Fire99
Well-Known Member
As the title dictates, today has not been a day of joy in boatyville.
Keeping the rant as to the point as possible I bought my current little sailer at a Sailing Club at the end of last year, then moved the little chap to Brightlingsea for winter. All joy so far!
In the meantime after a bit of a cofuffle regarding transferring the swing mooring from one owner to another. (as in you cant...) I joined the club and arranged to have the swing at the same location.. all wonderful still.
Well next I was told the swing needed to come out the water for inspection malarkey, which hard cash was handed over for the job and finally it happened.. Joy continues..
However, on popping down the sailing club today, I can't find my swing mooring. Perhaps not helped by the fact that I only saw it in the water half a dozen times and all I remember was that it was big and orange with a bit of rope hanging off it. And now there are about a dozen on the shore which, after a chat on the phone to the previous owner, none appear to be mine and there are still about 50 in the water.
And after alot of shoulder shugging from those down at the club I guess i'm gonna have to go hunting around in the water around the area where my swing was and try and see if it's still there.. (which is not too easy when your tender and yacht is at Brightlingsea and a fair trip away from the sailing club)
I find it unlikely a ton of concrete and chain would go for a walk.
And to top it off the previous owner said I was misinformed as it didn't need to come out of the water in the first place since a number of components were quite recent.
How hard can it be? Really!! Rant pt.1 over.
Keeping the rant as to the point as possible I bought my current little sailer at a Sailing Club at the end of last year, then moved the little chap to Brightlingsea for winter. All joy so far!
In the meantime after a bit of a cofuffle regarding transferring the swing mooring from one owner to another. (as in you cant...) I joined the club and arranged to have the swing at the same location.. all wonderful still.
Well next I was told the swing needed to come out the water for inspection malarkey, which hard cash was handed over for the job and finally it happened.. Joy continues..
However, on popping down the sailing club today, I can't find my swing mooring. Perhaps not helped by the fact that I only saw it in the water half a dozen times and all I remember was that it was big and orange with a bit of rope hanging off it. And now there are about a dozen on the shore which, after a chat on the phone to the previous owner, none appear to be mine and there are still about 50 in the water.
And after alot of shoulder shugging from those down at the club I guess i'm gonna have to go hunting around in the water around the area where my swing was and try and see if it's still there.. (which is not too easy when your tender and yacht is at Brightlingsea and a fair trip away from the sailing club)
I find it unlikely a ton of concrete and chain would go for a walk.
And to top it off the previous owner said I was misinformed as it didn't need to come out of the water in the first place since a number of components were quite recent.
How hard can it be? Really!! Rant pt.1 over.
