tie your boats down

there are a few boats-in-trees at grafham - James the fast cat fleet captain called to say my boat is OK (He'd been up to check) and said it's a bit mad up there - Max speed he saw while he was there was 74mph....

If your boat is propped up by tyres at the bow remove them if you can because they get moved out of place easily which means that the tie-down rope goes slack so nothing is stopping it from moving around!  

This had happened to my boat today but fortunately someone moved all the tyres and tied it down to the ground before it blew away.

The beauty of a tiny ( tree lined ) boat park ... about 10 meters thick of trees on almost every side ...

Even a good force 7 will hardly rustle the trees next to you ...

Just got to hope that the tree's dont decide to come tumbling down into said boatpark.

Mine is in the garden, i could watch it fly away from where im sitting. Lucky its tied to a couple of trees which hopefully won't go anywhere, if they do i think the boat will hav already gone!

The trouble with not having tyres under the front of some boats is that a nice big pool can collect in the front of the cockpit... and when that pool goes over the breather hole... you get one rather heavy boat, granted its probably not going anywhere but im pretty sure itll not do it much good. Possibly slightly class specific on the breather hole side of things, but a cockpit full of water is never going to be good in any boat.


Edited by 29er397

Originally posted by Quagers very scared at the moment  boat left tied down with tyres under bow, boats around tend not to tie theirs down. Will be going to check this weekend, fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for mine, I have foot long stakes in the ground, can't be said for all boats in my dinghy park.