Mooring lines cut - what's your take?

rivonia said:
Having read all the posts and the op's. I have thought long and hard about this. My view is if I was in your position I would make him an offer, say £85.00 and say sorry for delay in getting back to him.

I would think that you are quite concerned as if he did do the deed then he may do it again. Settle it ASAP and then you will sleep easy.

Good luck

Peter
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Thanks Peter. I'm thinking along the same sort of lines.
 
35mm said:
Not true. I was prepared to pay something. At first I thought it was a bit steep and said I'd go and look at the gear and work something out. I priced up replacement gear. He was maybe making £20 pounds out of me, but I would have at least haggled. I didn't get back to him in the time frame anticipated because other things distracted me. Personal things and then the whole end of season thing.

He didn't take what was his. He could have done, but instead he just cut some ropes anonymously.
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you have acquired a cheap mooring, do the right thing & pay the man Undered squids
 
prv said:
Indeed. In case not everyone spotted it, the OP hasn't been delaying a few days or a week here, but "a couple of months". In my opinion that's an unreasonable time to decide whether or not to take up an offer.

Yes, perhaps the owner should have phoned up to chase - although it appears he didn't have the OP's phone number! He may have considered it "not my job" to put himself out tracking down and contacting someone who apparently couldn't be bothered to solve the problem themselves. He may even have been uncomfortable phoning up effectively to demand money; some people find any kind of confrontation like that awkward, and will make the point indirectly instead - that's why http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ exists :)

Pete
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A couple of months isn't a big deal around here. He didn't make the point directly. He made it anonymously by cutting ropes. The only point he has made is that he's not a decent person to do business with, has no patience and no wit to chase things up properly. Yes I should have got back in touch sooner, but for one reason or another I didn't. That doesn't warrant going straight to the end game, and anonymously vandalising the tackle he wants to sell me does it? I now have half a mind just to tell him to remove his tackle from my mooring and he'll get nothing for it! Diplomacy is surely the best policy when trying to sell something?
 
Choice of oil ?

I am about to do an oil change on a 1GM10 after its first 45 hours ,when new I used Castrol C R B TURBO SAE 15W-40 (heavy duty diesel oil) Temperature 20c to 30c here yanmar recommends 40grade which was hard to get last time,would going with what I have enough of ie the same SAE 15w-40 API CH 4/SJ be in order.
would be nice to hear from the forum ,Thanks!!
 
Hi Bajo,
You've posted on the end of a long thread about a mooring dispute.
Maybe a moderator will spot this and move your entry to Practical Boat Owner reader to reader section, as a new Thread.
Best of Luck,
 
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bajo said:
I am about to do an oil change on a 1GM10 after its first 45 hours ,when new I used Castrol C R B TURBO SAE 15W-40 (heavy duty diesel oil) Temperature 20c to 30c here yanmar recommends 40grade which was hard to get last time,would going with what I have enough of ie the same SAE 15w-40 API CH 4/SJ be in order.
would be nice to hear from the forum ,Thanks!!
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Either you've posted in the wrong thread, or your trying to use diversion tactics to snap me out of my bad mood! ;)
 
Yes I hear you. But I have lived here all my life, and it's taken me all that time to get a mooring. Huge waiting list. I appreciate I'm lucky, but I don't appreciate having the mooring cut by someone who doesn't live here and who could have just talked to me! I'm probably just sounding like a winging local now...
 
35mm said:
A couple of months isn't a big deal around here. He didn't make the point directly. He made it anonymously by cutting ropes. The only point he has made is that he's not a decent person to do business with, has no patiencOe and no wit to chase things up properly. Yes I should have got back in touch sooner, but for one reason or another I didn't. That doesn't warrant going straight to the end game, and anonymously vandalising the tackle he wants to sell me does it? I now have half a mind just to tell him to remove his tackle from my mooring and he'll get nothing for it! Diplomacy is surely the best policy when trying to sell something?
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I think holding out for two months over a hundred quid is taking the piss a bit. Not sure why you're quoting his vernacular either. It's absolutely not his duty to chase you while you're using his gear. Just pay the fella.
 
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35mm said:
Yes I hear you. But I have lived here all my life, and it's taken me all that time to get a mooring. Huge waiting list. I appreciate I'm lucky, but I don't appreciate having the mooring cut by someone who doesn't live here and who could have just talked to me! I'm probably just sounding like a winging local now...
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#29 +1 pay the man, offer to take him sailing, do the "right thing"
 
FFS if you had made as much effort to contact the guy as you have moaning on here you would have sorted its out! In your own words he was making £20 and you are getting a mooring that appeared to be as valuable as rocking horse do. :confused:
 
Whats Your Take? Try This.

You could ............
...... just go round to his house and chib him. If he has a dog, chib the dog as well. You will feel better for it. Just before you leave snarl menacingly that you will burn his house down if he touches your mooring again; kick him hard when he is down to ram the point home. Job done, mooring secured, everyone knows where they stand ...........

.......... or you could just pay the £100 and be done with it.

You never know, he might be tooling up right now to teach you a lesson to pay your debts.

Hang on, my mothers calling .............................. apparently I have not taken my tea time pills - oops!

You know it makes sense. ;)
 
So let's get this straight.

He opened with a bid of £100 to sell you his gear which you said you'd think about and then didn't and then he took his buoy 2 months later.

What are you arguing about?

If you can buy and fit your own gear for less than £100 then do it. (if you have the time, inclination to be messing about in freezing cold muddy water in November/ December.

If you can't or if you have better ways of spending your time hen negotiate a bit and pay him a Figure somewhere n the middle.
 
BlowingOldBoots said:
You could ............
...... just go round to his house and chib him. If he has a dog, chib the dog as well. You will feel better for it. Just before you leave snarl menacingly that you will burn his house down if he touches your mooring again; kick him hard when he is down to ram the point home. Job done, mooring secured, everyone knows where they stand ...........
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+1


I take the view that the mooring was being paid for by the new owner and that the previous owner was negligent in not removing his tackle when he removed his boat. I sense a bit of sour grapes by the original owner who sadly may no longer be able to afford his boat and the mooring. I am continually surprised by the insistence of contributors on here to tell others to pay up and get over it, life's too short, etc. when someone feels they have been diddled.
Maybe it's too early in the thread, but nobody has lambasted 35mm for trusting his boat to someone else's tackle.
 
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