Why just me or do these things happen to you?

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After an uneventful days sailing we went into a beautiful and peaceful Cala (small bay in Spain) to anchor for the night. It was well protected, quiet with only one or two other yachts.

We just got the anchor down and out comes Mr Pedro on his donkey (actually a huge rib with 68 outboards on the back) and says we were welcome to stay there BUT... they were filming a film and there would be helicopters, speedboats causing swell and loud noises all night. If we wanted we could be extra's!

So thank you very much but the Cala further up the coast looks far more inviting.

Why always me or do these things happen to someone else.

This year we have been enclosed by fog, the benign weather forecast we had turned into a 38 knt wind, and now kicked in the Cala's.
 
You silly sausage..

That " Extras " job probably involved sitting on some Gin Palace
and being drapped with nubile young senoritas whilst sipping a Martini
 
Not just you : i anchored in falmouth around 14:00 , HM was alongside before the anchor hit the dirt , collecting his money , i go ashore around 17:00 to do a weeks laundry and on the way out he says we have to move at 18:00 as shipping movements ....tugs .... Blah blah blah , so i up sticks and move onto an empty HM. Mooring whilst grumbling about jumped up little twonk with a badge.
Settle in to eat dinner and shipping movements were late finishing maybe 21:00 so just turned in for the night , next morning around 08:30 same jumped up, badge wearing little plonker is knocking on the side the boat saying i have to move as not paid for a mooring !! ... Needless to say i told him politely i had no intentions of moving quickly, got up took the dog ashore and ignored him for the rest of the day and left when i was good and ready .... Service with a smile !
 
Got caught up in the shoot of a "Pirates of the Caribbean" episode. We were anchored in Honeymoon Bay (Druif Bay), USVI, when an extremely aggressive guy in a speedboat stormed up and told me to 'get the f**k out you a**hole, you're on our set'. We moved to nearby Flamingo Bay, which was not surprisingly rather crowded. All the yachts that are normally moored in Honeymoon Bay had been moved there, and their moorings sunk (!). They had been told it was just for the day but apparently the temperamental Johnny Depp hadn't shown up, and they'd all been stuck there for four days waiting.

We spent the evening with the locals plotting an unscripted pirate sacking of the set, but got too plastered to put it into operation.

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A few years ago we arrived at Calais from Dunkerque and picked up a mooring buoy. Within a few minutes the Douanes arrived to inspect our papers, but asked whether we would agree to a film crew coming aboard to film the process. We agreed.

The film crew clearly had no idea about boats, the cameraman grabbing hold of our horseshoe buoy to heave himself out of a RIB, with camera on shoulder. Only very quick action from a Douanier saved him and his camera from an early bath. Three Douaniers came aboard with a film crew of three. It took them hours, during which the lock gate and bridge opened and I entered with them aboard. The cameraman was wearing full waterproof gear and lifejacket and fainted with the heat during his time below, requiring minor first aid on deck.

The search of the boat was farcical and clearly only intended for a TV audience. Hours later they left, having caused us a great deal of amusement, which they did not understand.
 
vyv_cox said:
A few years ago we arrived at Calais from Dunkerque and picked up a mooring buoy. Within a few minutes the Douanes arrived to inspect our papers, but asked whether we would agree to a film crew coming aboard to film the process. We agreed.

The film crew clearly had no idea about boats, the cameraman grabbing hold of our horseshoe buoy to heave himself out of a RIB, with camera on shoulder. Only very quick action from a Douanier saved him and his camera from an early bath. Three Douaniers came aboard with a film crew of three. It took them hours, during which the lock gate and bridge opened and I entered with them aboard. The cameraman was wearing full waterproof gear and lifejacket and fainted with the heat during his time below, requiring minor first aid on deck.

The search of the boat was farcical and clearly only intended for a TV audience. Hours later they left, having caused us a great deal of amusement, which they did not understand.
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Wonderful story!
 
We anchored in Hurst Roads on a summer's evening prior to an early morning start for a Channel crossing. Just before midnight, the rumble of heavy diesel engines roused us from our early slumbers. Staggering out on deck, steamer-scaring lantern in hand, I could see large shapes barely illuminated by dimmed navigation lights passing through the anchorage. Then the mortar fire from the beach was answered by heavy machine gun fire as the Marines/SBS commenced their night manoeuvres with an assault on Hurst Spit. By 3 am, peace was restored to the remnants of the night and we gratefully slept for 90 minutes prior to setting off down the Needles Channel. Clearly the odd sleepless night and fatigue-racked passage is one of the costs of maintaining national security.
 
A friend who was "Consultant" for Corrie asked if Chiron could be used in the background for an episode.
It was the one where some bloke was pretending to get drowned in the Lake and actually did drown himself.
They didn't use the boat though, bit of a non-event really.
 
I gather I might appear in the background of a new "fly on the wall" documentary they were shooting in resort at the end of the season. It was a snow based remake of that awful "Sun, sea and suspicious parents" where they get the parents along to observe the youngsters' first solo holiday. Don't think it will be quite a successful though as none of the girls in resort would have anything to do with them.

Frankly they were a right pain in the backside, crashing all of the end of season parties with a film crew and acting like they owned the place.
 
Made a good decision in moving on Mark.
I used to do props and have worked on a number of what you would call, big budget movies.
It not all that its cracked up to be.
If there was ever a case of ''selling your soul to the devil'' then its working in the film industry.
 
We did move on and anchored for a peaceful night.
Leaving the next morning we had been going ten minutes when we saw old friends of ours anchored. Went to say hello and ended up staying the day off a secluded beach.
The beach turned out to be a very friendly hippy comune. They must have been poor as no one could afford clothes!
Watching people practise yoga and martial arts naked is not a pretty sight.
They even had a bar... The owner said .. My bar, my prices, don't expect glasses and certainly don't expect to be waited upon.
Kind of liked the place!
 
A few years ago in the Round The Island race we were approaching Norris towards the finish when one of the crew decided that it would be a really good idea to relieve himself off the back of the boat. We happened to be parallel to one of the Ellen Macarthur cancer charity boats at the time and it just happened that Ellen herself had just climbed on board from a rib to do a TV interview. Our bold crewmember was fairly clearly revealed in the background to the shot. Despite our encouragement, he never did go and ask the TV crew for payment or Ellen for an autograph.
 
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