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[Marmalade]

What's puts me off doing that is the following:
Boats our size are supposed to pick up a mooring buoy on the western side of the marina.
You are then stern-to right next to the Visserskaai - and you have the world and his wife gawping down your cockpit and companionway.
For the sake of some privacy I'm willing to put up with the discomfort of having to clamber over the pulpit when moored bow-to.

agree - the gawping can be unnerving at first but after an hour or so we forget about it and ignore it. We're not much to look at really esp if you get an eyeful in the morning when I've just rolled out of bed - not sure who's worse off - me for being gawped at, or the gawpee who has to put up with that image for the rest of the day!

(the polite thing would be for someone to interject at this point with a murmured "you're being too hard on yourself")

 

[Athene V30]

"you're being too hard on yourself"

As above!!

 

[Gargleblaster]

"you're being too hard on yourself")

I'm concerned about the words 'hard on' in this context. Or have I broken the forum rules?

 

[Supine Being]

The area is fully self cleaning

Whoah! How often does that happen?

I was just about to suggest the avoidance of that corner because the waste fish gets dumped down there from the market above, but maybe there are other reasons too.

 

[sailorman]

Whoah! How often does that happen?

I was just about to suggest the avoidance of that corner because the waste fish gets dumped down there from the market above, but maybe there are other reasons too.

note the lack of pontoons

 

[Supine Being]

note the lack of pontoons

I did!

 

[Sixpence]

The area is fully self cleaning

Caption reads - Sailorman demonstrates power of his new bow thruster

 

[sailorman]

Caption reads - Sailorman demonstrates power of his new bow thruster

Every boat should have one

 

[Koeketiene]

Caption reads - Sailorman demonstrates power of his new bow thruster

Every boat should have one

I love the sound of bow thruster in the morning