Moral dilemma

[Guest]

Sitting in a nice bay, Home Bay Rakino to be precise and at high tide. Boats squeezing into places that they just shouldn't for Jazz festival. Big fizz nasty comes in and plops anchor smack on top of a couple of other boats. Asked nicely to move and responds with a 'piss off' twice I saw.

 

Moves and parks 4 metres from me (where we had been since the previous night) to which I say politely 'we swing around like a mad women so beat knot to stay there'. Response 'I don't care about your piece of sh*t'. To which I reply 'And you think I do, just look at it? Suddenly I'm very much looking forward to the damage my boat WILL* make of yours and what's more I sure as f*ck won't be trying to stop it now, you dickhead'.

 

* - screw heads sticking out of age worn rubbing strake now so just magnificent for shiny newish topsides of boats owned by dickheads.

 

Dickhead then moves again and I might add, by this stage the crew were hiding downstairs. It's high tide and if you know Home bay there are some real nasty rocks on the eastern side that are covered at high tide. He parks mm's from those and at times is swinging over them. An hour or 2 at the most and he would have had serious floating issues, as in he wouldn't be and probably wouldn't be able to again without big repairs.

 

Now as much as I hate dickheads in big fizz nasties I do abide by the boatie rule of helping others when in times of need. But this particular power dork gave rise to a moral dilemma.

 

What would you have done?

[rigger 47]

2nd option, reason - if he is too stupid to listen to advice he deserves to have an expensive lesson an hopefully in future he will listen.

Now the next question - what if he comes back with, "I don't have a chart for here"

[Megwyn 2]

2nd option, reason - if he is too stupid to listen to advice he deserves to have an expensive lesson an hopefully in future he will listen.

Now the next question - what if he comes back with, "I don't have a chart for here"

 

Or even worse - "What's a chart?" . Surely he would have a depth sounder - don't those things have everything that opens and shuts?

[Guest]

I want to see the look on his face when broadsided by SR

[Guest]

I'm taking a stab but I'd say he probably had charts but had no idea how to read them. He just seemed that sort of a dick.

 

Hey Rigger, my D2 wants your job. Had to hover and watch them park a container ship. She now wants the Waka Kume for her birthday She was fascinated by it with questions coming thick and fast. She seems to have a thing for big powerful metal, must have lots of daddies genes. Oh, the Tug can't be blue, a nice shade of pink of green would be OK though Oh, she wants to know how fast can Waka Kume go hard out and is there any female drivers and/or crew?

[Guest]

I want to see the look on his face when broadsided by SR

It went from 'Yeah right' to 'Oh sh*t, he has a good point' pretty quickly when he saw I wasn't joking, which I wasn't. Don't call my boat a piece of sh*t, that's my job knot his.

 

I can be a total A1 Grade arsehole when I know I'm in the right and pissed off with someone. He picked up on that vibe pretty quick.

[Unicorn 6]

This situation calls for have a rum or two.

 

This will make you forget your problem, and his problem, and the fact that there were rocks there anyway. So with a clear conscience you can sit back and do nothing and watch the world unfold in whatever way it deserves to.

[GregW 28]

He may have been so upset by his encounter with KM that he forgot where the instruction manual for the depth sounder was kept. There is no moral responsibility for anyone else to do anything. Its up to him to know what he's anchoring over.

[Bogan 8]

Of course the mid mounted depth sounder transducer may not have swung over the rocks....

[Guest]

KM. Do you know in the circumstances you describe I think I would choose 3.

[Murky 3]

Chances of the SR's topsides being transformed any time in the near future while you are still getting such a kick out of other people's reactions and [mis] judgements: slim to #$%&-all.

[Guest]

a Moral dilemma.......few years ago the enemy and I were watching round the bays anchored just to the west of the green st heliers marker(reef extends north of it) spotted one of those gleeming pig troughs heading straight at me and at pace, he was headed east, honestly missed me by no more than 10 feet and as it was a 40'planer it threw quiet a wake, he missed me, my beer bottle ( full) didnt miss him , sweeping turn to starboard and he's coming back for another run, this time down my other side.......honestly i did wave to him to not go there.......that was us rolling round the cockpit coming so very close to wetting our pants as seen via the helecopter on the news that night.....funny after he'd done his landing ( and I might add a thorough job on rudders shafts and props) he didn't pop over to say hello.....so with regard to your dilemma....dont waste the opportunity.....keep spare camera batteries always on hand

[Guest]

You should have tied off your anchor line amidships with the pointy end of SR aimed at him and ever so genty hoisted a wee bit of headsail.

[Clipper 382]

option 3

if he actully said " I don't care about your piece of sh*t", why care about his?

F*ck em

[wheels 544]

It's times like this it's a pity I am so far away. We could have invited him to opark up near my 20T of floating jetty and say "sorry ole chap" as we swing into each other.

I try to be curtious, but if they want to be dicks like that, then I just let them learn the hard way.

[Battleship 100]

I voted for the second option but on reflection wouldn't it be better it he ended up on the bricks? Get him off the water for a while may even put him off boating altogether.

 

What was the end result KM?

Also can you name and shame so we can all identify this Turkey.

[SloopJohnB 337]

KN has he come to haunt you.

[Guest]

I think he'd be the type to fly in squeal like a stuck pig and bail.

 

Knot a charitable bunch are you, looking at the poll

 

I trundled passed and simple said 'I suggest you look under your boat before going ashore'. 30mins later he up anchored, yet again, and disappeared around the corner. I think he realised he'd made a big enough dork of himself by that stage. The yacht next to us said 'should have left the prick to sink'.

 

I just don't like watching any boat sink even if a earth trashing excess diesel swilling lump of crap production tupperware driven by a bloke with very little clues and brain cells sized to match. I wouldn't have lost much sleep watching him go but the people aboard obviously knew he was being a dork and there were kids. If they weren't aboard it may have been different.

[Murky 3]

Knot a charitable bunch are you

Some of us just don't believe in interfering with destiny. Now he might have to learn that lesson all over again.