Yacht shrouds / Halyards that clank against the mast all night

[Miss_DANKA]

The wind blew up a little over the weekend and we were berthed along side a Yacht with loose Halyards that clanked all night.

The selfish gits had abandoned it and gone ashore for the night .

what do you do ?

go and tighten it up at 0200 hrs /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

wait until 0530 when they arrive and say something /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

or cut the bloody halyard , it looked too long anyway and they could always knot it back together. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[fireball]

flamin annoying ain't it!

Take some leaflets of sailing school courses and leave one in their cockpit ....

 

[Miss_DANKA]

If one of yours became loose would you object to someone getting on your boat with appropriate shoes tightening it ?

If one of my covers was loose I would be very pleased for someone to make-fast.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

I actually like the sound. Its one of the "sounds of the sea" for me.

 

[fireball]

I would like to think that if anyone noticed my halyards frapping or anything wrong with my boat they would be decent enough to temporarily fix it. As long as they are quiet - I may be down below having a snooze! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Just tie them out to the shrouds with a light bit of line. They couldn't object to that, could they?

They probably will actually because they won't notice and try haul up the main and get everything all caught up.

 

[fireball]

Well if they are too stupid to sight the halyards before hoisting ....

Ah - those are generally the ones who leave their halyards frapping !

 

[Divemaster1]

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......- I may be down below having a snooze!

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How can one sleep with that sound ... if it sounds bad in the marine, I'd thought it would be even worse down below in the boat..

 

[michael_w]

Without any hesitation I'd frap the halyards to the shrouds preferably with something noticeable like the offender's mooring line or mainsheet. Just tightening them isn't enough.

Just bad manners, like walking through someone's cockpit whilst rafted up.

 

[fireball]

You'd be supprised what I can sleep through .... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

but I do admit - I don't like my halyards clanging ... nor my topping lift howling - but to resolve the second I get a resolve for the first as I wrap the main halyard around the topping lift 3 times - stops it vibrating!

 

[Dave_Snelson]

The sound I really don\'t like...

...is wind gennies wooshing all the time in high wind. Peeps need to tie 'em up with a bungie or summat.

 

[sailorman]

Frap them with loadsa 1/2 hitches /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Stocky_Helm]

I'd just go over and tie them up same as I would with flapping covers or squeeking fenders/rubbing creaking ropes....dogs barking...babies crying...stereo thumping...trees rustling...

 

[ported0]

could be worse, like when the 65 year old skipper took a leak at 3 am over the side of the boat.... i thought it was never going to stop /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[sailorman]

normally its a job to even start @ that age /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[jonathankent]

its one of those noises that just annoys... like the sound of fenders rubbing the hull.....aaarrrgghh! spent a night in fowey with a f6 blowing through the night... first part not a problem, but at about 2am the tide turned and we were constantly being blown/pushed on to the pontoon... every few seconds was the bang, then the squeak, then the mooring ropes squeaking..... what a noise!

Back to your post, i would not mind anyone trying to tie them off so as not to make a noise... it annoys me aswell so they could actually be helping.

 

[DavidJ]

I have on several occasions stepped on board and wrapped a bit of insulating tape around the mast. Simple to do at 2am, effective and gives a message as well.

 

[tazzle]

Tsk. Several years ago during my divorce I found myself spending several months living on my last boat.

As I slipped easily into sleep each night I noted how pleasant was the gentle sound of frapping halyards compared to the voice of Mrs Raedwald.

I still value the sound as a harbinger of freedom every bit as potent as the roar of a Merlin engine over Antwerp in 1943.

 

[landaftaf]

I can empathise with you in a very small way, to me an increase of noise generated by halyards slapping against a mast (ugh - except an aluminium one, which has a horrible twang to it) makes me feel very comfy knowing the wind has picked up 'outside' and I am snuggled up inside /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[bobgosling]

A pedant writes ...

Halyards FLAP because they haven't been FRAPPED.

I always frap my halyards ( and flumble my grotwurdles - but that's another story ) and I am annoyed that others are not so considerate.

Maybe they are just getting their own back for being swamped by a MoBo passing at displacement speed ?!?!