What's to stop someone undoing your ropes and letting your boat float away?

[Adetheheat]

Weird thing to consider though. Who did you piss off?

Paranoia on my part!

 

[ryanroberts]

Had it happen while narrowboating - no harm done on a canal but above a bridge on the Thames is a little less fun

 

[Fr J Hackett]

More likely to happen to your dinghy, happened to me twice, once in Baltimore and once in Tresco along with two others I used someone else’s dinghy to retrieve them as in both cases they hadn’t drifted far, I put it down to someone being careless in sorting their own dinghy out from a large number of dinghies. After that I made up a long plastic coated wire strop and padlocked the dinghy to the mooring cleat or ring, never happened again.

 

[Poignard]

More likely to happen to your dinghy, happened to me twice, once in Baltimore and once in Tresco along with two others I used someone else’s dinghy to retrieve them as in both cases they hadn’t drifted far, I put it down to someone being careless in sorting their own dinghy out from a large number of dinghies. After that I made up a long plastic coated wire strop and padlocked the dinghy to the mooring cleat or ring, never happened again.

Well I'm glad to see it was a long strop. Just the sort of consideration for his fellow man that I would expect to see practised by a man-of-the-cloth.

Few things more annoying than selfish prats who secure their tenders to public landing stages with a short painter, forcing later arrivals to have to clamber over them to get ashore.

 

[roaringgirl]

What's to stop someone setting fire to your car when it's parked on the street?

 

[Poignard]

What's to stop someone setting fire to your car when it's parked on the street?

If it's a Bouba car it might set fire to itself.

 

[shanemax]

It happened at Manningtree on the Stour, in Essex. Someone cut the mooring ropes on about 10 boats and they floated off on the ebb. This was a few years ago. I was in the river at the time. They were collecting beached and floating boats all day.
Perhaps someone at the club has more details.

 

[Elessar]

It's a known problem on the inland waterways, where moorings are often close to town centres, pubs etc, and tow paths often form part of drunken routes home. I've seen two narrow boaters tie their boats together bow to stern on the opposite side from the towpath, so that if either one is maliciously cast adrift they'll stay in place tied to the other.

Agreed. When I was on a towpath on the Thames I always put my anchor down. Then I wouldn’t go that far. Happened a lot near reading when I was there.

 

[DangerousPirate]

It happened at Manningtree on the Stour, in Essex. Someone cut the mooring ropes on about 10 boats and they floated off on the ebb. This was a few years ago. I was in the river at the time. They were collecting beached and floating boats all day.
Perhaps someone at the club has more details.

Did they catch the culprit? Why did he do that?

 

[Kelpie]

Well I'm glad to see it was a long strop. Just the sort of consideration for his fellow man that I would expect to see practised by a man-of-the-cloth.

Few things more annoying than selfish prats who secure their tenders to public landing stages with a short painter, forcing later arrivals to have to clamber over them to get ashore.

Almost as bad as people leaving their outboards lifted.

 

[trevbouy]

Similar thing happened to me on a canal boating holiday. Moored up just below the upper pound and above first lock. Went to sleep with window overlooking bank. Woke up with window looking at side of bank and boat on the bottom all lines untied. Local yobs had opened pound sluice and first lock and then gravity did the rest. Canal trust came and closed all up, then started pumping from somewhere but it took 6 hours before we floated again.