Mooring etiquette...what should I have done in this situation?

penfold said:
Herman is too lazy to carry his anchor from the front of his boat to the back and not smart enough to lay out slack and use a line with a rolling hitch on the chain to allow a bow-in moor, so he should be allowed to trample over James' deck?
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I am in agreement with this. I usually am accommodating to fellow cruisers but here there is a reasonable solution, the bow in moor. I would not mind people crossing in front of the mast as per the norm in a raft up but trampling through the cockpit - nup.
 
Comrade Red said:
Be nice - they made a mistake. As another poster said, you may need their help someday.

(sheesh no wonder brits have a poor reputation)
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They made a mistake...no shame in that...but one which it was perfectly within their means to overcome. Why should they expect another party of whatever nationality to overcome it for them? Isn't self-reliance one of the bottom lines of sailing? And if the wind had got up, who wants someone else's stern sheering about alongside? It's simply not a safe way of doing things.

That they were on a Rassy is irrelevant. I don't think boat-envy played any part in the OP's behaviour.
 
I'm with the OP on this, I would have said no too. They didn't make a mistake, they simply discovered that the quay is not deep enough for them, so either they go somewhere else or they accept that they can't get off. The only exception I'd make is if there was bad weather approaching and there was nowhere else for them to go. Then of course I'd say yes.
 
Tony Cross said:
I'm with the OP on this, I would have said no too. They didn't make a mistake, they simply discovered that the quay is not deep enough for them, so either they go somewhere else or they accept that they can't get off. The only exception I'd make is if there was bad weather approaching and there was nowhere else for them to go. Then of course I'd say yes.
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I'd take a different view, as I suggested in post #22. If bad weather were approaching, boat security trumps crew convenience every time. No way would I want their stern next to my midships. But in the eventuality you describe (which evidently was not the case in this instance), I'd certainly go the extra yard to help them get secure. But if they still wanted to park half-off, then sod 'em.
 
jamesmar said:
I did suggest this to them,but they said that they did not have a stern anchor, which I thought was a bit odd ,
No dinghy...no kedge.
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What sort of moron goes cruising in the med without a stern anchor? Or have lazy lines become so prevalent since I was last there that they can get away with it? Obviously not, or he wouldn't have this problem. I assume it's his own boat, as I can't imagine a charter company running Hallberg Rassys (apart from this point, the make of boat is irrelevant), so it's a problem entirely of his own making. But he could solve it by bringing the bow anchor (I assume he has one of those?) around to the stern - or he could even lay it over the bow as normal and then turn around and only have to shift the chain aft.

Pete
 
prv said:
What sort of moron goes cruising in the med without a stern anchor? Or have lazy lines become so prevalent since I was last there that they can get away with it? Obviously not, or he wouldn't have this problem. I assume it's his own boat, as I can't imagine a charter company running Hallberg Rassys (apart from this point, the make of boat is irrelevant), so it's a problem entirely of his own making. But he could solve it by bringing the bow anchor (I assume he has one of those?) around to the stern - or he could even lay it over the bow as normal and then turn around and only have to shift the chain aft.

Pete
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stolen boat???
 
Thanks for all the replies.it would seem that my response was sensible,particularly as this orning,a dinghy materialised from somewhere and conveyed them shorewards.
I will always go out of my way to help someone out,but I feel that in this instance they were at it.

Happy days...now in Lipsi.
 
Rafting when a quay is full is one thing, I have no problem with it. But using you as a gangplank because they can't reach the shore is taking the Michael. They would be walking along the entire length of your boat each time, on our boat it would give us no privacy whatsoever and would disturb anything we were doing in the cockpit.

As for saying they're not carrying a dinghy and then one materialising when they didn't have an alternative, I think I'd be sharing a word or two with them if they'd been giving us dirty looks. Sounds like they would rather inconvenience you than inflate the dinghy. Lazy buggers.
 
Us Brits certainly do not have a bad reputation, quite the opposite and that is what they were trying to exploit.
Allow them ashore then after they were out of sight, cast off and moor in the next bay.

Oh how the devious mind works.
 
macd said:
Don't suppose you have any witnesses to their saying they don't have a tender, Jamesmar? If you have, they might struggle to make a case if you nicked it...:rolleyes:
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As I said,we have moved on to Lipsi today,but an interesting suggestion nonetheless!
We are at this momentbsitting on the terrace at the bakery watching a musical performance byba group from Athens.
They are as tuneful as a chantie, as my old grandpappy would say.
 
macd,Children may be reading this...his "stern next to my midships"...."sod 'em".....Why not just tell them to bgegru off!!
macd said:
I'd take a different view, as I suggested in post #22. If bad weather were approaching, boat security trumps crew convenience every time. No way would I want their stern next to my midships. But in the eventuality you describe (which evidently was not the case in this instance), I'd certainly go the extra yard to help them get secure. But if they still wanted to park half-off, then sod 'em.
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parsifal said:
... and posting uncomplimentary remarks about the beastly British on some German yachting forum. :)
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Think yourself lucky they weren't Austrians!

We are currently suffering rather close espagnioles who have decided to anchor in what was already the smallest gap between any two yachts in the anchorage.

I have been told that it is done that way in Los Rias!
 
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Mad Pad said:
macd,Children may be reading this...his "stern next to my midships"...."sod 'em".....Why not just tell them to bgegru off!!
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Oops. That was one entendre I hadn't noticed. For some reason which escapes me, it puts me in mind of Frankie Howerd, so I'll just say "Titter ye not".
I wonder how the old poof would have dealt with Jamesmar's Germans (to keep it ever-so-slightly on-thread). Might have been fun watching.

P.S. Going even more wildly off-topic, Frankie Howerd put me in mind of Tommy Copper and, just like that, I found this gem on Wiki:
...he was acknowledged as the tightest man in show business, with a pathological dread of reaching into his pocket." One of Cooper's stunts was to pay the exact taxi fare and when leaving the cab to slip something into the taxi driver's pocket saying, "Have a drink on me." That something would turn out to be a tea bag.
 
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