Marking annoying rocks

[Shuggy]

Let’s pretend I’ve got loads of time and money plus some engineering skills. I have decided that there are several rocks in my sailing area that need navigation marks. Some obvious ones... Claysie’s rock in Cuan Sound; the dirty pink menace at the entrance to Tinker’s Hole; Hutcheson Rock on the way north from the Dorus Mhor. Lots of others probly. Two things: (1) Is it hard to attach perches to rocks? Concrete or stainless steel anchors? Rebar drilled into rock and then concrete all around? (2) If I just crack on with it will someone prosecute me? Do I need to ask/tell someone important like HMQ E2?

Anyone fancy some amusing japes involving a DeWalt and and a barge?

 

[Robert Wilson]

Good on yer!
I think there's one in the middle of The Sound of Mull, not far off Tobermory. In 2010, on my first voyage in Khamsin, my echo sounder suddenly went from 20+metres to 1m.
If you find it I suggest the following name - "Bobbie's Brown Breeks" and atop the perch a loo-roll holder!

 

[Sgeir]

Good idea, and sounds like a bit of constructive fun. Although Crown Estate Scotland would probably pursue you to the ends of the earth to ensure that your perches rents are all paid....

They've even tried to screw money for seabed rental out of local people who have maintained "unofficial" buoyed channels. I have a very low opinion of them.

 

[Shuggy]

Seriously? That’s nuts. Although I guess if you were to put down a mooring that looked like a red can they might get paranoid and think you were trying to pass off a mooring as an aid to navigation!

Donald - are you going to join my engineering club and mark Claysie’s rock?

 

[Resolution]

Wouldn't it be more fun just to blow them up?

 

[Robert Wilson]

Good lateral thinking, Peter

 

[Shuggy]

Do you get into trouble for that or do we just mix up fertiliser and diesel and crack on?

 

[bbg]

Let’s pretend I’ve got loads of time and money plus some engineering skills. I have decided that there are several rocks in my sailing area that need navigation marks.

If you've got that much time and money, sail somewhere else!

But with your concerns, don't go to Sweden.

 

[Sgeir]

Donald - are you going to join my engineering club and mark Claysie’s rock?

Errmm, which one?

 

[Sgeir]

Wouldn't it be more fun just to blow them up?

Trouble is that most of the west coast rocks where that was attempted are still there, albeit with a bit more rubble scattered nearby. I'd imagine though that it would be effective in gathering a few fish for the bucket.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Can someone put a lighthouse on lol' a' Chàirn Deirg if they've got a few bob spare? It's an annoying rock but it would be a great name for a lighthouse.

 

[mainsail1]

Great Idea. I am up for it. Perhaps a scaffold pole and a bit of a concrete base would be good enough?
Add the one in the middle of Loch Sween?

 

[JumbleDuck]

The trouble with doing this is that you can end up with a situation like at the Burnt Isles, where a rock which was an occasional hazard to the deepest racers became a perch which is a hazard to everyone all the time.

Blow the bastards up, I say.

 

[tim_ber]

Paint 'em.

 

[zoidberg]

.....an occasional hazard to the deepest racers became a perch which is a hazard to everyone all the time. Blow the bastards up, I say.

Any particular bastards? Deepest racers, p'rhaps? Or chust bastards in general....?

 

[JohnGC]

Virtual AIS? Any base stations nearby?

John

 

[zoidberg]

Do you get into trouble for that or do we just mix up fertiliser and diesel and crack on?

I can chust see the shopping trip at Tobe's 'Corner Shop'...... "That's a couple o' pund of square sausages, a bag o' tatties, some o' they carrots, a couple o' six-pack o' Tennants lager, brown sauce, half-a-dozen mince pies, some matches, some caundles, and a couple o' big bags of yon Co-op Mixture....."

"Sounds like ye'r gaun fur a barbecue or summat. Will ye no be wantin' some balaclavas an' a'....chust fur the midges, of course!"

 

[JumbleDuck]

Any particular bastards? Deepest racers, p'rhaps? Or chust bastards in general....?

I was thinking of the rocks, but your idea has great merit.

 

[claymore]

Seriously? That’s nuts. Although I guess if you were to put down a mooring that looked like a red can they might get paranoid and think you were trying to pass off a mooring as an aid to navigation!

Donald - are you going to join my engineering club and mark Claysie’s rock?

This was all going so well - "Ah" - thinks I "This could get interesting". Then I find you teaming up with the BFG to take the rise out of my good self. Well - you've had your last bit of technical lextrick advice fae ma guid sel. Harrumphh

 

[claymore]

Any particular bastards? Deepest racers, p'rhaps? Or chust bastards in general....?

Shuggingtons and Sgeir fer stairters