Training Ship or Cruise Ship?

Goldie

Goldie

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I have the good fortune to be moored in Fowey on a still clear night, trying to enjoy the tranquility over a night-cap in the cockpit. However......

On buoys about a quarter of a mile away lies T.S. Royalist. Now usually, it’s a pleasure to see her but not so tonight as she’s doing a fair impression of a cruise ship with a film being projected onto her main course (sail). The soundtrack, apart from the town clock chiming, is the only sound to be heard on an otherwise silent night. I can still hear it now at the chart table with hatches closed.

We had a lovely light airs sail up the coast today and arrived here before 1500 having observed porpoise, dolphins and a Minke whale en-route. The same ship motored past us en-route and arrived even earlier with plenty of tide and daylight left - maybe in a hurry to settle down for their evening’s viewing?

In an effort to ask them to turn the volume down I’ve tried VHF by voice and DSC without response.

Sail training Jim? Not as I know it.
 
ridgy said:
Live and let live...probably a memorable occasion for the young people on board.
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If there were rows of seated youngsters riveted to the screen....... it’s like the Marie Celeste on deck! It’s certainly memorable for all the other visitors here. Maybe ‘consideration’ isn’t on the training syllabus these days.
 
"When ah were a lad...." alongside the pontoon on the outside of Visitors Pontoon 3 opposite the Harbour Office a few years ago, we awoke to some unexpected music close by. Clambering into the cockpit, we were 'fronted by a wall of painted aluminium less than 50 feet away. This bugr....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVFZ4QbTBCc

Way, way up above us, a pair of other 'visitors' clad in bathrobes were peering down at us from their balcony. They took to tossing bits of morning toast down into our cockpit.....

They were treated to a Royals' Salute by both of us.....
 
phone the noise officer at the council and tell them to bring their trunks , :encouragement:
people should really not get hung up on sound from other boats ,sound travels over water faster and clearer than land , that is the life of the sea if you want solitude it is better to go where ever that is , enjoy the views the sailing and the company around you and resist wasting time and your precious energy moaning about things that have no consequence , by far life is to short to worry and get the blood pressure rising ,
 
You had it easy, just a couple of hours for a film. We anchored a few days ago in an otherwise deserted bay (from the boat perspective, there were a few building ashore) in the southern Peloponnese, about 150m offshore. At about ten pm, the zorba music kicked off in the nearest taverna. With a sinking heart, I checked through the binos and espied a wedding party underway. It went on until about 3 am. At hearing damaging volume (at least for the guests). We shut the hatches, stuffed our ears with cotton wool, had an extra snifter and slept, uneasily.
And it’s a pretty common happening. Usually we spot the preparations and move if we can but sometime it’s just too late and we’re too tired to do anything about it.
 
duncan99210 said:
You had it easy, just a couple of hours for a film. We anchored a few days ago in an otherwise deserted bay (from the boat perspective, there were a few building ashore) in the southern Peloponnese, about 150m offshore. At about ten pm, the zorba music kicked off in the nearest taverna. With a sinking heart, I checked through the binos and espied a wedding party underway. It went on until about 3 am. At hearing damaging volume (at least for the guests). We shut the hatches, stuffed our ears with cotton wool, had an extra snifter and slept, uneasily.
And it’s a pretty common happening. Usually we spot the preparations and move if we can but sometime it’s just too late and we’re too tired to do anything about it.
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Ah I see that the Brits are doing there usual not in my back yard moan again .... oh wait its not your back yard your in Greece were they really don't bother about people every now and then enjoying themselves without the consideration of the whole bay and the Brits trying to get their beauty sleep at 9 pm I do believe the empire went a long time ago and we can no longer dictate to poor johnny foreigner although we seem to be trying !
 
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