steve_cronin
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\"...taking a long line to the shore\" as Mr Heikell says
... is rapidly becoming a bit of a liability in some parts.
Picture the scene.
Guiscardo quays and pontoon full by 1300 so anchoring on the north side, the only option. So, joining the company of several other (about six or seven) yachts we anchor "Med Style" with the customary line ashore as we have done before on many occassions over many seasons. The gentle alternating breezes move us all gently one way and then the other, all in perfect formation, just as nature intended!
Late in the afternoon, along comes a German crewed Sunsail charter boat who plonks himself in-between our boat and a Dutch Sunbeam only the charter boat decides to put out TWO stern lines ashore, firmly locking himself into an immoveable moor, thereby taking the Sunbeam within touching distance as the wind blows from the south and us across his hinmd quarter when it blows from the north.
Half an hour later an Italian (there are a few of them around the Ionian at the moment) yacht does another rigid two line moor on the other side of the Sunbeam so he is now being threatened from both sides when for the previous "most of the day" he was moving to the wind with the rest of us.
Wait a minute, you might say, isn't it the most sensible for everyone to moor up with two lines thereby affording the greatest capacity in a known very popular spot? So weren't you and the majority in the wrong and the two late-comers perfectly correct? I would reply that it is better seamanship to assess the newly arrived at ANCHORAGE (NOT mooring) and place yourself in accordance with the existing vessels and their methods of anchoring and not stick an immovable object into a previously perfectly well working system.
Steve Cronin
... is rapidly becoming a bit of a liability in some parts.
Picture the scene.
Guiscardo quays and pontoon full by 1300 so anchoring on the north side, the only option. So, joining the company of several other (about six or seven) yachts we anchor "Med Style" with the customary line ashore as we have done before on many occassions over many seasons. The gentle alternating breezes move us all gently one way and then the other, all in perfect formation, just as nature intended!
Late in the afternoon, along comes a German crewed Sunsail charter boat who plonks himself in-between our boat and a Dutch Sunbeam only the charter boat decides to put out TWO stern lines ashore, firmly locking himself into an immoveable moor, thereby taking the Sunbeam within touching distance as the wind blows from the south and us across his hinmd quarter when it blows from the north.
Half an hour later an Italian (there are a few of them around the Ionian at the moment) yacht does another rigid two line moor on the other side of the Sunbeam so he is now being threatened from both sides when for the previous "most of the day" he was moving to the wind with the rest of us.
Wait a minute, you might say, isn't it the most sensible for everyone to moor up with two lines thereby affording the greatest capacity in a known very popular spot? So weren't you and the majority in the wrong and the two late-comers perfectly correct? I would reply that it is better seamanship to assess the newly arrived at ANCHORAGE (NOT mooring) and place yourself in accordance with the existing vessels and their methods of anchoring and not stick an immovable object into a previously perfectly well working system.
Steve Cronin
