Where do you park a 40ft boat?

[snooks]

Ok, say you own a 40 ft boat and you find a space approx 80 ft long in a marina....Where do you moor?
At the end closest or furthest from the entrance?















How about in the middle?

 

[Searush]

Do they also have a BMW parked across 4 spaces too?

I would simply raft up alongside with the oldest dirtiest fenders I could drag up out of the bilges.

 

[Simondjuk]

Maybe someone moved a little boat from in front of it.

 

[mainsail1]

It looks like early or late in the season with lots of other spaces. Give the guy a break!

 

[Sailfree]

Caption

Empty Cowes Yacht Haven agrees prices are too high!

 

[Pinnacle]

Just to be clear............that is Not my boat!

 

[A1Sailor]

I was asked to secure the boat to piles in Cowes on my Coastal Skipper exam. So I picked a reasonably big empty space and got on with briefing the crew to get on with it. As we approached the first pile the examiner, a very nice chap called Robin Sjoberg, very kindly pointed out that it wasn't a good idea to block the entrance to the (then) National Sailing Centre!
The mitigating circumstance was that it was dark - but I passed...

 

[Skylark]

Ok, say you own a 40 ft boat and you find a space approx 80 ft long in a marina....Where do you moor?
At the end closest or furthest from the entrance?

How about in the middle?

There's no one else around, I don't see your problem

 

[snooks]

It looks like early or late in the season with lots of other spaces. Give the guy a break!

It was taken tonight. Plenty of boats in the other parts of the marina.....

Why give them a break? I always moor to give enough space to whoever might come along after me, no matter wherever or whenever I'm mooring...it's common sense innit?

 

[sailorman]

It was taken tonight. Plenty of boats in the other parts of the marina.....

Why give them a break? I always moor to give enough space to whoever might come along after me, no matter wherever or whenever I'm mooring...it's common sense innit?

The skipper might be very good @ parking in small spaces

 

[xyachtdave]

Blue ensign.....

 

[sailorman]

Must be an Admiral

 

[James_Calvert]

Blue ensign.....

And the qualifying club burgee must be at the masthead...rather than on the signal halyards.

Respect ... they know their bunting tossing!

 

[A1Sailor]

Nice picture. Did you use your flash?

 

[zzyyxx]

Nice picture. Did you use your flash?

I guess we shouldn't download it, flip it and read the boat name?

Answering the OP's question, it depends how long the day had been.

 

[Jamesuk]

I'm sure you have walked down a high street seen a car parked like the boat and thought 'he could have done better' had you been there earlier you may have seen him reversing into the smallest of spaces. It's about seeing the full picture my friend

 

[Tomahawk]

It is possible the pontoon was full of Etchels or similar in front of her (?) when she arrived and they have since been hoisted out?

OTOH, as some folks may have worked out we have a proper boat. And we often get surcharged because of our beam (22 feet). It really does piff me off that people who take up enough space for us to park don't get charged for the place we could have used....

 

[JumbleDuck]

I guess we shouldn't download it, flip it and read the boat name?

I can read "OCÉANIS 411" without flipping, but can't see a legible name anywhere. What have I missed?

 

[Talulah]

The original photo has the name blacked out but they failed to black out the reflection in the water.

 

[Giblets]

Looking on the bright side with parking like that it does leave a nice little slot at his bow for a Leisure 17 to slip into!!!! :encouragement:

Every cloud, etc.........