ricky_s
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I suspect you may have a long wait for a reply......
Solent mobos
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I suspect you may have a long wait for a reply......
dylanwinter
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thanks for the offer....very good of you
I am leaving the solent on sunday week so I shall be moving piles of equipment around ready for three months aboard Harmony
so I have my work cut out and it would be waste of good diesel
I fear that I would be a hard person to convince that a big planing mobo is in any way a good thing... for me
I am 59 and have been kicking around boats since I was seven years old ribs, sea going trawlers, horse drawn canal boats, motorised canal boats, no end of small powered craft and of course every type of sailing vessel from a Hobie to a Thames barge.
I know that the best thing about any engine for me is when when you turn it off
Only then natural sounds start to establish themselves as the physics of wind and water start to move the boat forwards.
My best freind is a keen fisherman - for many years he was convinced that if he could only get me to stand on the perfect riverbank with a glittering trout on the end of a hook then I would be a convert.
I tried and it just did not do it for me
Every time the boat slows down Jill gets the spinner out
I would rather open a tin of baked beans
D
this is more my sort of mobo
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/blogs/daves-lovely-mobo/
dylanwinter
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I have been there and done that
it does nothing for me
really sorry about that
and you have been awfully rude about and to me whereas I have said nothing at all rude to you
I sincerely apologise if I upset you in some way
Dylan
KevB
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Nice boat. Maybe next time.
ps my boat isn't big
ps my boat isn't big
KevB
Active member
Actually I give up. I retract my offer. You constantly make snide comments about mobo's and their owners and then you say I'm being rude to you.
Grow up and stop your childish, snide remarks.
Enjoy your sailing and good health to you.
Aardee
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I'm beginning to wonder if I sail in a different Solent...yes, it can be busy and yes, it can all get a bit close-quarters at times, but whatever happened to live-and-let-live? For every time I've had to round up into a motorboat's wash, I'm sure a motorboat has had to change course to avoid my seemingly random meandering, yet somehow we all seem to rub along OK. Maybe it's because my shoulders are relatively chip-free and I'm the sort of simple chap that acknowledges other boaters with a cheery wave 
Life's too short...
Life's too short...
Greenheart
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+1 :encouragement:
Twister_Ken
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this is more my sort of mobo
And this is my sort…
I suspect there's a lot of fun to be had with that.
Aardee
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And this is my sort…
I suspect there's a lot of fun to be had with that.
I thought "Cornish Clam" was some sort of euphemism?
Greenheart
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Isn't that the Aussie slang, "spear the bearded clam"?
I feel sick.
I feel sick.
Nicholas123
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All motor boat owners should be forced to sit on their pride & joy waiting for the tide to go out a few inches above a hard bottom while somebody goes past creating a lot of wash,I suspect it would change many a mobo owners outlook.
Many clearly have no real experience.
Many clearly have no real experience.
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Elessar
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why do the anti mobo brigade assume that motor boats never sit at anchor? They don't have the benefit of a lump of lead or iron on the bottom either.
aslabend
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Oh dear, so you've just said then that they are therefor aware and so are just being willfully antagonistic. Something we've suspected for a long time
Nicholas123
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I'm not talking about at anchor I'm talking about waiting to scrub the bottom or take the ground & I'm not anti-motor boat owner some can be very considerate but......there are some that clearly have no knowledge of the effect their wash can have & some clearly don't even care.They make that clear when you try to point that out to them.
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Greenheart
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Dear me, we don't seem to be getting very far here.
I reckon there's a genuinely well-meaning percentage of sailboaters who try not to cause unpredictable obstruction in the paths of motor boats, and an equal percentage of motorboaters who definitely don't like upsetting the sailboat crews they pass.
The difficulty here is that however reasonable we may feel, we don't speak for all who enjoy the same pursuits we do...
...so even if the most pugnaciously self-defensive sail-boaters and motor-yachtsmen here on the forum agree that it's in everyone's interests to be considerate, there'll still always be some selfish gits, tarring the good name and best intentions of the rest.
I reckon there's a genuinely well-meaning percentage of sailboaters who try not to cause unpredictable obstruction in the paths of motor boats, and an equal percentage of motorboaters who definitely don't like upsetting the sailboat crews they pass.
The difficulty here is that however reasonable we may feel, we don't speak for all who enjoy the same pursuits we do...
...so even if the most pugnaciously self-defensive sail-boaters and motor-yachtsmen here on the forum agree that it's in everyone's interests to be considerate, there'll still always be some selfish gits, tarring the good name and best intentions of the rest.
Elessar
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yep - true.
colhel
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ricky_s
Active member
These threads always end the same way, stalemate! Neither side can be convinced that they are wrong.
dylanwinter
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Greenheart
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Nuts, isn't it. Might as well try to reconcile the Jews and Arabs.
