What is the one thing other boats do that bug you?

fisherman said:
I remember reading about a chap cruising about the Pacific. He was moored stern to amongst a lot of other boats, and a French yacht was seen bearing down on them before a very stiff breeze. Gradually everyone settled down to watch the action. The yacht carried on with seemingly no preparation being made for the inevitable mayhem, then at the very last moment she rounded up smartly, dropped the anchor and sails in very short order, glided smoothly into the berth and lassooed the bollards.
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Must have been watching to many John Wayne Westerns!
 
KAM said:
Motoring when there is a perfect wind for sailing.
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Is that right? Then again you don't know why someone is motoring. My son and I were motoring in Chichester Harbour last week but then couldn't get the genoa to unfurl so we just had a look around whilst motoring since we hadn't been on CH before. By the time we messed around with the genoa we needed to get back to our swinging mooring before the water disappeared.

A couple of years ago we motored all the way from Holyhead to Conwy. Started off northwards into the wind and didn't want to start tacking as we would have missed the Conwy Marina opening times. Turned through 90 degree eastward to go along north of Anglesey and wind still against us. Turned south-east and again wind against us. Tried putting main up a few times and it just flapped about each time.
 
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