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It’s lively, useful and occasionally just a bit saucy. They’re the ybw forums – the biggest in Europe- and we are keen to encourage our users’ urge to communicate.
With that in mind, each month the most outstanding and entertaining entry – as judged by ybw’s forum moderators - will win a Ray106e state-of-the-art hand-held VHF. For October, the winner was Graham Wignall’s ‘Was this legal?.’ It read…
‘Ran in to a friend at the weekend, who tells me he overnighted in Keyhaven on his own anchor. Next morning, he was boarded without warning by a man from the council, demanding a fiver. Told him to sod off, man from council said he'd better leave Keyhaven, and departed.
Friend went ashore in another friend's tender, and then spotted a police cutter circling his yacht from the top of Hurst castle. Cutter boarded his yacht and removed his tender, then handed it over to the man from the council.
Phone call to the police caused some consternation, followed by suggestion (after some while) that if he went to the man from the council and paid up, he could have his tender back. Friend suggested that as the police were accessories to the theft of his tender, maybe it should be returned to his yacht, and he'd pay the money.
Is this stuff allowed to happen?’
The whole thread can be seen at…
http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/new/forums/showthreaded.pl?Board=ym&Number=162321
Graham, we’ll contact you soon. In the meantime, keep posting!
With that in mind, each month the most outstanding and entertaining entry – as judged by ybw’s forum moderators - will win a Ray106e state-of-the-art hand-held VHF. For October, the winner was Graham Wignall’s ‘Was this legal?.’ It read…
‘Ran in to a friend at the weekend, who tells me he overnighted in Keyhaven on his own anchor. Next morning, he was boarded without warning by a man from the council, demanding a fiver. Told him to sod off, man from council said he'd better leave Keyhaven, and departed.
Friend went ashore in another friend's tender, and then spotted a police cutter circling his yacht from the top of Hurst castle. Cutter boarded his yacht and removed his tender, then handed it over to the man from the council.
Phone call to the police caused some consternation, followed by suggestion (after some while) that if he went to the man from the council and paid up, he could have his tender back. Friend suggested that as the police were accessories to the theft of his tender, maybe it should be returned to his yacht, and he'd pay the money.
Is this stuff allowed to happen?’
The whole thread can be seen at…
http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/new/forums/showthreaded.pl?Board=ym&Number=162321
Graham, we’ll contact you soon. In the meantime, keep posting!
