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    Posted: 22 Apr 07 at 8:35pm

Originally posted by JimC

Well, after you destroy their tackle, sailing along the beach with the whole ocean to sail in, do you go and apologise and pay for it?

I'm not sure who is "in the right" here that's why I asked the Question, but surely another point of view could be that with thousands of miles of coast line available why fish right next to a sailing club, a bit bloody minded perhaps......As it happens, a committee member and I did go and have a chat with them afterwards and it all ended up quite friendly we where very reasonable after what seemed like attempted murder by the lead slinging fisherman. 
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People causing distress or suffering to other creatures for sport deserve all they get.

And I've found that towing around 30 metres of fishing line and a hook after an 'incident' doesn't slow you down as much as you might expect . Can wear a groove in the front of your board though...
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We had an incident at Whitstable with kids throwing stones ... one landed in a Merlin ... idiots.

With the fishermen in this case I think you should have given them more space but casting at you is pretty stupid ...

You have a choice where you sail but they can hardly fish anywhere else ...
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

People causing distress or suffering to other creatures for sport deserve all they get.

And I've found that towing around 30 metres of fishing line and a hook after an 'incident' doesn't slow you down as much as you might expect . Can wear a groove in the front of your board though...



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What everyone has missed so far is that the sailors are RACING, so therefore need the optimum route. The fishermen are just (presumably, I know there are competitions) doing it for fun.
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Originally posted by Harry44981!

... the sailors are RACING, so therefore need the optimum route. The fishermen are just (presumably, I know there are competitions) doing it for fun.

Mate, if you're not racing for fun I suggest you stop right now!
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It is very easy to consider all fishermen enemies, they can't all be, even though it sometimes seems like it. On our reservior they often cast next to the marks and then swear at us for going round them (the marks that is). They also leave an incredible amount of litter and there is no one official to clear it up. The reservoir belongs to British Waterways but no fishing club has taken on the fishing rights and so it is a free for all. We lease the water to sail on and pay boat fees. I have complained recently to British Waterways who have accepted my comments and will, they say, respond within three weeks. I await there action.
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I was talking about this with some people the other day because the same thing happens with us in chichester harbour, but according to someone who is reasonably well informed (yachtmaster) due to the international collision regulations sailing boats always have to get out of the way of fishing but i think this may only to apply to people fishing from boats.
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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by Harry44981!

... the sailors are RACING, so therefore need the optimum route. The fishermen are just (presumably, I know there are competitions) doing it for fun.

Mate, if you're not racing for fun I suggest you stop right now!


Hence the JUST, implying that racing is fun due to the sailing being good and the competition entertaining, and the additional component of wanting to win. Fihsing beiing along the lines of the former- merely for the entertainment of catching fish, not in addition to catching more fish than the other guy.

I can be equally pedantic
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

People causing distress or suffering to other creatures for sport deserve all they get.





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You have to avoid this confrontation, if you antagonise each other you will both suffer. 

Perhaps it would have been possible to lay a bouy offshore so that all boats had to pas to seaward of it, or perhaps lay a different course altogether.  At Bough Beech reservior we have made a particular effort to get on with the fishermen and it has paid dividends.  We have a rule to sail no closer than 50m to a fisherman.  The fisher men know this and if a boat capsises and drifts onto their area they are most tolerant.  Its the only way.

Incidentaly I used to fish on a canal, often just before a canal boat arrived the fish would make a hasty bite - so don't assume a boat will put the fish off.  However you can assume sailing over somebody's tackle will anoy them.
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