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BetweenBoats

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Whoever clattered into the port side stern quarter of my boat, in Cowes Yacht Haven this afternoon leaving me with an expensive repair bill... I don't like you very much.

Seriously, this seems to happen too often. What's the solution? Impossible spot to fender and clearly hit at a good rate of knots.
 
Typically, the marina is less than interested. On closer inspection - hit hard by the pointy snub of a sailboat hull. Hard enough to buckel the fender strip and split 6 inches of grp :(
 
Perhaps a thread on Scuttlebutt inviting anyone who may have seen the boat, or perhaps the incident to let you know.

After all many on there are swift enough to condemn motor boaters at the slightest surface ripple.
 
harstonwood said:
Sorry .....how can you positively confirm the type of vessel?
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No need to be sorry. You seem offended by my post. Let me share my logic...

1. The boat was hit hard. Hard enough to split the GRP and push the fender strip into the wide crack from the impact

2. The damage suggest it was hit by something pointy - bow first. The depth of fissure and fender strip damage is not consistent with a boat bumping with their stern.

3. It was hit by a boat with a snub nosed, vertical bow - consistent with those on a sailing boat. If it had been a motor boat with a raked bow, the pulpit would have also done considerable damage to my boat, particularly given the extent of the damage to the stern quarter.

Anyway - I've moved on. Just gonna get the boat lifted and repaired and get on with my boating.
 
BetweenBoats said:
No need to be sorry. You seem offended by my post. Let me share my logic...

1. The boat was hit hard. Hard enough to split the GRP and push the fender strip into the wide crack from the impact

2. The damage suggest it was hit by something pointy - bow first. The depth of fissure and fender strip damage is not consistent with a boat bumping with their stern.

3. It was hit by a boat with a snub nosed, vertical bow - consistent with those on a sailing boat. If it had been a motor boat with a raked bow, the pulpit would have also done considerable damage to my boat, particularly given the extent of the damage to the stern quarter.

Anyway - I've moved on. Just gonna get the boat lifted and repaired and get on with my boating.
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We are in yacht haven tonight, arrived about 3pm , haven't seen any boat bumping, but have seen plenty near misses, a sun sail Raleigh is on this weekend ..................don't want to cast aspersions ............
Pretty bloody poor for not owning up I believe in kama , it will ( eventually ) mean the sly b stard will have his comeuppance , be patient?

How long you here for? Which boat are you on?
 
kanajobe48 said:
We are in yacht haven tonight, arrived about 3pm , haven't seen any boat bumping, but have seen plenty near misses, a sun sail Raleigh is on this weekend ..................don't want to cast aspersions ............
Pretty bloody poor for not owning up I believe in kama , it will ( eventually ) mean the sly b stard will have his comeuppance , be patient��

How long you here for? Which boat are you on?
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We left yesterday morning. Fairline Targa 52 in the North Basin on B1
 
Hi
We arrived yesterday afternoon, so missed you, we watched a sun sail regatta come in, which was interesting,
Hope you get sorted quickly, I think cardinal sin is bashing someone's boat and not owning up!
 
seastoke said:
cause at that time most mobo owners will be getting pissed
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Oi...by that time of day all us stink potters are so rat arsed we are totally incapable of crawling orf our white leather sofas...let alone actually moving anything anywhere.....Anyway we are far more interested in the half dozen bikini clad girls we keep aboard. Do please keep up :)
 
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