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[Csail]

Thought these two were strange from Cardiff Bay rules- (7&8)

7. Asking before coming alongside or crossing the deck of another boat and using plenty of tenders.

8. Not jumping onto another boat’s deck, nor putting weight on ropes or guardrails.




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[harvey]

Seem fair enough to me. It's always pleasant for an arriving boat to ask before coming alongside even if he expects that he's going to anyway. The one about pulling/pushing guardrails and stanchions is a bee in my bonnet. It really grieves me when people do it whether they're hauling themselves onboard from the pontoon or using the rails to pull their boat in. That's what gives your boat cracking around the guardrail stanchions and lets water in through the bolt holes. I don't much like people jumping onto my deck from a great height either!Much better to be at anchor.....
John

 

[harvey]

Ooops....might have missed the point! Just read the tenders bit. Sorry.....

 

[Twister_Ken]

But I've only got one tender.

 

[StugeronSteve]

One of mine was tender, but antibiotics seemed to clear it up.

 

[StugeronSteve]

Grabbing stanchions, dont get me started, please.

The stanchion bases on my Dehler were embedded in the GRP toe rail and whenever anybody pulled on them I finished up with crazed gel coat.

Grrrr...

 

[JREdginton]

Seems to me that if a laminate and stanchion mount can't take someone heaving on it, it is not up to the job it is there for. i.e. stop someone going over the side, what is going to happen when someone is slung againt it in a seaway and need to support themselves?

Not a dig at any particular boat, just a worry about more and more builders moving to the edges of structural limits to save a few quid in the construction process.

Given the depths the RCD team have gone to I am surprised they have not addressed this /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[StugeronSteve]

I can understand your concern, but I really don't think the system is weak. Just poorly designed, in that the gel coat is tight to the protruding stanchion, which makes no allowance for movement. Being a trailer sailer, it was not unusual for peeps to haul themselves up on to the deck by the stanchions and there was never any hint of the structure failing.