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- Joined
- Sep 7, 2013
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- 3,791
- Location
- Canada
- Vessel Name
- Gwaii Haanas
- Vessel Make
- Custom Aluminum 52
As the resident curmudgeon, I would like to point out some of the things that made my sojourn in Desolation Sound somewhat less wonderful than it could have been. If you are happy right now, stop reading!
Of course you should anchor sensibly to provide yourself with the sense of security you need, but don’t stern tie to a live arbutus tree! In fact, don’t stern tie to ANY live tree unless it is an emergency. Killing the tree because you are too lazy to tie to something else, just so you can spend 2 days tells me that you are probably a moron and I won’t get too close because you might get some on me. You will be dead in a couple of years but the tree will live for hundreds if you leave it alone. Of course, you can always burn them all down…
Don’t say anything on channel 16 except which channel to switch to. No, really, it is for emergencies only. Don’t ask for directions, don’t ask for a radio check, don’t ask if WG is active, use some common sense. Go to 83a if you want to chat with a radio operator.
Where is your flag? Fly it proudly. If you are not proud or you lost it or you are too lazy to put it up and you are a visitor, fly a courtesy flag.
Wake? I’m not even going to mention that, the water is populated by morons. Same with gensets; buy some solar panels or coordinate with the other three boats you are rafted to?
If you don’t know where my anchor is, ask me? I’m willing to show you so you don’t set yours over or across mine and dislodge both of us in the middle of the night.
If you wish to pass me from the rear in a narrow channel, that’s up to you, don’t expect any help from me if you don’t tell me your intentions. Sorry.
The rules of the road are clear, try reading them? If you don’t understand them, you are not entitled to hold your course. Or anything else for that matter because you are a moron.
When you are fishing in our waters, there are a lot of rules. Try reading those, too? You are allowed one rockfish per license and the possession limit is 2. Crab trap floats have to have your name and phone number on them or you are a poacher and you will either get reported on the Poacher Line or someone will pull your trap. Female crabs are forbidden at any time or size; pulling off their claws and throwing them back means you are a moron.
100 meters from any whale. That’s a long way away. If you can’t see them clearly without binoculars, that’s about the right distance. They live here all year round and you will be forgotten in 20 minutes.
For all you commercial whale watcher boats out there, they are not YOUR whales, your carping at a viewing site means the radio gets turned off and there will likely never be any future cooperation from me or anybody else who witnesses your nonsense.
Somebody, some selfish moronic (you get the idea) started a campfire amidst a Province-wide ban and set fire to Pendrell Sound. Why not just burn the whole coast down and get it over with? I think this is an atrocity up there with mass murder and the perpetrator should be shot or worse.
Did you know that if you do not have a permanent galley, biffy and sleeping area it is ILLEGAL to have open containers of booze in your dinghy? Well, did you? That means rafting up to another dinghy with a beer in hand can get you charged?
There is a 4 knot limit in Pendrell Sound, it says so in the Sailing Directions so ignorance of the law makes you the moron and all those dinghys that ended up on the beach, all those boats that knocked together, all those people that were tossed out of bed by your mindless actions think you are a moron.
Even though you think you are being helpful, you cannot drill holes in rock or leave "bridles" hanging in the trees in a park, even with a nice hand-lettered sign attached saying how nice you are. It is a 'park' which means you are supposed to tread lightly and take all your garbage with you when you leave. This is not a difficult concept and if you are having trouble with it, boating is probably beyond you and you should take up motorcycling.
Up until the arrival of the smoke and the burning of lovely Pendrell Sound, it was a great summer.
Of course you should anchor sensibly to provide yourself with the sense of security you need, but don’t stern tie to a live arbutus tree! In fact, don’t stern tie to ANY live tree unless it is an emergency. Killing the tree because you are too lazy to tie to something else, just so you can spend 2 days tells me that you are probably a moron and I won’t get too close because you might get some on me. You will be dead in a couple of years but the tree will live for hundreds if you leave it alone. Of course, you can always burn them all down…
Don’t say anything on channel 16 except which channel to switch to. No, really, it is for emergencies only. Don’t ask for directions, don’t ask for a radio check, don’t ask if WG is active, use some common sense. Go to 83a if you want to chat with a radio operator.
Where is your flag? Fly it proudly. If you are not proud or you lost it or you are too lazy to put it up and you are a visitor, fly a courtesy flag.
Wake? I’m not even going to mention that, the water is populated by morons. Same with gensets; buy some solar panels or coordinate with the other three boats you are rafted to?
If you don’t know where my anchor is, ask me? I’m willing to show you so you don’t set yours over or across mine and dislodge both of us in the middle of the night.
If you wish to pass me from the rear in a narrow channel, that’s up to you, don’t expect any help from me if you don’t tell me your intentions. Sorry.
The rules of the road are clear, try reading them? If you don’t understand them, you are not entitled to hold your course. Or anything else for that matter because you are a moron.
When you are fishing in our waters, there are a lot of rules. Try reading those, too? You are allowed one rockfish per license and the possession limit is 2. Crab trap floats have to have your name and phone number on them or you are a poacher and you will either get reported on the Poacher Line or someone will pull your trap. Female crabs are forbidden at any time or size; pulling off their claws and throwing them back means you are a moron.
100 meters from any whale. That’s a long way away. If you can’t see them clearly without binoculars, that’s about the right distance. They live here all year round and you will be forgotten in 20 minutes.
For all you commercial whale watcher boats out there, they are not YOUR whales, your carping at a viewing site means the radio gets turned off and there will likely never be any future cooperation from me or anybody else who witnesses your nonsense.
Somebody, some selfish moronic (you get the idea) started a campfire amidst a Province-wide ban and set fire to Pendrell Sound. Why not just burn the whole coast down and get it over with? I think this is an atrocity up there with mass murder and the perpetrator should be shot or worse.
Did you know that if you do not have a permanent galley, biffy and sleeping area it is ILLEGAL to have open containers of booze in your dinghy? Well, did you? That means rafting up to another dinghy with a beer in hand can get you charged?
There is a 4 knot limit in Pendrell Sound, it says so in the Sailing Directions so ignorance of the law makes you the moron and all those dinghys that ended up on the beach, all those boats that knocked together, all those people that were tossed out of bed by your mindless actions think you are a moron.
Even though you think you are being helpful, you cannot drill holes in rock or leave "bridles" hanging in the trees in a park, even with a nice hand-lettered sign attached saying how nice you are. It is a 'park' which means you are supposed to tread lightly and take all your garbage with you when you leave. This is not a difficult concept and if you are having trouble with it, boating is probably beyond you and you should take up motorcycling.
Up until the arrival of the smoke and the burning of lovely Pendrell Sound, it was a great summer.
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