RIB drivers. Ignorant or inconsiderate?

[Adios]

Interestingly pop over to a RIB forum and you'll find relatively little hostility to others... perhaps they make you less judgemental.

I had a load of kids in dinghies bashing into my boat once at anchor and this snooty kid comes past and shouts "If you're wondering why everyone hates you its because you're in our way". Seemed that someone had set their course around my boat. Other than that I can't imagine why anyone would be annoyed about yachts, with our steady displacement speeds, so its not saying much that you can't find people hostile to us.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Power boaters love our sailboat. It’s other yotties that often appear to hate us. Less so these days, but theres still a lot of prejudice about multihulls and their owners.

 

[Adios]

Power boaters love our sailboat. It’s other yotties that often appear to hate us. Less so these days, but theres still a lot of prejudice about multihulls and their owners.

There understandably is to wide beam narrowboats on canals but why would anyone be prejudiced against multihulls? what am i missing

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

We find the same in the North. The fast heavily manned one this morning disturbing the tranquility of Ballyholm Bay was the NI Police training boat on a course though!

Last evening, lots of paddleboarders and kyakers in the bay and a bloke from nearby Bangor Marina towed a young girl about a dozen times through the midst of them, including between us on the hook and a nearby Norwegian visitor. He, I thought, dropped his hook a bit close, about one and a half boat lengths from us when he settled.
The Bowrider towing the wakeboard bisected our space about ten times. Glaring at him produced a friendly wave..............................................

Like the poor, Pratts in boats will always be with us!

PS - The Police rib has just done the same at 30 knots!

They will never be perturbed by a "Hard Stare" ?

 

[Greenheart]

I had a load of kids in dinghies bashing into my boat and this snooty kid shouts "If you're wondering why everyone hates you its because you're in our way". Seemed that someone had set their course around my boat.

I'm amazed at your self-control. I would have found that a bucketful of my bilge-water needed emptying at exactly the moment that young reptile spoke.

It does sound like he might have been smiling about it, though, as if your boat represented a windward mark that was a trial for the kids to have to round.

 

[Adios]

They will never be perturbed by a "Hard Stare" ?

I inherited a couple of sacks full of golf balls with my house. I wonder if they would be perturbed enough by some sort of cannon?

 

[Greenheart]

Conspicuously driving golf-balls from the foredeck could be a great way to discourage people from anchoring too close.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

There understandably is to wide beam narrowboats on canals but why would anyone be prejudiced against multihulls? what am i missing

Sometimes, I think theres a bit of the racer in most of us. People get seriously pissed when we sail though their lee. I do that to avoid stealing their wind, for which they’d be even angrier.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Going near a wake-producing craft in/on something that proceeds at walking pace? The duty to keep clear remains on the power craft's side, although it's obviously subject to potential foolhardiness on the paddleboarder's part(crossing navigable channels etc)

All of us have rights and responsibilities as clearly and legally delineated in the COLREGs; learn them or risk getting your collar felt.

All boaters should be aware that the generality of people who take to the water on any kind of board or kayak are likely to do so in sublime ignorance of the existence of any such thing as the Colregs, so it behoves us all to give them a wide berth.

 

[Offshore57]

T o answer the original question I would like to say that the majority of proper rib drivers are not ignorant or inconsiderate......just like the majority of sailing skippers always check astern and have a good look round before changing direction instantly, or most Mobo skippers give everyone a nice wide berth whilst reducing their wash.....but sadly there are elements of all disciplines and preferences that don't give a crap about anyone else, paddleboarders and swimmers included and unless we all take up arms, there is little we can do about it except report the more serious events and hope nobody is injured or worse.

 

[mm42]

Sailing vessels may be a pain, but mainly because they can't help it.

In my experience that isn’t the case, it is apparent the only colreg most yachtsmen learn is Rule 18, and ignore anything else. I regularly (once or twice a week) hear HMCG hailing yachts going the wrong way up a TSS, not monitoring 16, bimbling along in their own world oblivious to the chaos they’re causing. I’ve been in the main channel out of Poole, in a 249 tonne ship, when a yacht has entered the channel dead ahead of us, stopped and started to mess about with his sails.

These aren’t issues brought about by the lack of manoeuvrability of yachts, they’re caused by idiot helms, which brings me right back to my point that rhibs aren’t the problem, just that some skippers are idiots on them, just as some yacht skippers are idiots, as are some PWC skippers are too.

 

[Greenheart]

These aren’t issues brought about by the lack of manoeuvrability of yachts, they’re caused by idiot helms, which brings me back to my point that rhibs aren’t the problem, just that some skippers are idiots on them, just as some yacht skippers are idiots, as are some PWC skippers are too.

It's true (although "some PWC skippers" is rather generous of you). We all just hate idiots.

What does the H represent in RHIB? "Hellish"? "Hopefully"?

 

[Adios]

I'm amazed at your self-control. I would have found that a bucketful of my bilge-water needed emptying at exactly the moment that young reptile spoke.

It does sound like he might have been smiling about it, though, as if your boat represented a windward mark that was a trial for the kids to have to round.

She was very mater of fact about it. Plummy and entitled. An unforgettable encounter that might have set back my interest in dinghy racing and yacht clubs a fair way. I've only just managed to overlook the use of the title Commodore. I'm awfully awfully red brick you see...

 

[mm42]

It's true (although "some PWC skippers" is rather generous of you). We all just hate idiots.

What does the H represent in RHIB? "Hellish"? "Hopefully"?

Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boats. Not sure when the change came about but that’s how it tends to be commercially now.

 

[Adios]

Sometimes, I think theres a bit of the racer in most of us. People get seriously pissed when we sail though their lee. I do that to avoid stealing their wind, for which they’d be even angrier.

Thats bonkers. No monohulled skipper would expect to keep up. Maybe its your head back and maniacal laughter that they're pissed off by?

 

[Greenheart]

She was very matter-of-fact about it. Plummy and entitled.

I wonder how she judged that you were in her way, if the race took the competitors round your boat? A race-mark, in whatever form, isn't an obstruction so much as an obligation, as far as I understand it (although I enjoy knowing nothing about racing).

But definitely, in your place, a bucket of my bilge-water would have needed instantaneous emptying.

 

[Adios]

I wonder how she judged that you were in her way, if the race took the competitors round your boat? A race-mark, in whatever form, isn't an obstruction so much as an obligation, as far as I understand it (although I enjoy knowing nothing about racing).

But definitely, in your place, a bucket of my bilge-water would have needed instantaneous emptying.

I assumed I was awkwardly between marks somehow. They just kept bumping up against the rear quarter as they went past. Sadly it was a trailer sailer with no bilge and even sadder, my bucket was empty.

 

[Greenheart]

Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boats...that’s how it tends to be commercially, now.

Certainly not blaming you, but that's a completely unnecessary elaboration. Where did the rigidity come from in "rigid inflatable boats", if not from the hull? There weren't even any exceptions.

RHIB Routinely Helmed Inconsiderately - Beware.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Thats bonkers. No monohulled skipper would expect to keep up. Maybe its your head back and maniacal laughter that they're pissed off by?

I keep my general air of smugness to myself, in the main. It is odd though how many power boat owners will make conversation, usually about performance, and how many yacht owners will avoid eye contact. Obviously, the boat is famously ‘not a yacht’. The NYYC gave us that label, a lifetime ago.

 

[Greenheart]

Do the powerboat owners stay chatty when you move on, to fuel consumption?