Nearly rammed by a raggie

Best one we ever had when at the fuel berth........

We'd been holding station as a yacht filled up, there was a spring ebb tide at port hamble and as the yacht went to leave, the tide pushed the yacht in to the mobo in front of him. In fairness both parties tried their hardest to stop any damage, no raised voices and eventually the yacht was on his way...... It took a while and could have been very nasty.

I went in to the space on the fuel berth that he had left and started to fill. The mobo in front of me left and was replaced by a beautiful Nimbus. After we had filled and mindful of us not having much room front and back, not having a bow thruster and also what had just happened with the yacht, I took what must of been an extra minute to reverse against a spring so my bow was fully out and there was no chance of hitting said Nimbus. I must say I was quite proud of how me and the wife had handled the strong tide and tight space........

As we glided past the cockpit of the Nimbus I got a sarcastic salute off the skipper and he shouted 'nothing like taking your time'...... My wife looked at me open mouthed!! I'm sure he'd rather we had gone 30 seconds quicker but took most of his guardrail and gel coat with us??

Hey ho.......
 
Most of these anecdotes speak to the stress that many boaters feel. Too much to do in not enough time and the underlying threat of things that are outside of our control going badly wrong. You get the same atmosphere around airports and on planes, or on the M25 on a Friday evening, and it can turn otherwise pleasant people nasty.

"Hey ho" is right, hey ho is pretty much all we have to deal with it!
 
paultallett said:
Best one we ever had when at the fuel berth........

We'd been holding station as a yacht filled up, there was a spring ebb tide at port hamble and as the yacht went to leave, the tide pushed the yacht in to the mobo in front of him. In fairness both parties tried their hardest to stop any damage, no raised voices and eventually the yacht was on his way...... It took a while and could have been very nasty.

I went in to the space on the fuel berth that he had left and started to fill. The mobo in front of me left and was replaced by a beautiful Nimbus. After we had filled and mindful of us not having much room front and back, not having a bow thruster and also what had just happened with the yacht, I took what must of been an extra minute to reverse against a spring so my bow was fully out and there was no chance of hitting said Nimbus. I must say I was quite proud of how me and the wife had handled the strong tide and tight space........

As we glided past the cockpit of the Nimbus I got a sarcastic salute off the skipper and he shouted 'nothing like taking your time'...... My wife looked at me open mouthed!! I'm sure he'd rather we had gone 30 seconds quicker but took most of his guardrail and gel coat with us??

Hey ho.......
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I am with you Paul, take your time we are not in rush
 
Was on a civvi course as a refresher and they were talking about the stress levels whilst boating, helming skippering darkness close manoeuvring I just smiled and kept stum until they had all finished bragging about their extreme stress they had all been under.

Then told them, "yep all of that, and whilst people are shooting at you"

Could have heard a pin drop
 
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