Talbot
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Have had this, and my response - welcome, hope you had a good trip. can I help you rig shore lines. When you are finished, come and have a beer.
"No mooring alongside"
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Have had this, and my response - welcome, hope you had a good trip. can I help you rig shore lines. When you are finished, come and have a beer.
DJE
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Seen that several times and never understood it.
Two boats in company had both moored to the pontoon when we arrived in company with another boat. The pontoon hoggers weren't keen to be rafted on but there was nowhere else to go so we rafted one of our boats to each of theirs. They then had to put up with one or the other of our crews crossing both their boats to visit the other boat in our party. If you're travelling together why not raft up on arrival and leave some pontoon free for others?
DJE
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Agreed - but note the circumstances: " on a beautiful Sunday afternoon whilst we were in the cockpit with guests enjoying pre-dinner drinks. Said knob(s) then insisted on running engine for an hour to heat water for showers"
prv
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Guess it depends whether you're expecting it to be busy enough for rafting. If you arrive and the place is deserted, why not tie up separately?
However, in the situation you describe, I think I would move alongside my mate once it became clear that some kind of rafting was going to be required.
Pete
Fire99
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pmyatt
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Happened in Lymington some years ago; inside boat skipper simply cast of the outside boat's mooring lines; when owner of outside boat started screaming at him he said " so sorry - thought you were leaving . . . " outside boat moved to mooring buoy in the river.
Woodlouse
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Generally speaking if a yacht has hot water and showers, then it also has the means to connect to shorepower, which is a far better way to heat the water, and charge the batteries than running the engine whilst stationary. So it is a bit rude, and ignorant too.
l'escargot
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I don't have an immersion heater in my calorifier and I go places that don't have electricity to the pontoons. If I am staying a few days I will run the engine for an hour to put some charge in the battery and to heat some water, although I tend to do mine mid morning which seems a reasonable time when there are comings and goings. I don't consider it to be either rude or ignorant...
prv
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Plenty of places - particularly ones where you might raft up - don't have electricity laid on.
Pete
lw395
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It's also a rubbish way of heating water.
A diesel will generate a lot more hot water motoring the last 15 minutes of the trip than idling for an hour.
So I see it as rude, unnecessary and a failure to think ahead.
If you are moored up for a few days, most people run their engines mid morning, when a lot of people are ashore.
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Agreed. I fitted an Eberspacher Hydronic to heat water (with a silencer on the exhaust) and also, as a by-product, to provide heating in the saloon and heads. We can have as much hot water as we need without disturbing anyone. We have an Eberspacher hot air heater which we use for heating when we don't need/want hot water and have an immersion heater for when on 240v. (My wife doesn't do cold showers!)
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Giblets
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We used to take great delight in that on the old Poole Town Quay. On one particular occasion we came alongside a particularly officious git who started on the "leaving at 5" routine. "Fair enough" said we and trotted off into the town. Needless to say they were all a-kip when we got back.
At 4:30am we all arose and donned full oilies as it was raining. We then started our engine, rigged a long line back to the quay and stationed a man on the quay at each of his line attachment points. Our skipper then tapped gently on his coach roof and was met by a very bleary eyed owner still in his jim-jams who said that they had decided not to go after all. Our skip, being a bit of a wag, said "We have deliberately got up to help you in leaving so you are leaving NOW!", with which he shouted to the shore men "Right lads, let him go!" The panic & scrambling from the miscreant was a joy to behold, sadly before the days of mobile phones & video cameras. Give the chap his due, he did leave just after five only to tie up alongside another boat further down the quay!
Iain C
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Bit of a thread drift here chaps...I was specifically talking about no rafting on a mooring buoy when some self righteous person would rather see you go elsewhere, triple up, or anchor rather than double up against him.
Anyway, whilst we're on normal rafting it really does irk me when when people decide to miss out my fairleads and use their 8mm retired from racing ex spinnaker vectran dyneema racing cat-gut straight over my gelcoat at 400lbs of tension...
Anyway, whilst we're on normal rafting it really does irk me when when people decide to miss out my fairleads and use their 8mm retired from racing ex spinnaker vectran dyneema racing cat-gut straight over my gelcoat at 400lbs of tension...
Seajet
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IainC,
in that situation, I'd either suggest they re-lead it through the fairlead, or change it myself...
in that situation, I'd either suggest they re-lead it through the fairlead, or change it myself...
