Problem with my Raymarine Invisibility Cloak

[Leslie frank]

My new invisibility cloak is obviously not switching off correctly. For the fifth time this year some b...y idiot has banged into us. How do I make sure my boat is not invisible in the future? Perhaps painting it daglow? Do you think that the standards of boat handling are at an all time low?

 

[johnalison]

You were obviously in the way, so it must be your fault. Anyway, “It was only an accident”.

 

[wonkywinch]

We're berthed at MDL Mercury Yacht Harbour on the Hamble. There are several schools based at the marina and our boat plus that of our 3 immediate neighbours has been struck at least once over the last year, most of the contact made by school boats.

 

[KevinV]

My new invisibility cloak is obviously not switching off correctly. For the fifth time this year some b...y idiot has banged into us. How do I make sure my boat is not invisible in the future? Perhaps painting it daglow? Do you think that the standards of boat handling are at an all time low?

I think an impenetrable ring of orange ball fenders would be an effective and aesthetically pleasing solution - I'd certainly recommend it if parked anywhere near where I want to go

 

[Mark-1]

impenetrable ring of orange ball fenders

Oerlikon. YKIMS.

 

[wonkywinch]

 

[Leslie frank]

I like it. We are originally from Birmingham and kept the boat at Swanwick. As soon as the locals heard the accent you could see them putting more fenders out... this is the 5th marina collision we have had this year. Getting a bit much!

 

[Buck Turgidson]

My previous neighbouring motorboat made it his goal in life to hit me every time he went out. Despite numerous complaints his behaviour didn't change so eventually the marina moved me.
Frustraiting but the only solution. He made a right mess of my varnished toe rails with his boathook but never once volunteered to fix them!

 

[johnalison]

I have now effectively retired from sailing but, as I never tire from saying, I have never damaged another boat in over fifty years. I regard other people’s property as forbidden territory, an attitude that seems to be increasingly uncommon. Without trying, I can think of eight or nine occasions when we have been damaged, fortunately never seriously, apart from the time a fishing boat nearly pulled our shroud attachment of the deck of an earlier boat when we were moored overnight on our home berth.

Actually I’m not quite telling the truth, now that I remember that there was an occasion when my gear cable parted, from being overtightened by an installer, and I was faced with the choice of bringing my rigging down by running into a Dutch canal bridge or going into someone’s garden. I choose the latter and in the process ran down a child’s dinghy, sinking it but only scratching it a bit.

 

[Stemar]

My new invisibility cloak is obviously not switching off correctly. For the fifth time this year some b...y idiot has banged into us. How do I make sure my boat is not invisible in the future? Perhaps painting it daglow? Do you think that the standards of boat handling are at an all time low?

A biker paramedic I worked with kept threatening to patent blue lights, sirens, Day-Glo jackets and fluorescent Battenburg livery for the bike as an invisibility cloak

 

[Cerebus]

My new invisibility cloak is obviously not switching off correctly. For the fifth time this year some b...y idiot has banged into us. How do I make sure my boat is not invisible in the future? Perhaps painting it daglow? Do you think that the standards of boat handling are at an all time low?

Under what conditions did this banging occur?

Whilst moored (most probable) or whilst sailing (less probable but more frightening).