Would you ask permission

[Carmel2]

Before you raft up? And if the owner was not there would you just do it?

 

[duncan99210]

Oh dear - busy again in Aigina is it? We're the only yacht here in Galaxidi!

 

[sailorman]

Before you raft up? And if the owner was not there would you just do it?

yes & yes

 

[Carmel2]

Yes Duncan, 4 deep, it's quite a bit worse than when you were here. We had a chattermaran trying to give it a go, mostly it's the Hun mouthing off at full blast.

 

[Grehan]

There was a long and interesting discussion about rafting etiquette on Scuttlebutt recently . . .
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=281604

 

[Plomong]

Before you raft up? And if the owner was not there would you just do it?

Yes, have always done so if there is someone visible. However, if no one onboard, I just raft up anyway. No crime in that.

The problems start when the raftee (newcomer) does damage to the stationary boat and then sneaks off without leaving his details. Happened me in La Turballe in August. We were asleep when another boat came in and rafted up against us without using any fenders. By the time I got on deck the bolts of his shroud plates had scratched the gelcoat along 2 meters of the topsides just below the toerail. He had just come in to let off crew so was leaving by the time I got on deck, and paid no attention to my calls to come back and pay for the damage. Name obscured by dinghy on the transom, reg number not known, etc etc. !!!!

 

[Fantasie 19]

yes & yes

+1

 

[maby]

yes, and prefer not to - if only for my own benefit - do you really want to run the risk of being woken at three in the morning by someone trying to catch the early tide?

 

[Carmel2]

I am talking about rafting up fore and aft and putting your anchor out. You're sitting in the cockpit when some mother f**ker just jumps on board and starts to tie up.

 

[RichardS]

I am talking about rafting up fore and aft and putting your anchor out. You're sitting in the cockpit when some mother f**ker just jumps on board and starts to tie up.

You're talking about rafting up to a stranger's boat which is at anchor without permission?

I've never heard of that before - surely that's illegal or something!

Richard

 

[rickym]

I would not expect anyone to raft to me while at anchor not without express permission!

 

[little_roundtop]

What?!

Anyone trying to raft up to us whilst at anchor would get not only the sharp end of SWMBOs tongue (that has reduced grown men to jelly) but they'd get the business end of my boot as well.

That said, I've never seen this attempted - except by Italians who have chartered a number of yachts and clearly know each other. In Tomb Bay one year we had five yachts raft up next to us with only two anchors down. Yes of course we moved elsewhere!