Scillypete
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Yet another misjudgement made at the quay in St Mary's
Rafting and big tides
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Searush
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Thank the lord it fell outwards & not inwards. That will refloat unharmed. Different story if it had fallen on the little boats inside of it.
savageseadog
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Won't be long before all our mistakes will be videod from all angles and put on here
paulburton44
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Surely it wasn't trying to moor there !!!!!
thedoc
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Was he rafted then? good job someone released the lines.
I have not done this yet but give me time....
I have not done this yet but give me time....
SAWDOC
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Why did he not tie against the harhour wall?
Searush
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I suppose it is possible he ran aground before reaching the trot and may have been heading for the wall. Tieing to such a small twin keeler in a drying harbour would be a disaster waiting to happen.
Scillypete
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He was rafted and was intending to leave but left it a tad late.
These are the only two berths for visitors on this quay hence the rafting.
These are the only two berths for visitors on this quay hence the rafting.
Pete7
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Can't see what the problem is. He found an empty spot in the harbour away from the main central area and parked his boat so it wouldn't interfere with anyone else along side the quay who might want to leave earlier than he floats. You see enough kids parking there bikes by just laying them down on the side, well he did the same only with a rather expensive yacht.
Of course if he had bought a propper yacht with two keels he could have had a cup of tea whilst waiting for the tide.........
Pete
Of course if he had bought a propper yacht with two keels he could have had a cup of tea whilst waiting for the tide.........
Pete
NDG
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We have done this, on a mooring in Isles Chausey 2 years ago. The range was about 11 metres and we reckoned that we would just about float at low water, as did the guy next to us. Unfortunately we must have made a small error as we dried out to a similar angle as in the photo - across the next door boat, who was across the boat next to him. No damage done apart from a bent guard rail. Luckily the rigging didn't get tangled, as we all fel the same direction. We were in our contessa 32, which is coincidentally what the next door boat was, too.
It made for an interesting night. Had a good laugh about it the next morning!
If you are trying to cut the depth a bit fine, a small (say 10%) error in the secondary port calculation when the range is 11 metres can leave you over a metre out at LW, which is what happened to us, whereas a similar error when the range is 3-4 metres has less far-reaching consequences....
It made for an interesting night. Had a good laugh about it the next morning!
If you are trying to cut the depth a bit fine, a small (say 10%) error in the secondary port calculation when the range is 11 metres can leave you over a metre out at LW, which is what happened to us, whereas a similar error when the range is 3-4 metres has less far-reaching consequences....
Koeketiene
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ianat182
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Perfect position for cleaning the bottom , quite deliberate I'm sure! Clean looking sand
There but for the grace..... etc,etc.!!! Nearly caught out ourselves when the Harbourmaster at Ryde told us to moor on their pontoons, we upped lines and
quickly moored along the wall there fortunately;some others didn't ,and were close to tipping inward,and not a very clean bottom to rest on either.
There but for the grace..... etc,etc.!!! Nearly caught out ourselves when the Harbourmaster at Ryde told us to moor on their pontoons, we upped lines and
quickly moored along the wall there fortunately;some others didn't ,and were close to tipping inward,and not a very clean bottom to rest on either.
nigella
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We had a similar experience a few years ago in Looe. We tied up to the harbour wall in a Centaur and went shopping. When we returned a French yacht was rafted up to us, no problem as his lines were ashore. We said hello then cooked our meal , but whilst eating I recalled a piece in a magazine where a French yacht fell over because they didn’t realise that the other boats moored near them were bilge keels.
We went to speak to the Frenchman as although the tide was falling there was still plenty of water. We explained that it was a drying berth and would he be able to dry. He flatly refused to believe that he would dry as his French pilot didn’t say it dried, we produced the chart and the ferryman came along to confirm this. He couldn’t understand why we wouldn’t have a problem so we drew a picture of the keels, but he still wouldn’t believe he was going to dry and refused to get his legs out. By now there probably wouldn’t have been enough water for him to move.
The French crew went off into downtown Looe and returned to find their boat lying on its side and the bow line snapped. Thankfully the yacht fell away from us. The local boatmen had been to a social event and thought a fallen down yacht was hilarious until they realised that the sixteen year old skipper and her mother were a bit concerned. They were wonderful then and lent us lots more fenders for the wall and waited until the French arrived back. They sobered up very quickly when they saw their boat. They did crawl around under our boat amazed at our twin keels sitting proudly on the gravel!
PS This is my forum debut as I’ve never had the nerve before!
We went to speak to the Frenchman as although the tide was falling there was still plenty of water. We explained that it was a drying berth and would he be able to dry. He flatly refused to believe that he would dry as his French pilot didn’t say it dried, we produced the chart and the ferryman came along to confirm this. He couldn’t understand why we wouldn’t have a problem so we drew a picture of the keels, but he still wouldn’t believe he was going to dry and refused to get his legs out. By now there probably wouldn’t have been enough water for him to move.
The French crew went off into downtown Looe and returned to find their boat lying on its side and the bow line snapped. Thankfully the yacht fell away from us. The local boatmen had been to a social event and thought a fallen down yacht was hilarious until they realised that the sixteen year old skipper and her mother were a bit concerned. They were wonderful then and lent us lots more fenders for the wall and waited until the French arrived back. They sobered up very quickly when they saw their boat. They did crawl around under our boat amazed at our twin keels sitting proudly on the gravel!
PS This is my forum debut as I’ve never had the nerve before!
Kilter
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Welcome Nigella!
TiggerToo
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perfect to scrub off the remaining bands of weed and fouling that evidently where missed in the last haulout.
DavenHelen
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tmh900
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It is the boat I did DS on so I hope it was not on a course...
Out of interest, is that a Bene First 35s5?
DavenHelen
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Sybarite
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It seems to be quite the practice in Scilly especially between Tresco and Bhryer.
Rosa
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Welcome to the forum. An interesting post and I hope you post many more!
