KHM ignoring danger to boats

[Elessar]

I spotted this on the foreshore at Porchester in 1st May.

I rang KHM who seemed disinterested saying it might be the councils problem if it was above the high water mark. I asked which high tide HWS or HAT and he didn’t really know.

So I emailed KHM with a photo, a location and stating I thought it would float off at the next spring HW.

They ignored my email and this thing is now floating around the harbour. It has been seen in the beach at port solent and someone I know saw it at wicor.

Shame on KHM. I hope a leisure boater doesn’t hit it. If it gets out to sea and it’s hit at speed it wouldn’t be a good outcome.

 

[petem]

Shameful Mark.

What do you think it came off?

 

[dpb]

Looks like a navy mat of some sort. We used them to protect barge decks from the tracks of cranes and excavators etc. They float very low in the water.

 

[Wansworth]

Obviously ajobsworth ,why do they take the jobbetterservedshelf filling in Tescos

 

[Scubadoo]

Thanks for trying Elesser, I find this very disappointing considering the risk particularly if it ends up in the Solent slightly submerged, can you imagine the damage at 20knots. It would seem these people just can't be bothered to take action.

 

[Never Grumble]

It's part of a timber cat, probably years old ... they use to use them in the dockyard as fenders between the warships and jetty. They were built three timber baulks high and in the middle was placed large pieces of cork. Making them was a horrible job moving the timber baulks into position, cutting with a massive air driven chainsaw, drilling with a drill several meters long and inserting the tie rods you can see. Making them wasn't much fun and one of the first things I did as a young apprentice 40 something years ago.

 

[Wansworth]

helped break up three of those ,wonderful seasoned pitchpine

 

[LittleSister]

It's part of a timber cat, probably years old ... they use to use them in the dockyard as fenders . . . Making them wasn't much fun and one of the first things I did as a young apprentice 40 something years ago.

So you’re to blame?

 

[Martin_J]

Similar experience in Southampton Water many years ago.

We slowed to a stop heading back to Marchwood. After a bit of cutting, I freed the prop and pulled about 30 foot of fishing net from the water.

Similar type to this picture..


Seemed very slow back to the mooring where I found a further tight football sized clump around the prop.

I called Southampton Harbour Master expecting that I'd be able to drop the discarded net off at their office... no such luck... I said to them that I felt like throwing it back in to where it came from (since I was still on board with it) ... they just couldn't accept it.

Next best plan was to use it as a boat cover to keep the birds off because it was heavy/quality.

It ended up going to the tip in carrier bags over a number of weeks..

(I thought it looked too much like a fishing net to use as a bird scarer!)

I would hope that these days they would have taken it off my hands.

 

[SC35]

A couple of dudes with chainsaws and a flatbed could have neutralised that at minimal expense,
Good move trying to report it, shame nobody picked it up and ran with it.

 

[penfold]

helped break up three of those ,wonderful seasoned pitchpine

exactly; when this sort of thing appears on the tideline I appear with the chainsaw to turn it into firewood(no need for firelighters, it practically lights itself), or if there's a long enough length of sound timber maybe a garden project of some kind. It wallops the chain though.

 

[Bigplumbs]

Could you not have tied it to that sea wall with some old rope

 

[Daydream believer]

, shame nobody picked it up and ran with it.

Who do you think is going to pick that up? B..dy Batman. And if he did he would look a bit stupid running round the town with it over his head. I suppose you think that Robin could follow in the Bat car blowing his horn

 

[Daydream believer]

..

 

[Wansworth]

Luckily it was flat calm.The ship picked up a bloody great lump of rope round the prop.First we filled the forward ballast tank and emptied the aft tanks.This brought the prop within reach.we lowered the ships boat and the skipper equipped with a hacksaw and galley knife hacked at the coil.He freed the prop and the hawser was pulled aboard. And we continued toCharlsetown to load China clay……….on leaving the port the Cape Verde crew took it into their heads to throw the rope back in the sea……

 

[SC35]

Who do you think is going to pick that up? B..dy Batman. And if he did he would look a bit stupid running round the town with it over his head. I suppose you think that Robin could follow in the Bat car blowing his horn

Whoosh.

 

[Never Grumble]

So you’re to blame?

Not at all it was in perfect condition when I last saw it.

 

[SC35]

Not at all it was in perfect condition when I last saw it.

…. in 1982

 

[Never Grumble]

…. in 1982

bit earlier 1980

 

[penfold]

Luckily it was flat calm.The ship picked up a bloody great lump of rope round the prop.First we filled the forward ballast tank and emptied the aft tanks.This brought the prop within reach.we lowered the ships boat and the skipper equipped with a hacksaw and galley knife hacked at the coil.He freed the prop and the hawser was pulled aboard. And we continued toCharlsetown to load China clay……….on leaving the port the Cape Verde crew took it into their heads to throw the rope back in the sea……

I hope you made them dive in and retrieve it.