tie your boats down

Having checked the boats next to mine in the dinghy park as well as my own I was quite confident, but went to check this morning to find the 4 Tonner next to me off its trailer and cuddling up very close to my Canoe. On inspection his tie down ropes were rotted and had snapped...

They look like an artifical rope to me, so presumably its UV damage. Rather a nasty suprise. Fortunately it had landed in the gap between boats and I don't think either is damaged. So don't just check your knots, check the rope as well!

The rest of the club infrastructure isn't too clever: three of our racing marks have shed their moorings and I fear we may have a sunk rescue boat!

One boat in garage with a bit of gelcoat drying as i type, so more than happy with that one, t'other boat with tyres under the bow in the boat park, would be worried by it, but it's a laser. 

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.

I think the problem for Flying Fifteens is that they present a large area to the wind. My boat is head(ish) to wind and is a lot more stable than the ones pointing the other way...

Originally posted by owain This was Plymouth at about 11am today, i could barely stand up. I was blown off The Hoe, so to speak...............

You got blown off a Ho? Jees, that's nasty!

Biggest danger seems to be the boats around mine that aren't tied down properly- me and the dog were grovelling round the boatpark looking for old bits of rope to hold a few of them down tonight. The 200's seem to specialise in not tying the bow down to the trolley so they end up all skewed, on at the back, but not at the front. If you read my last post in this topic, the 505, 14 and Buzz (not an ISO as I called it before) are still all abandoned. The FF15 has been moved, but has now blown off its trolley backwards and is sitting with its nose in the air.

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