Kilter
Well-Known Member
Just back from a weekend at sunny Conwy; time spent mainly on the mooring catching up with some maintenance, which gave me a chance to observe what was going on on the river. Our mooring is close to the Conwy Marina entrance so we get a good view up and down the river.
First observation is how much more busy the river is these days, heck of a lot more boats and in particular mobos, especially since Windemere went slow.
Second observation was how polite and considerate the vast majority of both Raggies and Mobos are. Of the larger 30'+ boats saw only one yacht way to close to the parked ones and only one 45'ish mobo pull a big wave through the moorings.
Third Observation is that of the smaller boats all the yachts behaved themselves nicely while most mobos did but a number of smaller speedboats, mainly driven by young males, were passing too close and too fast. One nearly hit us when he was shifted sideways by the wash of above mentioned big mobo; he did appologise and agreed that staying further off was better for all of us.
Fourth there are more RIBs about and three of these were pushing the speed limit and pulling big waves behind them. One did this the other day when I was just launching our work RIB and darn near dumped me back on the trailer...that raised my pulse rate!
Fifth there's loads of PWCs around the river now and it's far easier to say I saw perhaps half a dozen being driven respectfully while all the rest behaved in varying degrees of sloppiness through to downright stupidity and aggression! HM says they are becoming a major nuisance and are doing all they can. They ask that anyone behaving badly should be reported to them at the time and they'll respond at once.
Finally there must be some parents on the river who don't want to keep their children given that i saw some quite powerful boats and PWCs being driven by children as young as 10 and saw 3 & 4 teenagers at a time on PWCs. HM stopped one PWC with four up on it.
Seems to be a lack of respect, knowledge, skill and sense (I'd say common sense but it aint that common and often aint that sensible either /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) amongst the latter groups.. I do feel for those that use their machines properly as it must be horrible to hear the rants abou their bretheren and beiong tarred with the same brush by default!
A BIG thanks to all those who were so pleasant and friendly and handling their boats of whatever persuasion so well!
Robin
First observation is how much more busy the river is these days, heck of a lot more boats and in particular mobos, especially since Windemere went slow.
Second observation was how polite and considerate the vast majority of both Raggies and Mobos are. Of the larger 30'+ boats saw only one yacht way to close to the parked ones and only one 45'ish mobo pull a big wave through the moorings.
Third Observation is that of the smaller boats all the yachts behaved themselves nicely while most mobos did but a number of smaller speedboats, mainly driven by young males, were passing too close and too fast. One nearly hit us when he was shifted sideways by the wash of above mentioned big mobo; he did appologise and agreed that staying further off was better for all of us.
Fourth there are more RIBs about and three of these were pushing the speed limit and pulling big waves behind them. One did this the other day when I was just launching our work RIB and darn near dumped me back on the trailer...that raised my pulse rate!
Fifth there's loads of PWCs around the river now and it's far easier to say I saw perhaps half a dozen being driven respectfully while all the rest behaved in varying degrees of sloppiness through to downright stupidity and aggression! HM says they are becoming a major nuisance and are doing all they can. They ask that anyone behaving badly should be reported to them at the time and they'll respond at once.
Finally there must be some parents on the river who don't want to keep their children given that i saw some quite powerful boats and PWCs being driven by children as young as 10 and saw 3 & 4 teenagers at a time on PWCs. HM stopped one PWC with four up on it.
Seems to be a lack of respect, knowledge, skill and sense (I'd say common sense but it aint that common and often aint that sensible either /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) amongst the latter groups.. I do feel for those that use their machines properly as it must be horrible to hear the rants abou their bretheren and beiong tarred with the same brush by default!
A BIG thanks to all those who were so pleasant and friendly and handling their boats of whatever persuasion so well!
Robin
