Solent mobos

[Greenheart]

...exactly 50% of all boat users are below average ability/understanding.

Well, I know I'm below average...does that mean I can safely bet that on average, everyone else's bets will be better than my own?

I think I need a drink. :very_drunk:

 

[xyachtdave]

I think I need to edit my previous post to say 'I'd like them to get out the way but assume they won't!'

 

[Bobc]

Get over it guys, it really isn't such a big deal.

The Solent is a river and is the most congested boaty playground in the UK. There are cruising yachts, mobos, racing yachts, racing dinghies, ferries, commercial ships, hovercraft, etc.... and I guarantee there's something for everyone to complain about.

If you don't like it, go sail elsewhere. I just wave and count-up the £5 notes that are being burnt as they go past

 

[SimonFa]

OK, as a wake maker (part time), here are my rules.

So, in order of protection status.

No wake, ever. Slow to 4 if neccessary. (biggest culprits in my opinion are RIBs and yachties in the RAF launch on the hamble ignoring the carnage caused by their chauffeur)
People up masts. People boarding from dinghy. People hanging off to clean boat etc. People filling with fuel.

Give very wide berth or slow (right) down. Boats at anchor or yachts downwind, particularly with spinnakers up, yachts with people doing foredeck work. The smoother the sea the more this rule applies.

Nice rules and appreciated. Can I request that Mobos add young kids in Mirror dinghies to the second or possibly first. I have seen them buzzed in Weymouth Bay on more than one occasion.

 

[Elessar]

Nice rules and appreciated. Can I request that Mobos add young kids in Mirror dinghies to the second or possibly first. I have seen them buzzed in Weymouth Bay on more than one occasion.

they would be in fact and tenders, too......
Just forgot them when writing the list.

 

[JumbleDuck]

The solent offers amazing diversity in a day sail or weekend sail.
It offers shelter when you need to go sailing on saturday not monday when the forecast is good.
It offers real challenges too. Ocean sailors may scoff but it is true.
And is an easy commute for many.

Much the same as the Firth of Clyde is for us central/southern Scots.

 

[Greenheart]

Much the same as the Firth of Clyde is for us central/southern Scots.

I'll be interested to hear Dylan's reflections on leaving the Solent, Chichester and local waters. They're the only places I feel I know well, so the prospect of many days or even weeks spent crawling gradually up the east coast into colder Scottish waters, with latter sections pretty bare of traffic, sounds...dare I say it? Dull.

My grandfather was from Pin Mill, so I ought to have been at least as far as Suffolk long ago, to see how narrow my mind has become; but if anybody asks why is the Solent so crowded, I reckon it's because having begun sailing here, there's not very much within a week's round trip, to entice the developing yachtsman away.

That's balls, of course; I'm crazy about Devon and Cornwall, parts of Wales look fabulous, the west of Ireland too, and all the Scottish islands look incomparably beautiful.

I'll head up that way when I have a wheelhouse.

 

[oldgit]

I just wave and count-up the £5 notes that are being burnt as they go past

H,mm suspect that counting individual fivers will not be possible due to amount of them being burnt per millisecond,however £50 pound notes may be easier to distinguish.

 

[Daydream believer]

I just wave and count-up the £5 notes that are being burnt as they go past

At least it gives them a warm feeling, knowing they can afford it & not have to rough it in a knackered old bilge keeler

 

[[2068]]

At least it gives them a warm feeling, knowing they can afford it & not have to rough it in a knackered old bilge keeler

Not all can, though.
Someone I know got a great deal on a 26ft Mobo from the USA with old-style 200hp two strokes.
It turns out, a fill-up from empty costs £950...

 

[dylanwinter]

Has anybody kept a tally of the number of great divide threads started by DW? Ive lost count.
Its all in the mind Dylan. I have a mobo which I cruise habitually at around 7knots and am probably physically affected by wash more than you as I don't have a massive keel. I agree some boats do show a lack of consideration, but at the end of the day its a wave, a very small wave, a very very small wave. A bit like being at sea really. Get over it. (the wave that is)

sorry.... I cannot really be held responsible for the length of the threads

however, if they are of interest .... well then so be it

I kick of threads about stuff that I find fascinating - such as the use of a steering sail - and the thing sinks like a stone

D

 

[flaming]

I kick of threads about stuff that I find fascinating - such as the use of a steering sail - and the thing sinks like a stone

D

Well at least it didn't veer off course.

 

[prv]

Not all can, though.
Someone I know got a great deal on a 26ft Mobo from the USA with old-style 200hp two strokes.
It turns out, a fill-up from empty costs £950...

I know someone who's planning to get into that situation on purpose.




He just wants the boat to live on, rather than go anywhere, so his cunning plan is to buy some enormous old petrol gas-guzzler that nobody wants because of its thirst - and thus get it cheap.

Pete

 

[chewi]

Suggest you never go anywhere near the ledge off Hengistbury Head, then!
The gentle sound of waterfalls as the standing wave gathers around you is something I don't want to hear again in a hurry.

Those are overfalls, and charted as such because they are a hazard!

 

[[2068]]

I know someone who's planning to get into that situation on purpose.

He just wants the boat to live on, rather than go anywhere, so his cunning plan is to buy some enormous old petrol gas-guzzler that nobody wants because of its thirst - and thus get it cheap.

Pete

Fine, so long as there is plenty of accommodation.
Not such a great plan if it's a fishing style cuddy, with massive rod holders out back for the Tuna, and a live bait well instead of a fridge.

 

[[2068]]

Those are overfalls, and charted as such because they are a hazard!

Indeed.
A course was set to avoid the wavy bits on the chart.
But not far enough off, as it turned out!

 

[JumbleDuck]

The worst rock'n'roll I've had in Chi was on a mooring at itchenor when an inshore fishing boat came past with the throttle nailed to the bulkhead. Right in front of the HM office too. Probably the HM's brother in law.

You should see how the fishing boats come in and out of Kirkcudbright, within 20m of the marina pontoon. Five knot speed limit my bottom.