Yachts at sea

[Kaptin Kod]

Not just me then

[Growler]

And i've got a marina full of the idiots to put up with! Looks like i'll be needing prozac come the nice weather!

[codhead]

"power concedes to sail though, don't ya know?"

Aye, try telling that to the skipper of the Emma Maersk, as he puts his engines in reverse, somewhere round about the Needles, so he has a hope of stopping at Felixstowe

[keana]

I havent really had a problem with the `cloth blowers`, but I can understand what you mean, its the `tally ho` men in their Gin Palaces that get me. They sit up there on their fly bridges sipping Martini`s (stirred not shaken, ignorant pigs) and pass your anchor warp at 40 knots without a care in the world. B*st*rds, someones going to get hurt one day.

[Punsj]

I'm just wondering how many folk who complain about boats passing close to them are showing the black ball that is required by Collision Regs? There are some very busy areas where we fish and very few anglers (if any) show a black ball, and as most sailors are expecting motor boats to be moving and keeping out of their way it is not surprising there are plenty of close shaves.

[duncan]

keana - havn't got a flybridge and we have the martini's in the cockpit wneh fishing's slow.................

[The Happiest Hooker]

Yachties, commonly known as WAFI's - Wind Assisted F***ing Idiots!!

[Charter Skipper]

Originally Posted by The Happiest Hooker

Yachties, commonly known as WAFI's - Wind Assisted F***ing Idiots!!

...THEY ARE NOT THAT CLEVER !!!!!.

[The Happiest Hooker]

Punsj

Although tecnically correct the collision regs also state that ' If a bearing remains constant, then the risk of collision occurs'. If a vessel is at anchor, hence not moving and yachty is maintaining his course then a competent skipper should know that the motorboat is not moving and that he needs to adjust the course he has usually set miles beforehand to avoid the fishing veseel that happens to be on this course, and passing a few feet away is not acceptable. Many of these stuck up their own ar*e yachty people think they own sea. Only 3 weeks ago my mate had 2 zziplex sea raiders pulled over the side by yachty passing to closely. He was in a 42 feet boat and had been anchored in the same position for 3 hours

[monkey nuts]

Originally Posted by Punsj

I'm just wondering how many folk who complain about boats passing close to them are showing the black ball that is required by Collision Regs? There are some very busy areas where we fish and very few anglers (if any) show a black ball, and as most sailors are expecting motor boats to be moving and keeping out of their way it is not surprising there are plenty of close shaves.

yes, i do(WAFIs dont know what it means any way) and i also have a big bright orange ball on my anchor rope , but thay still think is ok to use you as a marker, the solent is wide enough to give angleing boat a wider birth than 10 yrds so we dont feel like we are going to get crunched

i like the 6oz wieght , it rips expencive sails realy easy or fresh mackerel guts on the teak deck, stains like a b*****d on a hot summers day