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Andymac 
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Joined: 04 Apr 07 Location: Derbyshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 852 |
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 Topic: Boat Park CarnagePosted: 05 Jan 14 at 2:34am |
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Panama perhaps?
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patj
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Joined: 16 Jul 04 Location: Wiltshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 643 |
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 8:04am |
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As a member at the same club as Roger, we seem to have spent the last fortnight moving boats both our own and for others without road trailers, culminating in a trip through the floods to mid-Devon yesterday with a son's Wayfarer, Bug and canoe moving south from Oxford!
Our garden looks more like a dinghy park than ever, but all is sheltered and secure and yes, we are still sailing as we're also members at Cheddar where the boat is tucked up securely in a nice dry shed!
This surely is a wake-up call to clubs without proper tie down systems to install something. The system of a wire hawser secured down at intervals along the middle of each outdoor row is simple and effective and used at many clubs, but unless the members at a club make a fuss and threaten to leave, the management will stick their heads in the sand and do nothing.
If club management require boats to be insured but boat insurance is invalidated by the lack of tie down points is the club liable?
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Rupert
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Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 11:01am |
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I wouldn't have thought so. You can choose whether to join, and you could always put your own tie down points in. However, are there really still clubs out there with no tie downs? |
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tgruitt
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 11:36am |
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Yes, I know of loads that have no tie downs! |
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rogerd
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 1:11pm |
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Shearwater you have a strong bow point to tie down but have to bury your own concrete unless you are lucky enough to be allocated a space where a previous users has placed some concrete for you. Luckily its pretty sheltered and is very unlikely to flood.
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maxibuddah
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 8:45pm |
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ours has a wire that runs at the level of most boats shrouds. I also tie mine down at the bow and also across the stern to two massive barrels full of water. Not infallible but has served me well for enough years now.
For boat with shrouds it always amazes me the number of people who only tie the boat down at the mast and not via the shrouds, or the fixing points of the shrouds. This means that the boat can pivot about the mast tie down, tie it at the shrouds as a min, or on all three and they stop rocking. I was taught this method 35 years ago.....
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iGRF
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Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 9:58pm |
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Took my mast down, we've got another blow on the way monday.
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Neptune
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Posted: 06 Jan 14 at 8:56am |
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I tie my wings down to the road base - then have a line secured to the mast and tied down either side to the scaffolding pole/ rail that runs the length of Datchet Dinghy park. The bow is then to the rail on the other side to stop the boat yawing.
Boat has never blown over until last Friday when I was trying to de-rig for the Oxford blue and was hiding in the club house when a hail storm came though. Had all the tie downs off, the boat was in the lee of a single storey part of the club house, but there was enough windage on the mast sticking up for it to be lifted clean off 
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getafix
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Posted: 07 Jan 14 at 7:24am |
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+1 good post, see a lot of boats tied down around the mast, when tying down to the shrouds (i.e. either side) would be perfectly possible; same chain, same rope. I got a nice new ewe deck edging done on a N12 courtesy of someone next to me tying their boat down by the mast some years ago! |
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MikeBz
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Posted: 07 Jan 14 at 5:12pm |
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It's not just over here... I can't believe a whole raft of people would leave their 49ers not tied down:
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