Jet Ski *******ing - your thoughts.

[ffiill]

Really its not about jet skis its about "lads".
We get young bikers going past our house on road to Skye doing accelerating wheelies as they welly off up the road going on for a ton despite the 40mph limit.
I remember when I used to windsurf how young lads would delight in carving gybes right on the launch beach just to show off.
Similarly very adept young skiiers who would mogul hop through all the beginners causing mayhem.
As for jet skiis well occasionally they do get their just desert.
I remember in the 1990s reading in the Westmorland Gazette how a jet skiier skiing facing backwards plastered himself into the chain ferry that crossed Windermere!

 

[prv]

Oh dear, I had better tell my crew on the Poole Cruise to keep a low profile then!

And me.

A friend of my parents had a brother with a pair of jet skis, and for several years he brought them to our group camping trips (along with everyone else's dinghies, diving kit, windsurfers, etc etc to share between the families).

We used to use them off Broadhaven beach in the evening, though, after everyone had gone home and the beach was deserted. Nobody there to disturb; we wouldn't have dreamed of buzzing boats or racing through moorings.

Also these were proper jetskis, the kind that sink if you get on them while not moving fast and hence actually require some skill to operate. That's in fact the main reason I look down on a lot of jetski pillocks these days - its too easy

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

"Q" yachts

There's nothing wrong with jetskis that a decent sniper rifle can't fix...

Agreed: could the Jackal be hired, to disable the waterjet, for our amusement? Ideally leave the silly ass alive to swim home.

The solution surely ought to fit the offence, best delivered by stealth. If we can just cram a Pratt & Whitney turbine into a Colvic Watson with modified hull form...we can pursue these noisy berks and scare the carp out of them.

And imagine the wake!

Presumably the noise these waterborne vermin make, would deafen them to the 50-knot approach of a nine-tonne motor-sailor.

I wonder why, after so many lottery-wins, our harbours aren't yet equipped with the heavy-displacement equivalent of a fly-swat, for zapping irritants and generally relieving the frustration of all who must otherwise endure jet-skiers' selfish, mindless high-spirits.

Once encountered, it's extremely difficult to awaken even the remotest sympathy for them, when their japes go wrong.

Don't they know how much we hate them?

 

[Grumpybear]

The Septics sorted this years ago with Sidewinder missiles mounted on Hobie Cats. try googling "ultimate PWC repellent".

 

[Sybarite]

Of course the really worrying thing is what if someone was in a tender when they prat-race through the moorings as in Dylans' video ?

They do that sort of thing quite often, I'm genuinely surprised I haven't heard of any serious incidents caused by these morons; at least they should be followed home and something put in the local water supply to prevent them breeding...

That's an argument for licencing. France generally has speed limits within 300m from the shore, in certain designated areas and in moorings.

Therefore in France as everyone who rides a jetski will have done a test, the problem is perhaps not as pronounced. However they still run at top speed just outside a mooring which is almost as bad.

Those shown in Dylan's clip would definitely be prosecuted if a police boat were in the vicinity.

 

[Greenheart]

The Septics sorted this years ago with Sidewinder missiles mounted on Hobie Cats. try googling "ultimate PWC repellent".

Air-to-air missiles...slick.

Some slight risk of making the jet-skiers look like the victims, though. Be sure we have friends in the High Courts of Justice, first.

How about a water cannon? That way, one could simply be jet-washing one's masthead tricolour. Handy piece of kit, all round:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1T2BepLE-I

 

[Grumpybear]

Air-to-air missiles...slick.

Some slight risk of making the jet-skiers look like the victims, though. Be sure we have friends in the High Courts of Justice, first.

How about a water cannon? That way, one could simply be jet-washing one's masthead tricolour. Handy piece of kit, all round:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1T2BepLE-I

AIMs would be fine if we had the right to bear arms.........

 

[Giblets]

I do believe that plastic bin liners part filled with water have a certain detrimental effect to the progress of jet skis through the water!

 

[HinewaisMan]

We've always found a length of piano wire stretched between 2 yachts works well.

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

I have no problem at all with jetskis or anyone else enjoying being afloat on anything.

+1

 

[Seajet]

Those who say 'live & let live' plainly haven't been victim of these brainless oxygen thieves...

I don't think an AIM-9 would find enough heat signature; a Matra 155 16 shot unguided rocket pod would be just the thing; 'outrun this, sucker ! '

 

[chanelyacht]

So someone's video'd someone else doing something that may or may not have been silly.

Here's another one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxdp8UfqbK8

Bloody yachts, bah bah bah, could have killed someone...

The sea is a shared space. Hardly justifies suggesting murder by decapitation, does it?

The venom on this thread is unbelievable.

 

[oceanfroggie]

I don't like them, but I didn't see anything wrong with that. Noise annoying in a beauty spot, but nobody granted exclusive access to the planet. As to the "cavalry arrived", the RNLI are a voluntary rescue service with zero statutory role in law or colreg enforcement.

Guys'n'gals yes they are annoying, sometimes dangerous, but time to let go and Dstress about it. Not worth getting steamed up about or spoiling the overall good mood generated by wonderful cruising.

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

So someone's video'd someone else doing something that may or may not have been silly.

The reason I posted the link was that the RNLI boat (apparently) told the Jet Ski guy to stop.

I guess there are (at least) two ways to look at that. As a well needed pre-emptive safety measure, or as someone acting as a self appointed marine Police Force.

I posted to see what forumites thought.

 

[Chrusty 1]

The reason I posted the link was that the RNLI boat (apparently) told the Jet Ski guy to stop.

I guess there are (at least) two ways to look at that. As a well needed pre-emptive safety measure, or as someone acting as a self appointed marine Police Force.

I posted to see what forumites thought.

Is it not possible that the RNLI RIB had a harbour official on board?

 

[Seajet]

So someone's video'd someone else doing something that may or may not have been silly.

Here's another one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxdp8UfqbK8

Bloody yachts, bah bah bah, could have killed someone...

The sea is a shared space. Hardly justifies suggesting murder by decapitation, does it?

The venom on this thread is unbelievable.

Chanelyacht,

yes of course everyone is completely serious about murdering the morons...

If your family was in a tender between those moorings you might feel differently.

As it happens I once went out solo in my tender with flares and a torch when a jetski was reported missing in a wide expanse of desolate harbour - naturally the idiot had just gone somewhere else than he'd told the people who for some unfathomable reason cared - maybe he had the car keys !

I've never yet seen - or heard - a PWC being used in a sensible considerate manner; no-one owns the sea, but it's reasonable to think people will act with consideration rather than endangering or upsetting others.

 

[chanelyacht]

T
I posted to see what forumites thought.

Sorry, I took the title of "Jet Ski *******ing - your thoughts." to set the tone...

I don't defend in any way the actions of people who act dangerously - we do get some reports of them, and if there's a LB on exercise nearby we might ask their LOM if he's happy for the crew to have a quiet word, which may have been what happened here.

Or, the video may just show someone enjoying the same freedoms that we all do, but which a vocal minority wish to see banned - whether it's sports in national parks, or 4x4s, or whatever.

Jetskis have their place in the scheme of things - I've been kept awake at night far more by loose halyards than I have by jetskis.

 

[Seajet]

CY,

if you think the behaviour shown in Dylans' video is 'just people enjoying the freedoms we all do' then you should see someone for help !

I take it you and yours don't ever use a tender to get to & from a mooring - or anchorage - or if this lot turned up you'd be overjoyed.

Halliards frapping = nature, and if that bad do as my dad always did, go and tie them up !

2 -stroke at a million revs...we discussed heat seeking missiles earlier, and I can say from experience they're not the tool for the job.

For PWC's and other reasons, I've always thought there's a market for a sound-seeking missile, though a bazooka would probably get the point across...

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

Sorry, I took the title of "Jet Ski *******ing - your thoughts." to set the tone...

Jet Ski Bollocking???

He was on a Jet Ski and, to my eye, he appeared to get a Bollocking.

Doesn't seen entirely wide of the mark.

 

[chanelyacht]

Jet Ski Bollocking???

He was on a Jet Ski and, to my eye, he appeared to get a Bollocking.

Doesn't seen entirely wide of the mark.

Aaah... shame the censor hides what it said!