QR Code on a mooring buoy

[NormanS]

Could always try -- "F off , back soon" !!
Otherwise some bright spark will dump a boat on it for a year, thinking it was an abandoned mooring, wearing out the chain , shackles & swivels etc & not move when you do come back

And there was me thinking that Essex was a lovely place.

 

[[70521]]

Will it work when covered in bird cr^p?

 

[dslittle]

The point about a URL rather than the QR code is well made. However so many people (but not me I admit) have smart phones that a machine readable url seems sensible. Edit: it's not to the top level of a website btw, but to hidden page which you can't link to from index.htm. Hence typing in the rather long url might be tedious or error prone.

First of all, I think that you are being very generous in accepting that others will use your buoy and thank you for that...

I do have a smartphone and I can read QR Codes BUT the last thing that I will ever do with my phone is have it anywhere near the water!!!

Obviously, the easiest way to contact an owner would be by phone and then by their website. It is a great idea to populate the website with the info you state but that does require you to keep it updated. A phone call could ascertain the info easier (if you don't mind being bothered...)

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I agree with those who suggest a URL rather than a QR code; I do have a smart phone, but rarely if ever use QR codes - scanning something I can't read that can have effects on my phone is a security risk too far. In fact, I don't even have a QR scanner on my phone!

 

[Daydream believer]

And there was me thinking that Essex was a lovely place.

Full of a...s that will dump carp boats on your mooring when you turn your back & not return. Never let someone who "needs a mooring for a few days" have one as they will carp all over you. This has happened time & time again on our moorings & I suspect this happens everywhere

 

[NormanS]

Full of a...s that will dump carp boats on your mooring when you turn your back & not return. Never let someone who "needs a mooring for a few days" have one as they will carp all over you. This has happened time & time again on our moorings & I suspect this happens everywhere

Your suspicions are unfounded, as far as "our" Loch is concerned.

 

[jdc]

First of all, I think that you are being very generous in accepting that others will use your buoy and thank you for that...

I do have a smartphone and I can read QR Codes BUT the last thing that I will ever do with my phone is have it anywhere near the water!!!

Obviously, the easiest way to contact an owner would be by phone and then by their website. It is a great idea to populate the website with the info you state but that does require you to keep it updated. A phone call could ascertain the info easier (if you don't mind being bothered...)

That's very kind of you, but I don't mind admitting that it's not 100% altruistic: we will be away from that mooring for two or three seasons (the boat is currently in Brazil, but the mooring is in Scotland). Hence there is some danger, if it's never used, of it looking abandoned, or 'inviting' the light-fingered to 'borrow' bits of its hardware or for a squatter to move in.

I don't want to leave a note as that would itself need updating and besides I'm not there whereas the web page can be updated from anywhere in the world. It's my reason not to put the info itself into the QR code but only the URL. A phone number has the issue that I'm almost certainly offshore without coverage, or where it's v expensive to receive calls or in a different time zone and/or it's the middle of the night.

I have to admit that I don't entirely see eye to eye with those who won't use a phone from the foredeck but are prepared to call a number written on a buoy: will they really write it on a scrap of paper and then transcribe to the phone and call only once back in the safety of the cabin? I wouldn't, I'd stand on the foredeck and type the number in directly. But on the other hand the reason I no longer have a smart phone is that it fell from my breast pocket into 6m of water. Being in that industry I'm maybe a bit cavalier with technology.

Whatever, there seems a consensus from potential users that a QR code is unnecessary - oh well, it only cost a fiver getting it printed.

 

[Minchsailor]

This sounds to me like a solution looking for a problem.

Write on the buoy: 'Max 6 tons, 30ft'. or whatever.

 

[LadyInBed]

I had to look up "QR code" to find out what on earth it is!

Now i know what those funny little square patterns you see are all about but I am sure my phone is not able to read them ... it makes phone calls , if I am lucky .... !

references to to web sites also useless as far as i am concerned. The best I could do would be to look them up when I get home again.

A brief written message would be useful.

I thought it might be a Radio Q code that I didn't know about :numbness: