Short Dinghy painters

JumbleDuck said:
The idiots know already. They just don't care.

And a big shout out to the people at Coll two years ago who thrashed the guts out of their outboard to overtake at the last moment a small child rowing to the steps, pushed in ahead and tied their dinghy up so tight that the small child couldn't get in. Thanks, guys. Hope you felt really good about that.
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Sadly I have come across this sort of attitude as well, PRV Pete.

Makes one long for a sniper rifle !

Andy
 
prv said:
I would not assume that at all. The idea of a long painter is not obvious until pointed out, I didn't know until I read about it here.

Tying a dinghy cross-wise against a ladder is different, it only takes a moment's thought to realise that that's inconsiderate.

Pete
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There often used to be a very nice wooden ketch on the fore/aft visitor buoys opposite the quay in Lymington, whose owner used to do just that, tie his tender over the dinghy pontoon ladder, exceedingly annoying to me at the time as it was when I was waiting for hip replacements and needed a little aid getting in/out of the dinghy. Same inconsiderate sod used to tie his dinghy alongside the big boat as a 'keep off, no mooring alongside' signal. I was sorely tempted to padlock it in place on the dinghy pontoon but he had a rope painter that could be cut free and I had no spare padlocks, however I did manage a very passable quadruple granny knot when I re tied it for him so it didn't drift off. A few weeks later the same guy gunned his dinghy outboard to make sure reached the dinghy pontoon and it's ladder before us ( we were rowing as usual).
 
My dinghy once got pinned under a concrete jetty by some inconsiderate sod with a very large RIB. The only way out was to deflate one of his tubes. The RIB didn't sink, though the outboard was perilously close to the water.
 
johnalison said:
It's amazing the amount of water, mud and general grot I seem to leave when forced to get ashore via a short painter end dinghy.
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I once had to resort to hauling our dinghy up onto the pontoon over the culprit in order to re-launch it where we could get back in, it left a lot of mud and weed in the offending dinghy which hopefully baked on hard in the sun. Are these the same selfish berks that park in disabled bays? I doubt that signs would make any difference on the dinghy pontoons either.:disgust:
 
prv said:
I would not assume that at all. The idea of a long painter is not obvious until pointed out, I didn't know until I read about it here.

Tying a dinghy cross-wise against a ladder is different, it only takes a moment's thought to realise that that's inconsiderate.

Pete
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pete

yes very true, I mentioned it to a short painter boater and he said thanks he didn't know as not long been boating. Some other do and don't care but you always get those in all walks of life.
 
Am I just lucky? I mainly use mine in the channel Islands. I've never had a problem with Short Painters, even in Alderney where there are a lot of visiting french yachts. I have used it in Cherbourg a couple of times when it's been full and that can be a bit different. Mind you there are a lot more places where you can tie up a dinghy there and it's seldom a problem finding somewhere in the marina.
 
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