Selfish yacht, poor show Yarmouth

prv said:
Parachute flares.

Pete
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Thanks. I had guessed that, but nowhere, nowhere could I find the word 'paraluminaries' on the internet! In Spanish, yes, but they use 'para' a bit more generally than us, I think. Or it could have been Portuguese...

I wonder if our ongoing hubbub here, will have been brought to the attention of SeaQuell's owners/operators? Any chance they'll have a normal 32amp hook-up ready for action, next time they dare show their outlandish appetite for energy, in Yarmouth?
 
dancrane said:
Umm...a Google search left me none the wiser...is this a bit of Stanley Unwin Gobbledegook, or does it have a meaning? :confused:
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My 2x 40mm Pains Wessex Marine illumin para rocket Mk3 (white), are Time Expired Pyrotechnics:D

Very useful when desperate shouting/splashing heard from the water, no one can be seen, and most hand lamp beams are very narrow, if bright.

Always a lot of effort required to get hold of replacements, but worth it.

Ah,See we still have plenty of Lerts, Pete!
 
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dancrane said:
Ah! That had me wondering, too. Now I know. But...isn't the out-of-date element, more of a recipe for :eek:, than :D ??
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TEPs orf boat, their replacements due any day now.
Keep 'em dry and clean; they'll fire up to 5 years later- Merchant shipping pyros usually have a 5 years use by date, we usually get the same kit, but with a 3 year ubd.
French fishermans coops like that in Granville, usually give best value for money on all pyros.
I do support my local chandler though:D
 
RupertW said:
And to those who have well installed quiet generators - they are only quiet to you, just try drifting downwind in the tender for a few yards and then say that.
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It depends on how well installed it is, and what type it is.

Our generator is an inherently quiet 1500 rpm one, in a sound enclosure on rubber feet, which in turn is inside a soundproof engine room with lead foil lined walls. It has a jumbo Halyard silencer with water separator and the cooling water is discharged underwater silently. It is not quiet -- it is entirely inaudible, from downwind in the tender or anywhere else. Neighbors are not even aware that it is running, when I run it, and I've never had a single comment. I have a good sized battery bank and no air conditioning (and for God's sake, no underwater lights :) ), so I don't run it all that much, but I don't hesitate to fire it up when I need it.

I did have a quite rude complaint about sound from my Eberspaecher heater one evening in Tregeuier this summer -- from one British yachtsman. I immediately switched it off. The exhaust from Ebers and Webastos is much louder than the sound of a well-installed low-speed genset.

I am surprised that a hyperexpensive superyacht (100 feet from what I can see) would have such a noisy genset. But I guess if you have to make 64 amps, you need a different kind of beast from what us mere mortals have . . .
 
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Elessar said:
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 :(
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No one has complained about my air conditioning water outlet running 12 hours a day. I really wish the neighbours would come and complain. They are a group of 20 somethings on Daddies yacht. Dutch pretty and im sure up for a sail :-) if only!!
 
snooks said:
Surely something like a broken split pin and a clevis pin of a suitable size pinged somewhere near the mast woul be more entertaining :D
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Thats cruel droping a shackle pin or clevis pin in boat and let them worry the the day through..

Now what would be appropriate to do similar to get some one to stop there wind generator?
 
grumpy_o_g said:
With a bit of re-wiring any wind generator can be converted to a very effective battery-powered fan....
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Can our household fan be just as easily re-wired to sit on the roof and contribute to the National Grid? :rolleyes:

I'd imagine that if someone who didn't care about their noise nuisance, was aboard their yacht with a wind-turbine running, and the turbine irritated people locally, but the skipper refused to switch it off...

...and if a child in the area was flying a small, inexpensive kite, like this:

http://www.greenfingers.com/superst...T1280D&co=fr&gclid=CLOJhomVgbICFafLtAodMnYAOg

...well, it'd be important that the young lad or lass didn't let the kite tangle in the turbine's blades. Especially if the cord was made of something damned-nearly unbreakable. ;)
 
From the earlier posts I have waded through it appears Yarmouth marina did all they couod to accommodate everyone, there appears to be alot of whinging from NIMBYS who would do exactly the same thing if they had a superyacht. HH has a windgen (R913) which was purchased not because it was the best but because it was quiet and complimented the solar panels, If I need to run the geni I will run it taking into account the neighbours and the time of day unless we have a real powerdrama and then I will run it when I deem it appropriate to do so and explain to the neighbours the reason why; we run it notionally at 0900 to 1000 if we have to but annually we run it less than 100hrs aand we live onboard 365. We have aircon units but the military taught me that in the hotter climates there is hot air and you get conditioned to it - Air Conditioning. Great whingy thread though, wonder how many pages it will run to?
 
We were moored 100 yards or so away and couldn't hear them at all, although we did hear others complaining. They spent in excess of £1,500 refuelling which on top of a hefty mooring fee may give some clue as to why the harbourmaster was happy for them to continue.
 
CelebrityScandel said:
As I have pointed out, we have 2 generators, either of which will carry the vessel's load without airconditioning, so there is redundancy. We can also generate off the main engine.

As you may be aware, given your claims of big vessel experience, it is normal when in class to be required to have an installed small manual cranked generator for the case of getting a black ship up and running. In our case we have a negotiated agreement with our classification society that given the diversity of power sources we have, that small generator is not required.

With your claimed experience you will also know, as I have made clear already, that essential services for the navigation and safety of the vessel can be serviced from batteries as is required by class. However, you will also know that domestic services do not comprise any of those and that these batteries are to be on continual charge.

Regarding your other questions and claims, please reread my posts as I make it very clear that there is no intention of running all equipment at once nor that some of it cannot be run without generators. In any event I would have thought that was obvious, but apparantly not.

Anyway, it seems these types of boats are even outside your ken else you would not have made the claims or raised the question that you did.

As people are coming to conclusions based on irrational thought and from a predetermined whinging position it is unlikely that any rational explanation will be taken on board by them. So as I said in my last post I will leave all the whingers to their angst and sad lives. No further questions will be answered.
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Do you do a lot of navigating moored up?

Sounds like a ***kers boat to me reading this thread.
 
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Chalker said:
Wind Generator

fishing line works well, takes an age to clear

Well it did with my line on my windgenny......
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I was talking with a friend the other day about this issue sitting on the mooring.

I told them about some people I who deliberately took on holiday tights underwear, old bras, stockings etc. To tie up frapping halyards etc.

She has now decided that she will be bringing similar next time for similar purposes, how am I going to explain this one to SWMBO :eek:
 
10 years ago, I was in Salcombe. There was a power boat moored behind my boat with its stern facing our way. It had its generator running and filled our cockpit (and a few other cockpits in our raft).

We asked the crew to shut it down. The chap on board said "I cant do that as they are drying their hair" He was referring to a coupe of teenage crew. Before I was able to respond to this nonsense, The HM arrived to collect his dues. He made it very clear that if the generator was not shut down in two nano seconds, the main engines would be needed instead as the crew would be invited to leave!

Sadly the poor chaps in Yarmouth get a lot of abuse from some crews and often try to avoid conflict by not enforcing the rules which already exist about curtailing noise.
 
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