Mudisox
Well-known member
Gerry,
Hope your problem is shortly resolved. I'm looking forward to hearing the outcome! Please let us know.
+1 I really would like to know the outcome of this.
Gerry,
Hope your problem is shortly resolved. I'm looking forward to hearing the outcome! Please let us know.
More likely Southampton than Portsmouth?
Doesn't Southampton University have any water nearby to float their oversized anemometers on?
...long-term testing of the turbine but I don't really know.
Stick it on another mooring, job done.
It's what comes of filling the place with criminals 200 years ago.
Also wondering if notice has been placed on the craft pointing out that it is on the OP's mooring and asking for the owners to remove it and/or contact the club mooring officer
So what's Gerry supposed to do with his boat in the meantime, go into a marina then invoice the idiot ?!
All moorings should have a number on them, and if people can't tell Langstone from Portsmouth I don't want to be on the same planet as them - am probably not !
For all you know it might be gently pumping c.difficile or something equally noxious into the water as a subtle unit of Al Q'aeda's navy. Environment Agency, local Health Authority, local Emergency Planning Office, all should be brought in to play. Raise the stakes.
Well Langstone and Portsmouth are both big wet areas and both are next to Portsmouth. To someone who doesn't sail/boat/etc. they are just that and nothing more - the pretty bits next to the beach. Say for instance you're working on a Uni project and mention you need to put equipment on the water. The Uni may arrange you a temporary mooring and tell you "mooring 23A in Portsmouth Harbour". because of this, you look in the water next to Portsmouth and find a buoy with 23A written on it and tie up. Why would you search for another one when you think you've found it?
I'm not exactly "Mr Empathy" towards my fellow Man, especially when my fellow Man is dumb as a box of rocks, but in this case I can see how a mistake could be genuine.
I bet the students aren't worrying about the hassle they've caused, bung the thing on shore and phone the local Uni's...
That's my point though, they are probably unaware of all of this and think they're in the right spot. I'm not saying nothing should be done, just countering the "cut it loose" crowd.
Could the person who put it there have paid for a mooring but lack the skill to actually find the correct one? .