Speed limit in anchorages

[LittleSister]

It’s a tiny bay and a lot of sea behind it. Why zoom around the bay and annoy anchored boats when you can use the space behind it?

I get the impression they prefer sheltered water, and close to the beach.

Some years ago I was being bothered by some water skiers going round and round and round the small group of anchored boats in a West Country anchorage. They were passing very close to my boat, the last in a line, each lap. I started assembling a series of fenders on a line that I was hoping to stream out towards the shore to keep them at distance from me, and perhaps even almost close the gap between me and the shore. Before I'd finished construction of my cunning patent device, though, they'd finally cleared off

 

[[2068]]

So you respond tell me its rubbish and Im right? 900 yards vs 1000 yards. Id write to the MOD and complain the Navy is shite and its no wonder we lost the empire.

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I previously wrote an email to QHM about one of their flyers that showed the small boat channel going across a right load of rocks.
I was fully expecting a reply along the lines of "Away with ye, pathetic mortal".
What I actually got was a reply that was along the lines of "Errm, we have screwed up, and we will ask the Hydrographic Office to update it".


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[PilotWolf]

Having watched a navy vessel steam straight into a
live army range. not answering calls on 16 or 2182 and I think other channels frequencies there maybe some issues at times

W.

 

[julians]

I don't know the particular place in question, and it sounds like these guys were in the wrong in this Instance, but to answer the question of why dont they bugger off to the vast sea behind the anchorage, it's because just like you value the super flat water for anchoring in, so do they for wakeboarding/skiing etc. So the reason they don't go further out is the same reason you don't Anchor further out, it's not as sheltered.

 

[Seastoke]

I get the impression they prefer sheltered water, and close to the beach.

Some years ago I was being bothered by some water skiers going round and round and round the small group of anchored boats in a West Country anchorage. They were passing very close to my boat, the last in a line, each lap. I started assembling a series of fenders on a line that I was hoping to stream out towards the shore to keep them at distance from me, and perhaps even almost close the gap between me and the shore. Before I'd finished construction of my cunning patent device, though, they'd finally cleared off

That really is so wrong .

 

[[2068]]

I don't know the particular place in question, and it sounds like these guys were in the wrong in this Instance, but to answer the question of why dont they bugger off to the vast sea behind the anchorage, it's because just like you value the super flat water for anchoring in, so do they for wakeboarding/skiing etc. So the reason they don't go further out is the same reason you don't Anchor further out, it's not as sheltered.

if it's super flat in Whiteclif Bay, it's also likely to be super flat just further South in Sandown Bay as well.
Main difference is that in Whitecliff Bay, there is a cafe on the beach and the view is better.

 

[Baddox]

That diagram is a bit rubbish - the limit is 1/2 a mile, not 1000 yards.

But 1 nautical mile = 2025yards...

 

[Birdseye]

Am I the only person who thinks there should be a speed limit and a no wake rule in anchorages, as exists nearly everywhere in the Med? A (rarely) flat calm Whitecliff Bay on the eastern side of IOW today was ruined by one RIB waterskiing back and forward through the moored boats, creating noise and endless wash. It's the same in Priory Bay next door, if not worse.

What makes you think that the mainly young men doing such things would take any notice of a speed limit, any more than they do of the covid rules, or publ;ic f drunkenness, or dropping rubbish or shouting obscenities ? Rules without enforcement are pointless.

 

[paradave]

What makes you think that the mainly young men doing such things would take any notice of a speed limit, any more than they do of the covid rules, or publ;ic f drunkenness, or dropping rubbish or shouting obscenities ? Rules without enforcement are pointless.

True but you can’t begin to enforce without a rule in the first place.

 

[[2068]]

But 1 nautical mile = 2025yards...

The diagram is not great, that lower limit is in the wrong place.
It also doesn’t follow the MLWS line at all around Ryde Sands.

Almost everybody ignores that speed limit anyway - it's not enforced unless you annoy the Harbour Master or do something daft

 

[[2068]]

All peaceful today.

There were a few jet skis, all passing at a safe distance away from the anchored boats.