Leaving your boat unattended

[DAKA]

I've just read a post on scuttlebutts where a moored yacht was hit twice in a week by visitors
Someone left their boat in Yarmouth where you get 2-3 boats a day rafting outside you and regularly have to fend 4-5 boats off a day in side currents.


I always fender both sides of my boat.
If I left my boat a month in Yarmouth I would expect problems and I would cover my boat in fenders from head to toe !

Now the damaged boat didnt put any fenders out (save his own pontoon side)

However is he right, if he had fenders out could it hinder another boat rolling down the side as the fenders snag ?

 

[deborahann]

I've just read a post on scuttlebutts where a moored yacht was hit twice in a week by visitors
Someone left their boat in Yarmouth where you get 2-3 boats a day rafting outside you and regularly have to fend 4-5 boats off a day in side currents.


I always fender both sides of my boat.
If I left my boat a month in Yarmouth I would expect problems and I would cover my boat in fenders from head to toe !

Now the damaged boat didnt put any fenders out (save his own pontoon side)

However is he right, if he had fenders out could it hinder another boat rolling down the side as the fenders snag ?

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we've been told not to put fenders out by HM at Canarvon for this reason, doubt it matters to our boat if the vistors fenders snag, thats his problem, but bashing our hull from the visiting boat is our problem.

 

[longjohnsilver]

I've just read a post on scuttlebutts where a moored yacht was hit twice in a week by visitors
Someone left their boat in Yarmouth where you get 2-3 boats a day rafting outside you and regularly have to fend 4-5 boats off a day in side currents.


I always fender both sides of my boat.
If I left my boat a month in Yarmouth I would expect problems and I would cover my boat in fenders from head to toe !

Now the damaged boat didnt put any fenders out (save his own pontoon side)

However is he right, if he had fenders out could it hinder another boat rolling down the side as the fenders snag ?

Ah but he was in a residents finger berth with a known boat also resident in the space next to him so no rafting issues.
However I would put fenders both sides just in case.............

 

[DAKA]

I have a RIB berthed at the side of me which only goes out 2-3 times a year and I still put fenders out.

Dedborahann, do you ignore the HM and put them out anyway , pretty sure I would even if he moves them a few days later.

 

[rafiki_]

I have a RIB berthed at the side of me which only goes out 2-3 times a year and I still put fenders out.

Dedborahann, do you ignore the HM and put them out anyway , pretty sure I would even if he moves them a few days later.

Me too!!! The only person worried about your boat is you!!!

 

[ricky_s]

I always put mine out on both sides on my berth. I don't think the guy next to me would hit but when he is away god knows who the marina put there!

 

[deborahann]

being "her in charge of the fenders" fenders out both sides on arrival is best, boats arrive, go round and round and round, are they going to raft up or not, no, not till you are in the pub or the loo. hlb of course is occupied elsewhere asleep.

Its not just the cost of sorting the damage, £4000 for our last davit bashed up episode, its the nightmare of getting someone to actually do it. The HM at Canarvon is not to be messed with, he says no fenders, then for once thats it.

 

[DAKA]

Plant a few dizzy Lizzies in a couple of tyres and hang them over the sides, tell him they are hanging baskets
If your not sure which is the best type of compost to use Haydn knows a good forum to ask

 

[deborahann]

Plant a few dizzy Lizzies in a couple of tyres and hang them over the sides, tell him they are hanging baskets
If your not sure which is the best type of compost to use Haydn knows a good forum to ask

funny you should say this, once hlb's boat is sold I would like a barge again, you have your own space on the canal bank, and everyone hates anyone rafting up. There's none of this well its just the accepted way, its get lost, no fenders out cos you ain't arriving here.