Throwing your toys from your pram

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More and more of the yottie threads are about how someone else has spoilt your fun out on the water. Get real please. What right do any of us have to EXPECT others to act differently when they are going about their own business within the law.

You wouldn't go to the park and EXPECT everyone else to stop playing football, playing with their dogs, playing on the swings etc..... just so you can have a quite read would you? So why expect things to be different when you're out on the water. Jet ski's have as much right screaming around the water as you have sitting waiting for the wind to blow you along a 4 knots. Motor boats have the right to cruise along at 25knots creating waves (incidently mother nature creates waves too). Why must a proportion of you expect to have things your own way and constantly moan about things if you don't.

I bet you're all on the A list for parties. NOT.

Grumpy old sods. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
Had to bite at this one.
With regard to making waves:
The powerboat may be half a mile away (long gone) before his wash hits.
I'm sure the skipper of a craft travelling at 20kts plus has his hands full without worrying about what's happening behind.
And I think some Mobos just don't understand the effect this has.
Take a look behind and see the sailboats bouncing about making abrupt course changes to climb safely over the wash.


Overtaking at close quarters, especially while entering or leaving port.
If there's crew working a sailboat to sort out fenders, lines, sails this can be positively dangerous as they bounce over the wash with little sea room.
It always amazes me how impatient some people can be out of the water.

Don't get me wrong. There's very few sights more exhilarating than a large powerboat at full throttle.
I love the power, the noise, the extravagance.

Just slow down a little when you get close and we'll give yoiu a wave.
 
There's a place for everything. If you have a mobo then why not cruise at 20knts plus - is that not what's it's designed for. However I was more than a little 'upset' shall we say at a speedboat that that went past my mooring in the river at just under planing speed about 20' away with me at the top of the mast!!! Each to his own, but some respect for others surely?
 
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Jet ski's have as much right screaming around the water as you have sitting waiting for the wind to blow you

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Don't bring that attitude with you to the Westcountry where most ports have special areas for PWCs and you enter them in or on anything else at your peril.
There is a fetching photo of Teignmouth Harbourmaster Capt David Platt in today's Western Morning News over a banner headline:
Harbour clamps down on 'jet ski hooligans'

You now have to register your PWC (cost £5) to use one in Teignmouth.
 
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went past my mooring in the river at just under planing speed about 20' away

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I said within the law /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Bother the Law ... what about common sense - or do you want the government to prescribe every eventuality on the water?
A little curtosey goes a long way (on both sides before you have a go at me)
A power boat may be within their rights to blast through an anchorage at 20+ knots and a Sail boat may be within the law when tacking down a narrow channel - but doesn't take into account the effect they are having on others does it.

Meanwhile, Raggies will continue to moan about the insensitive Mobos and the Mobos about the bluddy minded Raggies ... and the law will become tighter and tighter ... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
I don't mind waves - we sail.

Happy to share the water with both fast and slow MoBo's, 300 foot cats doing 40 knots, PWC's, ships, etc, as long as they don't zoom by just outside my windows. And in anchorages we always plan for waves - in some of our anchorages there are fast tourist ferries rushing through keeping to schedules which seems fair enough to me as we like tourists too. Sometimes have to do a bit of bendy driving in the dinghy to ride their wakes but in the end the water is only wet.

Seem to be some that don't like waves, even can't sleep cos of the sound of waves - maybe they made a mistake getting on the water where there usually are waves? But then they start talking as if the only real sailboats are those that can sail around Cape Horn in really big waves and that AWB's are for the pretenders because they can't handle waves /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif.

John /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
It is not about throwing Toys from prams...

...it is about expecting and delivering a bit of common courtesy!

I think that I, like most raggies, tend to get more than slightly hot under the collar when on an otherwise wide almost empty river, a big powerboat blasts past within 50 feet of you. It is fair to say that these oafs are in the minority, BUT sadly, they give ALL stinkies a bad name.

The same can be said for the inconsiderate raggie who is determined to sail his Westerly Centaur up a narrow creek on a dead beat, and the hell with the queue of a dozen boats waiting to grab their chance to pass him.

At the end of the day, the sea is still free (certain that Blair/Brown will find a way to tax leisure sailing before long), and it is there to be enjoyed by all. Whilst those who frequent the South Coast do have the constraints of numbers using the fairly confined approaches to major destinations, I am delighted to say that on the East Coast we do not have that hassle!

So, a bit of thought and consideration by all really would make life more enjoyable.

But, hey, if and when Red diesel finally goes, will the big powerboats be able to afford to go flat out?? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Re: It is not about throwing Toys from prams...

Hey - I agree with you. Just seems some are ready to slag every other water user off just because of one incident.

If I only cursed once a day about someones' driving I'd be cursing a lot less. But it seems some raggies have their whole weekend ruined because of a single incident. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I suppose if that's their temperament then it's them who are the losers??
 
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