

[Lloydroberts]

How inconsiderate, fancy parking a car in a space that is obviously meant for boats.
Whatever next, boats in car parking spaces?

 

[carannah]

Most cars can be easily pushed backwards if they have rear drum brakes as the shoes are less effective in the reverse direction.

????
If that was the case cars would roll away backwards down hills