My reply was a bit unduly angry, so I guess you did hit a nerve! I appriciate you not biting my head off for that. What you spend each year to moor your boat, is about 1k more than I bought my boat for, although I was lucky and got a bargain. I must admit I am very lucky to have spent my whole life in such a beautiful location. It only takes me about 15 mins to walk to where my boat is moored. I'm also very lucky to have a mooring here that only costs me £30 PA + harbour dues. However, it has taken me most of my life to get one as there is a huge waiting list that gets longer year by year. I learned to sail with my father who had a mooring back in the day when there were far less moorings, far less houses and all the houses were lived in throughout the year - yes I live in one of those places where most of the community has been forced out to make way for second homes, and house prices have become ridiculous. Mooring controls are very tight. You have to be a long term resident of one of five villages (that all have some geographical claim to the river), although on occasion it seems that having vast wealth can almost instantly get you to the top of the waiting list, pushing others like my self back to the bottom. Moorings can not be inherited and even widows have to jump through hoops just to have a slight chance of keeping their late husband's mooring. Plans to install marinas have so far been killed off by local resistance thankfully!Have I hit a nerve?
The boat's fifteen minutes away from my terraced house, and I drive to it in a car recently valued at £450 quid.
It's precisely because I am realistic about the cost of boating that I am ribbing (not insulting) you. You are talking about trivial money, not in terms of the cost of living, but in terms of the cost of boating, and in terms of good manners to the other boater who bought and owns the tackle you have been using.
Thanks for calling the boat huge though I'm as susceptible to flattery as anyone else. Might even buy you a beer if you keep on like that.
No harm meant.
Cheers.
Look on the bright side, 35mm.
Think of all the inadequate people here, who's day you've absolutely made, by allowing them to feel oh-so-superior for the last couple of days.
My reply was a bit unduly angry, so I guess you did hit a nerve! I appriciate you not biting my head off for that. What you spend each year to moor your boat, is about 1k more than I bought my boat for, although I was lucky and got a bargain. I must admit I am very lucky to have spent my whole life in such a beautiful location. It only takes me about 15 mins to walk to where my boat is moored. I'm also very lucky to have a mooring here that only costs me £30 PA + harbour dues. However, it has taken me most of my life to get one as there is a huge waiting list that gets longer year by year. I learned to sail with my father who had a mooring back in the day when there were far less moorings, far less houses and all the houses were lived in throughout the year - yes I live in one of those places where most of the community has been forced out to make way for second homes, and house prices have become ridiculous. Mooring controls are very tight. You have to be a long term resident of one of five villages (that all have some geographical claim to the river), although on occasion it seems that having vast wealth can almost instantly get you to the top of the waiting list, pushing others like my self back to the bottom. Moorings can not be inherited and even widows have to jump through hoops just to have a slight chance of keeping their late husband's mooring. Plans to install marinas have so far been killed off by local resistance thankfully!
It is very easy to grow up in a place like this and dwell on how unlucky you are to have seen it all change for the worse over the years, and completely forget how lucky you are to be here enjoying what is left. So yes, you are completely right. £100 is nothing. However, that was not really what the thread was about. It was more to do with, should the guy have cut the ropes? Is it what I deserved for not getting back to him sooner? Should I still pay his asking price now the ropes are cut? Should I just get him to take his gear away as I am under no obligation to buy it? It's now sorted any way as he snapped my hand off when I offered him £80. Yes you probably think I'm bloody lucky, and all of this was very trivial, and I really can't blame you when you have to pay so much to moor your boat close to where you live. I simply couldn't afford to continue boating if I had to pay that much. I hope you get loads of security for that cost, and no chance of someone cutting your mooring lines!
Do you know this for a fact? Not the case here. Whilst he may have had to remove the tackle (depending on the terms of the mooring lease) it doesn't transfer to the new mooring holder automatically.