Yacht "NO BERTHING" Kirkcudbright

[nicho]

Many years ago, when Yarmouth was a harbour, and not a marina, it was jam packed full on a Bank Holiday weekend, with boats rafted up to some six or seven deep. Now Bryn, the Harbourmaster back then, did his best to raft yacht against yacht, and mobo against mobo. However, we returned from a dinghy trip up the river, to find a yacht rafted against our Sealine S37 mobo - no problem it was well fendered. I nodded towards the skipper who proceeded to say "......I don't know how I'm going to tell my friends I've been rafted next to a stinkpot". "Don't worry mate" I replied, "you're about as welcome as a genital rash"
"God" he replied "that's funny, care to join me for a drink?!" Turned out to be a great chap, and we had an enjoyable evening. Anybody on here?

 

[Earendil-uk]

Whats rafting up ?

 

[[2068]]

What an unpleasant, and gratuitously insulting post.

Really?

 

[tyce]

No reason why you couldn't leave her on the pontoon at Kirkcudbright for a couple of days, and it's only a tenner a night. There are no drying visitor moorings, but you could ask Peter the harbourmaster (01557 331135) and/or contact the sailing club (kirkcudbrightsc@yahoo.co.uk) to ask if anyone will be away and could lend you one.

Failing that, you could try Kippford, which is the next river along. That's all drying. No official visitor berths but either Andy at Kippford Slipway (01556 620249) or the Solway YC (http://www.thesyc.com/committee.htm) may be able to sort you out with something.

Thanks for info, very useful.

 

[Romeo]

I love a story with a happy ending.

 

[skodster]

I don't normally read every post in a thread but that was a good one!

'Well-dones' all round and I just loved the happy ever after....

 

[Tidewaiter2]

I don't normally read every post in a thread but that was a good one!

'Well-dones' all round and I just loved the happy ever after....

OK, they are both Prince Charmings, BUT, Which one of the dwarves was Grumpy then?

 

[BruceDanforth]

It is more frequent that I have encountered people saying that we are welcome alongside but they will be leaving at dawn. They then invariably go out drinking and when departing at dawn we notice that they are all fast asleep snoring and farting the booze off....

 

[Koeketiene]

It is more frequent that I have encountered people saying that we are welcome alongside but they will be leaving at dawn. They then invariably go out drinking and when departing at dawn we notice that they are all fast asleep snoring and farting the booze off....

Been in a similar situation several times.
Being the kindhearted person that I am, I always make a point of waking them up before we leave (knocking on the hull till someone shows).
I mean, you wouldn't want to miss a favourable tide just because you didn't hear the alarm...