Selfish yacht, poor show Yarmouth

Elessar

Elessar

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Can't sleep due to a generator running on a yacht. I dont think Ive ever heard such a loud generator, my mobo main engines are quieter.
Yarmouth, despite people queueing to complain, refuse to do anything about it. The people on the yacht (crew not owners i think) don't care and ignore the complaints. Poor show all round :(
 
Bananas, or in extremis softwood bungs and a mallet. Potatos are supposed to be good too. If you were a keen diver, you could shove a screwed up carrier bag into the SW intake.
 
Elessar said:
Yarmouth, despite people queueing to complain, refuse to do anything about it.
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Your contract is with Yarmouth. It would be interesting to see if there are any implicit terms & conditions when you hand over money to berth there.

Encourage everyone to queue up again in the morning (different staff on duty) and demand your money back. Make their life miserable.

Alternatively, maintain your karma and quietly move on.
 
Don't worry - in a year or two you won't bother posting because so many people will be doing it.

Med anchorages are spoilt by the sound of generators running to keep aircon, fridges and now bright underwater lights (which ruins the atmosphere).

This year for the first time I'm encountering sailing boats on town quays and marinas taking up two electric sockets to run air conditioning that keeps noisy flows of water going all night, usually right by your cabin windows.
 
A popular on in caravan sites. Put bread on the roof during the night, first thing in the morning the owners are awoken by the gulls scrambling to get it. Not quite as noisy in a boat but the mess may make it worth while.
 
You have to remember the needs of others are far greater than yours, the people who this applies to are so very important, you should be pleased you were graced with being able to share the same marina as them. Their needs are only outweighed by the needs of someone far more important than them.

There seems to be a growing number of arrogant selfish people who care little for the comfort of others.
 
Hadenough said:
Unfortunately true as many posts on here enquiring about the bloody things confirms.
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One slight if immature thing I noticed was that sailing boats plugged in with noisy aircon have every single hatch and window shut so are unaware of the noise they are making, and also noticed that the aircon cycles off for a little bit every few minutes.

So if someone was mendacious enough to get off their own boat and wander to the power bollard then nobody would hear them, and as long as the plugs were pulled out when the aircon was in its off cycle then then wouldn't notice it was being turned off.

Oh dear, you now have a very quiet boat full of people asleep with hatches shut, hot night, and cool air inside for long enough for neighbouring boats to get to sleep...I hope they wake up comfortable and rested too...
 
I think it's reasonable to have a generator and even run it at times. I would have one if I could fit one on my boat, it could make me much more independent of marinas. I'm very concious though of the hideous intrusion of the noise on a peacefull anchorage, or a harbour even.
I would have thought that harbours would have by-laws about noise nuisance/pollution. Were they simply not enforced by negligent staff or did the harbour master have no legal basis to act?
 
Firstly we are very sorry if any visitors to Yarmouth were disturbed by the noise of the generator running on this superyacht overnight. We did however point out the problem before berthing other vessels near this yacht and/or offer an alternative berth if we received a complaint.
The yacht in question came in for one night and actually stayed for five nights due to the weather.
We are able to supply power at 16 amps and 32 amps, but this yacht required 64 amps which we could not supply. We did put an electrician on board to try and solve the problem, but without success. We also helped the yacht's crew to muffle to sea water discharge. So we tried our best but actually failed to solve the issue.
Once again, apologies.
 
chris225 said:
Firstly we are very sorry if any visitors to Yarmouth were disturbed by the noise of the generator running on this superyacht overnight. We did however point out the problem before berthing other vessels near this yacht and/or offer an alternative berth if we received a complaint.
The yacht in question came in for one night and actually stayed for five nights due to the weather.
We are able to supply power at 16 amps and 32 amps, but this yacht required 64 amps which we could not supply. We did put an electrician on board to try and solve the problem, but without success. We also helped the yacht's crew to muffle to sea water discharge. So we tried our best but actually failed to solve the issue.
Once again, apologies.
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Why not just tell then that they can't have 64 amps?
 
chris225 said:
We are able to supply power at 16 amps and 32 amps, but this yacht required 64 amps which we could not supply. We did put an electrician on board to try and solve the problem, but without success. .
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Not much of an electrician if he failed to suggest the obvious ... just turn some stuff OFF! :D

Or to put it another way, I very much doubt if they REQUIRED 64A - they wanted it yes, but would the yacht have sunk if they had tio reduce the load by reducing the amount of kit running? No
 
galadriel said:
You have to remember the needs of others are far greater than yours, the people who this applies to are so very important, you should be pleased you were graced with being able to share the same marina as them. Their needs are only outweighed by the needs of someone far more important than them.

There seems to be a growing number of arrogant selfish people who care little for the comfort of others.
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