Why dont you wave at Mobos ?

Just proof that Mobos can't see very well! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
What did they used to say 'wait till you see the whites of their eyes before you fire' /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Pete

Yours is a big white flybridge jobbie, therefore its a 'stinkpot', so you dont get waved at.

Mine's a pile of manky wood, I get waves back about 75% of the time.
 
Pete

I know what you mean, there is a right miserable bunch out there on the water. I always establish eye contact, then give a wink of my left eye /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif. Sorry to have to say, I never seem to get a response! Miserable gits!
 
Try puckering up your lips at the same time as the wink.........





I am sure you will get a response then! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
We usually wave at most boats, sail or power, that pass within a suitable distance - unless they are going too fast to see. Not so much in the Solent, though - just too many boats. Suppose it's the same as on the motorbike. Bikers wave/nod at each other - except in the SE cos there are just too damn many of us and you have to watch the road.

The other half will wave/smile at any boat with females on board - and he seems to attract waves/smiles/at least one memorable flash (yes really!).

But we aren't English (Scottish and Australian), so maybe we are allowed to be a bit frendlier to strangers :-)
 
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Well, I waved at the kind MoBo off Polkerris the other week. He crawled towards us from astern as we were just transferring 4 and 6 year old daughters from dinghy to mothership, and then let rip with both engines when he was about 20 feet behind us.
Oh how I waved to him, but he can't have seen me because he didn't wave back.
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A subtle nod of the head is always returned with an imperceptible raising of an eyebrow, I find.

Mrs Lakesailor and I were discussing the friendliness of the natives in the Lakes the other day.
We've found (land-based observations) that the further North you go the less friendly the indiginents are.

In Penrith and Keswick or around Ullswater/ Bassenthwaite/Derwent Water they can be very difficult to get a response from.

Windermere/ Bowness/ Coniston locals are much more friendly.

Pass further South towards Ulverston/Dalton you have to beat them off with a stick.

So generalisations about people on boats, when you don't know where they are from, are meaningless. The surly couple on the MOBO may seem very friendly where they come from.
 
I dipped my ensign to a RN frigate off Alderney and they ignored me. I called them on the VHF to ask why, and they were very brusque with me... I got the impression they don't do ensign dipping any more!
 
My family go back a couple of hundred years that I know of in the Lake District, but as I was born in Yorkshire I find I prefer the Red Light District...otherwise known as Hawes /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Tim
 
Perhaps the crowded waters of the Solent are the cause of the problem?
In he same way that one is more inclined to nod a hello on a country ramble rather than do so on a busy street?

We cruise the uncrowded west coast of ireland where to meet another boat is a rarity - not alone do we wave but we sometimes call each other on VHF to swop local info

boating does bring something friendly out in us that normally we ignore - chrusty is being too crusty if you ask me
 
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Perhaps the crowded waters of the Solent are the cause of the problem?
In he same way that one is more inclined to nod a hello on a country ramble rather than do so on a busy street?

We cruise the uncrowded west coast of ireland where to meet another boat is a rarity - not alone do we wave but we sometimes call each other on VHF to swop local info

boating does bring something friendly out in us that normally we ignore - chrusty is being too crusty if you ask me

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Well I don't know, I avoid the place like the plague! Like yourself I sail in more peaceful waters, and I like it that way, still don't wave at anybody though!

Regards, Chrusty old Chrusty! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I once saw a TV documentary study on the size of a community.

In a small village a well dressed person lay down in the road pretending to have collapsed - they were approached with concern and offers to assist with minutes.

The same person did the same in oxford Street London and was ignored for over half an hour.

That study found that with a population of 600 or less most people acknowledged each other as they passed above 600 mostly people ignore each other unless they know the other person.

Where I boat in the bristol Channel more boats wave to each other than is the case in the crpwded Solent.Yet when I have been in the Solent in bad weather with few boats about be they sail or Mobo - there are more waves as if acknowledging the presence of the other as part of a selective group.

So My two pence worth is that its all down to the ability to see each other as part of a selective group - eg make of car, make of boat, together when few would brave the weather, part of a club.
However that club cannot be too big
 
I wave at most others on the water, except for the occasions when I havent got a hand spare, such as when I am hanging on to the boat with one hand and the helm with the other as I am rocking in the wake /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif, on those occasions I might attempt a wave, but might not have the full compliment of digits available /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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