castaway
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Stopped the night of the 10/11th in Langston Harbour where 10years ago I had once had a mooring.
Planned to pick up one of the bouys in the fairway outside the harbour masters office and pop ashore to the pub,stroll on the beach etc.
First problem ...none of the big yellow bouys have a pick up pendant so somehow one is supposed to get your own mooring line through a 1 inch hole in the swivel on the top of the bouy...anyway tried calling the HM.. no resonse but then saw the harbour patrol buzzing around, so chased him for a while and finally indicated to turn his VHF on.
This done I asked about anchoring as per instructions in Pilot book and was advised to try the north edge of the Langston channel but "watch out for the aggregate ships". Took a look and realised that this anchorage was about a mile from the nearest land so though 'sodit' Ill scoot back the Portsmouth at least I wont be run down in the night by the Donald Redford.
As it turned out on the way back out I noticed that just one of the ECA yellow bouys had a pendant on it so I grabbed it and thought "thats good", It was getting to 20:00 ish and I thought the Jet skiers would soon pack up and go home....
No Bl***dly chance, they were still out there using my boat as a turning point at 22:00 in the dark! Drunken camp followers on the beach et al...Harbour master had long gone home and even earlier on had shown no inclination to enforce the blattently disregarded 10kt speed limit.
What a naff place! All I can say is that at least it gathers many of these jet ski peasants into one area (more or less).
Nick.
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Planned to pick up one of the bouys in the fairway outside the harbour masters office and pop ashore to the pub,stroll on the beach etc.
First problem ...none of the big yellow bouys have a pick up pendant so somehow one is supposed to get your own mooring line through a 1 inch hole in the swivel on the top of the bouy...anyway tried calling the HM.. no resonse but then saw the harbour patrol buzzing around, so chased him for a while and finally indicated to turn his VHF on.
This done I asked about anchoring as per instructions in Pilot book and was advised to try the north edge of the Langston channel but "watch out for the aggregate ships". Took a look and realised that this anchorage was about a mile from the nearest land so though 'sodit' Ill scoot back the Portsmouth at least I wont be run down in the night by the Donald Redford.
As it turned out on the way back out I noticed that just one of the ECA yellow bouys had a pendant on it so I grabbed it and thought "thats good", It was getting to 20:00 ish and I thought the Jet skiers would soon pack up and go home....
No Bl***dly chance, they were still out there using my boat as a turning point at 22:00 in the dark! Drunken camp followers on the beach et al...Harbour master had long gone home and even earlier on had shown no inclination to enforce the blattently disregarded 10kt speed limit.
What a naff place! All I can say is that at least it gathers many of these jet ski peasants into one area (more or less).
Nick.
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.yachtsite.co.uk/fairweather>http://www.yachtsite.co.uk/fairweather</A>
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