akyaka
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Sorry should have more properly said minimise. We also have name of boat on buoy.
swinging mooring
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Sorry should have more properly said minimise. We also have name of boat on buoy.
duncan99210
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In much of northern Spain and the Balearics, the common thing is to have 2 dinghys; one taken with the boat and the other, usually a sad half inflated thing or even a dead windsurfer, is left on the buoy to prevent others from using it whilst the owner is away. I take the position that the buoy is owned by someone else and I'd not use it any more than I use their boat just because it happened to be there.
Seajet
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It's not a 'futile gesture' at all, if you'd bother to read my post the idea is to deter the sort of mindless scum who'd get a kick out of setting someones' pride and joy adrift, it's happened nearby and I've heard of it at other places.
It wouldn't stop a determined pro boat thief but then nor will virtually anything else.
It's so easy to padlock a chain it's daft not to, doesn't cost much does it ?!
NormanS
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VicMallows
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I'm just glad that I don't live in your country
So what country are you in? .... no indication in profile.
Seajet
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Mars apparently, where it makes more sense to take meaningless cheap shots than to carry out the simplest of precautions...
GrahamM376
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I didn't say I leave my dinghy on the mooring, I stated that the general idea of people doing so is to stop others using the mooring but, I don't think it's a "miserable" idea. Had to persuade 2 German boats to "go away" when they picked up a friends mooring - a 50+ foot steel boat with a 45ish GRP rafted up on a mooring designed and spaced for a 38ft boat. Do you think that type of behaviour is acceptable? I don't.
Bodach na mara
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No that is Ardfern.
On the subject of uninvited mooring squatters, I had one many years ago when I was young, antisocial and didn't give a ****. I came back from a cruise (of a couple of weeks) to find a strange boat on the mooring at Cardwell Bay and no other moorings vacant. I tied up to the other boat, using my usual old tyres as fenders, found some rope in his lockers and replaced my ropes with his and transfered the mooring line to my own cleat and had a meal. Before leaving the boat, I went back to his boat and secured ny dinghy to it, cast off and drifted downwind clear of the rest of the moorings and dropped his anchor. I then rowed ashore and went home. I did notice that the topsides were a bit mucky from the tyres. Ah well.
I heard from someone who lived near the bay that the owner was not very pleased when he came back to his boat. TWO WEEKS LATER!!!! As if I cared.
claymore
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I am mildly hurt by the assumption that the action of leaving my dinghy on the mooring is done in a rather mean spirit.
I have an inflatable stowed on davits and dont want to tow my rather heavy grp tender, so it stops on the mooring. This in turn, I feel, puts others off the notion of tying up to my mooring. That is the fuller explanation behind my original post.
I have an inflatable stowed on davits and dont want to tow my rather heavy grp tender, so it stops on the mooring. This in turn, I feel, puts others off the notion of tying up to my mooring. That is the fuller explanation behind my original post.
35mm
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Where I am, the harbour master may allocate a leased mooring to a visiting boat when all visitor moorings are taken and pontoons full, if he thinks the mooring holder's boat is away. This is part of the terms and conditions. That's fine if you are away for the weekend or longer on your boat. If you are not away for long, you are supposed to leave a note on your mooring to say so, but I have never known anyone do that. It is very rare that the HM will allocate a leased mooring to a visitor. Some times visitors do pick them up with out asking, and if they do that and are not on board to move it, you have two choices. 1) Move their boat - tow it and tie it up some where else. 2) Tie your boat up some where else. In the case of 1 above, if you damaged their boat during moving it, you would probably liable.