Sunken small yacht, Newton Creek IoW

Anchored at Chalkdock on Saturday.

(Feels slightly churlish to be following the guy around with a camera but the boat appears designed to attract attention and I can't resist sharing gossip.)


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According to Google Maps, it's at the top of Langstone Harbour, by the A27/M3 junction.

Wrong Chalkdock, but thanks for sharing the name. I swore I'd never go there again after a run in with the Harbour Patrol. Knowing it has a name makes it suddenly desirable.


I hope he's paid his harbour dues!

I hope he's got wreck recovery insurance now. (And I hope mine pays out if it's ever my turn.)
 
Anchored at Chalkdock on Saturday.

(Feels slightly churlish to be following the guy around with a camera but the boat appears designed to attract attention and I can't resist sharing gossip.)


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Something just struck me...

I'm pretty relaxed about flag etiquette, and break flag conventions pretty much every time I go out. (I have no way to correctly fly two club burgees.) However, the presence and absence of flags in this case is enough to mildly raise even my heckles.

I suspect one reason we have flag etiquette is so we don't (unintentionally?) annoy each other on the water by making statements.
 
Something just struck me...

I'm pretty relaxed about flag etiquette, and break flag conventions pretty much every time I go out. (I have no way to correctly fly two club burgees.) However, the presence and absence of flags in this case is enough to mildly raise even my heckles.

I suspect one reason we have flag etiquette is so we don't (unintentionally?) annoy each other on the water by making statements.
A colleague was fined for flying the Jolly Roger on his motor boat on the Thames a few decades ago. Seems commonplace now.

We shall be flying the Essex flag if anyone wants to look out for us in the Solent. Q - which side shall we hoist it? The starboard already occupied by two club burgees.
There is plenty of water for everyone
Not in Newtown Creek on Tuesday night there wasn't. Packed to the gunwhales and every type of water user to be seen, particularly the ones that let their young kids zoom around on their own in the tender, scream at the top of their voices, large motor vessels with gennies running. The fun started when it got dark and we relocated to avoid the chav elements, half the boats didn't bother with anchor balls/lights. A few boats had marine life scaring disco lights flashing below the water, wind generators buzzing through the night.

Decision made to avoid Newtown until the schools go back and we cleared off at 0630 to catch the flood back to Hamble.
 
A colleague was fined for flying the Jolly Roger on his motor boat on the Thames a few decades ago. Seems commonplace now.

It wasn't until I started to work with a Spanish guy that I realized the Jolly Roger is genuinely offensive in France and Spain.
 
It wasn't until I started to work with a Spanish guy that I realized the Jolly Roger is genuinely offensive in France and Spain.
Really? I didn't know that. Why? I mean, I imagine the Spanish might have a more negative view of the age of piracy (not that a positive one makes much sense) but I thought the French got just as into it as the English did?
 
Really? I didn't know that. Why? I mean, I imagine the Spanish might have a more negative view of the age of piracy (not that a positive one makes much sense) but I thought the French got just as into it as the English did?

As you say, the Spanish is pretty obvious, once you think about it. As for France... I don't recall, I presume because of Privateers but maybe I've just read too much Patrick O'Brien. Perhaps my memory is just wrong.
 
I'm no expert - nor do I particularly care, but IIRC,
I have no way to correctly fly two club burgees
The senior club (the older, usually*) on top.
We shall be flying the Essex flag if anyone wants to look out for us in the Solent. Q - which side shall we hoist it? The starboard already occupied by two club burgees.
Hoist it to port, as a house flag. We have a Breton flag to port, in honour of Madame's ancestry.

* I can't be bothered to look it up, but would a blue ensign club be senior to a red, regardless of age? Obviously RYS trumps everyone
 
The senior club (the older, usually*) on top.

I have a feeling that's wrong. I have a vague memory that if you have two club burgees one has to go on the mast head - there's no legit alternative.

Academic since I'm not willing to put the senior club on top. I want to put the club I'm physically near on top. Like you I'm not that bothered. Vaguely interested at most.
 
As you say, the Spanish is pretty obvious, once you think about it. As for France... I don't recall, I presume because of Privateers but maybe I've just read too much Patrick O'Brien. Perhaps my memory is just wrong.

In parts of NW Spain, maybe others, our hero Sir Francis Drake is still known as "El Pirato".

I seem to recall a large statue in La Coruna (see what I did there...no offence intended?) to that effect?

Don't know about France.
 
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