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2026-03-16 21:22 UTC
@neauoire@merveilles.town @artsun@merveilles.town Not all marinas will even do anything. I know of two that won't let their workers do anything in this situation due to risk for life and limb and probably also due to risk of liability claims (from either the boat owner or the worker when they get hurt).
So the nearby liveaboards (us in several cases) get to do it. Can't sleep anyways when a sail is flogging itself to death.
Once I climbed onto such a boat and found the mechanic was already on deck. Marina had called the owner, who called the mechanic who had rushed out in flip flops, thin shirt and short pyjama-pants in a winter storm.
Unfortunately he was a power boat guy and didn't know what to do, so was glad for the help 😆
Sail saved. Mechanic got paid extra for his hypothermia, we got a dinner, which was nice.
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@artsun@merveilles.town 2026-03-16 21:32
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de @neauoire@merveilles.town That's a great story in the end :) The night of the storm I was talking about a few posts before, I went out at night furling a genoa a few boats away. I was living aboard at this time and saw the sail just about to unfurl. Then - as I was already out - I went and checked other boats further away in the marina. I learned the day after that a lady of my neighbors, living aboard her trawler, mistook me for a thief and tried to get the number of the owner of the boat I climbed onto to warn him 😶