Temperature in The Solent

[dom]

At w/e sailing on port tack - junior on helm - myself below. Sports dinghy on starboard and clearly behind screams at us & junior tacks. Sports dinghy could not point as high so fell into windshadow screaming and shouting and almost stopped. I then saw three other boats approaching us on port - oops it was a club race. I depowered and waved them all through.

Sports dinghy now in fourth place tacked onto port for the mark - us directly upwind of him. At this point following some more chioice words I did something a bit hostile i.e tack back onto my original port course still blanketing him. And all he had to do was wave us through. February's near empty waters is surely a bit early for all of this?

To get to the point for cases like this would it be possible to buy an inflatable /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Just like those inflatable dan buoy's So much better than swearing

 

[davel]

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And all he had to do was wave us through. February's near empty waters is surely a bit early for all of this?

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And I guess all you had to do was keep out of the way of the race. As you say waters are empty in Feb so plenty of room in the Solent.

Still, I'm sure you enjoyed yourself. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[gardenshed]

so a starboard tack boat makes such a fuss that to keep clear of him, you (or your son) fell pressured into unnecessarily tacking, you tack and finish up blanketing his wind and he loses 3 places. He then tacks off and so do you, to go in your original direction. oops, he's still stuck.

My reading is that his aggressive yelling rather than just avoiding you has cost him 3 places. Being an ass*ole with rights doesn't get you round the course any faster than behaving in a more reasonable manner.

Am I correct in thinking that if he'd been less aggressive you'd have been a touch more considerate to his racing needs?

Like Colregs, it is easy to be right... but wrong. power gives way to sail, but only a fool messes with a big ship. Racing yachts don't have rights over non racers, however if they behave with a little dignity, they will get respect from others and maybe even get around the race course a bit quicker.

nice big empty ocean but still still plenty of opportunity for angst and aggression, even when playing with our toys. Oh well, lets keep it all in perspective.

would I have done the same as you?............. quite possibly!

 

[dom]

To be fair I should really have kept a better lookout myself and I certainly pointed out to my son that he could perhaps have anticipated events a bit better. Also for what it is worth I always try to keep well clear of racing yachts - God knows I have been there enough times.

All that said there was a simple win win situation open to him i.e. wave us through. He converted that into messing up his race and putting a much larger vessel about which was left momentarily floundering around wrecking his wind. Poor racing tactics.

Sad to say but I have noticed that over here in the Solent the level of friction seems to be quite high and increasing. I have not noticed the same in France, Dun Laoghaire where I grew up or indeed other parts of the UK.

 

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To get a result so early in the year is good going, keep it up.

 

[Pinnacle]

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To be fair I should really have kept a better lookout myself and I certainly pointed out to my son that he could perhaps have anticipated events a bit better.

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Nuf said.

 

[bedouin]

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Sad to say but I have noticed that over here in the Solent the level of friction seems to be quite high and increasing. I have not noticed the same in France, Dun Laoghaire where I grew up or indeed other parts of the UK.

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Unfortunately the Solent is pretty crowded these days - and where there are crowds you get "rage" and good manners go by the board.

This also tends to be a vicious circle - I find that having had to put up with inconsiderate b****ds all day I tend to be somewhat less considerate than I might otherwise have been - but that just adds to the overall problem