Should you stop halyards frapping on neighbouring boats?

[clyst]

Snooks,

screaming kids are just about tolerable in daytime, but they don't usually go on all night, and at home one is probably not trying to sleep before an early start with the tide.

If people have such a poor system they need to run windgens, fine in daytime but noisy ones should be tied off at night.

The poster here who thinks he would give me a bloody nose for interfacing a dead seagull with his noisy windgen presumably is poised above the self - destruct button on the boat if the wind drops, as surely that means all is lost and it's not worth carrying on in this world...same goes apparently for people having to strain themselves clipping halliards to sensible places or frapping them

Sea Jet I expect better from you

My reply of bloodying your nose was made in the same light hearted way you stated that a seagull was go to be shredded by my genny . (I'm sure you weren't serious). if you are serious in what annoys you in marinas FFS chill you are heading for a heart attack .

 

[Seajet]

You expect better from me when I mention carting around a seagull carcass 'just in case' but then mention giving me a bloody nose ?!

No, I was deadly serious about taking that around with me; of course I'll need a freezer to store it in, naturally requiring something which sounds like a jet engine being pushed over a cliff to power said freezer...

 

[Seajet]

It's simply common courtesy to avoid subjecting others to unnecessary noise due to your action or inaction. People who take steps to reduce the effects of such omissions of courtesy are not appointing themselves the 'noise police', they are simply enhancing their surroundings by correcting the annoyances created by lazy, selfish slobs who are too ignorant to understand even simple social concepts such as manners and courtesy.

If you're happy to embrace such dimwits and tolerate their rudeness, that's fine, you fill your boots. I, however, will not.

Wot he said. With brass knobs on.

 

[snooks]

It's simply common courtesy to avoid subjecting others to unnecessary noise due to your action or inaction. People who take steps to reduce the effects of such omissions of courtesy are not appointing themselves the 'noise police', they are simply enhancing their surroundings by correcting the annoyances created by lazy, selfish slobs who are too ignorant to understand even simple social concepts such as manners and courtesy.

If you're happy to embrace such dimwits and tolerate their rudeness, that's fine, you fill your boots. I, however, will not.

So someone who might have innocently forgotten to frap a halyard is "a lazy, selfish slob who is too ignorant to understand even simple social concepts such as manners and courtesy."?

See that's why I love sailing, everyone is so pleasat and friendly to each othert, everyone is tolerant of one another, everyone is perfect and no one ever makes an innocent mistake.

 

[Simondjuk]

So someone who might have innocently forgotten to frap a halyard is "a lazy, selfish slob who is too ignorant to understand even simple social concepts such as manners and courtesy."?

See that's why I love sailing, everyone is so pleasat and friendly to each othert, everyone is tolerant of one another, everyone is perfect and no one ever makes an innocent mistake.

No, if they forgot it'd be different. Then they'd be a blithering, scatterbrained imbecile.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Wot he said. With brass knobs on.

Brass knuckles, not knobs, surely, from the fred above?

 

[snowleopard]

May I take it that you would have preferred your snotty English neighbour to have tied off your halyard for you, and spared you the earful?

Had they done so, I would have been quite happy. If they had knocked on the hull I would have apologised and got up and done it for them.

 

[Seajet]

If someone has genuinely forgotten to sort their halliards etc out so they don't tap - and people can be in a situation where say a relative has gone ill so the boat is understandably piled into her berth, quickly tied then everyone legs it, it's happened to me - then they presumably won't mind and may even be grateful if neighbouring boat people who know the situation ( or maybe those who don't ) sort the lines, fenders & frapping halliards out...

It happened to me, and while I did leave the boat in reasonable order, I was grateful for people tending over her while we went at Warp 9 to the hospital...

 

[Danny Jo]

Had they done so, I would have been quite happy. If they had knocked on the hull I would have apologised and got up and done it for them.

Thanks. True to form.

I've had a couple of whiskies, so I'll have to be careful. I'm not religious, and not particularly passionate, but I have a belief that can only be described as passionate that "loving thy neighbour as thyself" is not just good for thy neighbour, it's good for thee.

 

[Seajet]

Thanks. True to form.

I've had a couple of whiskies, so I'll have to be careful. I'm not religious, and not particularly passionate, but I have a belief that can only be described as passionate that "loving thy neighbour as thyself" is not just good for thy neighbour, it's good for thee.

I was once next to a boat where a lady skipper mentioned that sort of thing; at the time I went by the advice of Starship Captain James Tiberius Kirk, " To boldly Go where hopefully not too many people have been before " and declined.

However as I approach a birthday with a zero on the end and such offers seem thin on the ground, I can't help thinking I may have made a mistake.