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Every time we have flooding and winds here yacht tenders get wrecked. Not because of the conditions, particularly, but because the owners just leave them at risk.
Look at the landings on our moorings. The Pioneer belongs to someone from London who comes here once a year (I must say it has survived remarkably well over the years. Very tough boat) but the dinghy and canoe will not survive this treatment for long and the Sport tender will be wrecked, as they have a thin skin over foam. Our lake bed is all rocks.

The little white tender on the top of the bank, in the second shot, is from Feckless. Well out of the way.
Patriot and Feckless (left and right) in the last shot.

And No, I am not about to start breaking my back saving these people from themselves.

 

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Our tender is way above high tide level, except during that flood 2 years ago but that's not going to happen again soon, fingers crossed.

It looks like I may have a dryish not too windy W/E to pay a visit this W/E, the first in far too long. Cold I can cope with, it's just rained and blown for ever.
 

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Hmmm
Tomorrow going to help a friend sort out his boat which has broken it's mooring.
Boat's undamaged apparently.
Unfortunately, despite my advice, he bought and fitted new strops about 6 months ago two nylon (good) strops with plastic pipe over then (bad) and a 3 foot length of chain at the mooring buoy end (bad).
I looked before Xmas and the chain had bunched up and become link-bound around the riser chain. It was too rough to do anything about it then so I was going to suggest we do something with them when the weather improved. However the weather hasn't improved and he's broken 4 ribs.
 

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that video has given me an idea for my retirement job.

Dinghy Rescue Services (Windermere) Ltd. For only £25 per year, our highly trained and experienced personnel will recover your dinghy and re-attach it to your boat, every time the dinghy floats away (Subject to a service charge of £50 for every actual recovery, mate).

All recoveries will be recorded in high definition video by our associated highly trained and experienced photographic team, Lakesailer Opticals Inc. (An additional charge of £50 per video will be levied for this service).


What do you reckon Lakey ? Could this keep us in pin money ? Would we earn enough to get proper qualifications from e.g. Hot****Sailing (Dover) ?
 

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I think the commute will kill you.

It's an idea I have had, but the warden checks all moorings ( a quick visual) on a weekly basis anyway, and you'd need to have insurance to cover your mistakes which would make the insurers happy but soak up your profits. :D
 
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