Hearing is a funny thing -- some people can and do sleep, and soundly,
in noise conditions I find intolerable: Causes? Wind and some engine
powered generators; slapping halyards and waves; loud talking and
laughing; and thumping loud "music" until the wee hours. I have heard
it all too often and spent sleepless nights as a result.

Not all power boats, I ought to add, have loud generators or exhausts.
Not all sailboats have loud generators or exhausts. But some do -- both
power and sail.

No one in any anchorage is exempt from keeping "quiet" after, say, 2200
hrs -- no banging on pots or skillets to loosen food for overboard
disposal; no drunken or sober loud talking or laughing, or loud music
or TV, in the cockpit or on deck; no unsecured halyards or any other
intrusive noise source, including horns and bells. I have heard them
all.

I have sometimes wished my hearing was far less sensitive than it is.

I once left my own boat when the wind had it pinned tightly against a
piling and the fender outside my cabin was sqeaking intermittenly and
loudly. I took a blanket and pillow and slept in the grass some
distance away. Earplugs do not work. Pillows over the head do not work.
QUIET WORKS.

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Hearing is a funny thing -- some people can and do sleep, and soundly,
in noise conditions I find intolerable: Causes? Wind and some engine
powered generators; slapping halyards and waves; loud talking and
laughing; and thumping loud "music" until the wee hours. I have heard
it all too often and spent sleepless nights as a result.
..........................................snip.... .................
QUIET WORKS.


What works for me is to have a small 12v fan, gently blowing, in the
sleeping cabin. The humming of the fan motor and the gentle breeze of the
fan puts me to sleep quickly and I do not hear any of the outside noises.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield

Boy Oh Boy I know what you mean

Sometimes all the noise in an anchorage that I have to delay getting up
at dawn to practice my bagpipes ....

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Hearing is a funny thing -- some people can and do sleep, and soundly,
in noise conditions I find intolerable: Causes? Wind and some engine
powered generators; slapping halyards and waves; loud talking and
laughing; and thumping loud "music" until the wee hours. I have heard
it all too often and spent sleepless nights as a result.

Not all power boats, I ought to add, have loud generators or exhausts.
Not all sailboats have loud generators or exhausts. But some do -- both
power and sail.

No one in any anchorage is exempt from keeping "quiet" after, say, 2200
hrs -- no banging on pots or skillets to loosen food for overboard
disposal; no drunken or sober loud talking or laughing, or loud music
or TV, in the cockpit or on deck; no unsecured halyards or any other
intrusive noise source, including horns and bells. I have heard them
all.

I have sometimes wished my hearing was far less sensitive than it is.

I once left my own boat when the wind had it pinned tightly against a
piling and the fender outside my cabin was sqeaking intermittenly and
loudly. I took a blanket and pillow and slept in the grass some
distance away. Earplugs do not work. Pillows over the head do not work.
QUIET WORKS.

wrote in message
oups.com...
Hearing is a funny thing -- some people can and do sleep, and soundly,
in noise conditions I find intolerable: Causes? Wind and some engine
powered generators; slapping halyards and waves; loud talking and
laughing; and thumping loud "music" until the wee hours. I have heard
it all too often and spent sleepless nights as a result.

Not all power boats, I ought to add, have loud generators or exhausts.
Not all sailboats have loud generators or exhausts. But some do -- both
power and sail.

No one in any anchorage is exempt from keeping "quiet" after, say, 2200
hrs -- no banging on pots or skillets to loosen food for overboard
disposal; no drunken or sober loud talking or laughing, or loud music
or TV, in the cockpit or on deck; no unsecured halyards or any other
intrusive noise source, including horns and bells. I have heard them
all.

I have sometimes wished my hearing was far less sensitive than it is.

I once left my own boat when the wind had it pinned tightly against a
piling and the fender outside my cabin was sqeaking intermittenly and
loudly. I took a blanket and pillow and slept in the grass some
distance away. Earplugs do not work. Pillows over the head do not work.
QUIET WORKS.


I really enjoy the sounds, wind and water, but have little tolerance for
mechanical noises in the anchorage or marina.

Halyards slapping on a metal mast is the worst, followed closely by
generators.

If I'm in a marina the halyard noise is from an unattended boat. If it goes
on for several days, I might go aboard and 'snub' it off with a piece of
small stuff. I know I shouldn't do this but in reality, it's not much
different than retying a mooring line/fender that has come adrift or a sail
that has blown out of it's sail cover.

(I'd be interested in opinions regarding, boarding another's boat to stop a
halyard from slapping??)

If it is my home marina, I usually know the skipper and will just mention
that I have tied off his halyard/mooring line/fender. Just being neighborly.

I've never tried to do anything about loud generators it seldom occurs late
at night here in the Pac. NW. I suppose that might be common in the warmer
climates where people will run their ACs in the anchorage, late at night.

I'm an "early riser" and frequently get up at sun rise for an early
departure from an anchorage. I have often wondered how much my engine and
anchor handling effects others. I know this wouldn't bother me since I
realize it is a necessary part of boating.

I also have a wind generator (Windbugger) and never notice any noise
commonly associated with other models. Even these (others) have never been a
bother to me. My attitude, "at least it ain't as loud as a gen set!"

My experience and opinion, FWIW.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

"Steve" wrote:
wrote in message
roups.com...
Hearing is a funny thing -- some people can and do sleep, and soundly,
in noise conditions I find intolerable: Causes? Wind and some engine

I have trained myself to block most of those things out. My husband
has not. The one thing that did disturb my sleep was when my
teenagers were still out late - whenever I would hear a siren I would
wake and worry. Other than that, there's not much that disturbs me.

We were on a mooring on our first charter (with a crew) and the
mooring periodically made farting noises. Also the flagpole in front
of the building that was nearby had an unsecured something or other
that banged in the wind all night long, kind of made the flagpole
ring. I still slept.

powered generators; slapping halyards and waves; loud talking and
laughing; and thumping loud "music" until the wee hours. I have heard
it all too often and spent sleepless nights as a result.

Not all power boats, I ought to add, have loud generators or exhausts.
Not all sailboats have loud generators or exhausts. But some do -- both
power and sail.

No one in any anchorage is exempt from keeping "quiet" after, say, 2200
hrs -- no banging on pots or skillets to loosen food for overboard
disposal; no drunken or sober loud talking or laughing, or loud music

The drunken talking, laughing and sometimes dinghying might make me a
bit nervous sometimes. But we've had our boat at Miamarina where
there is often music late at night. Inside the boat, especially if we
are watching TV, it doesn't bother us. We did have somewhat of a
problem with a DJ who was holding Thirsty Thursday on the deck next to
where we were at the transient dock - until well after midnight.

Bob has a problem with the trains in Florida (whistling) which you can
hear in the Indian River, or almost anywhere along the Florida East
Coast. But my grandmother used to live in a house that backed up to
the L trains in Philadelphia, so that kind of noise doesn't bother me
as much.

or TV, in the cockpit or on deck; no unsecured halyards or any other
intrusive noise source, including horns and bells. I have heard them
all.

I have sometimes wished my hearing was far less sensitive than it is.

I once left my own boat when the wind had it pinned tightly against a
piling and the fender outside my cabin was sqeaking intermittenly and
loudly. I took a blanket and pillow and slept in the grass some
distance away. Earplugs do not work. Pillows over the head do not work.
QUIET WORKS.

Noises don't bother me unless I am worried about them. If the boat is
underway in a storm, and I'm worried, the boat noises bother me. But
there's nothing I can do about it (other than ask Bob what that noise
is and that REALLY annoys the heck out of him especially if he a)
doesn't know and is worried too or b) hasn't heard the noise until I
point it out).

I found it really irritating in Elizabeth City for the trawler in the
next slip to run their genset all night particularly because the
exhaust (and the exhaust gases) were on our side. But I didn't lose
any sleep over it. We just shut the hatches on that side.

If I concentrate hard on something else, I can put myself to sleep.
This takes practice but it is possible to learn to do this if you want
to. I have been doing it for 60 years.

I really enjoy the sounds, wind and water, but have little tolerance for
mechanical noises in the anchorage or marina.

Halyards slapping on a metal mast is the worst, followed closely by
generators.

If I'm in a marina the halyard noise is from an unattended boat. If it goes
on for several days, I might go aboard and 'snub' it off with a piece of
small stuff. I know I shouldn't do this but in reality, it's not much
different than retying a mooring line/fender that has come adrift or a sail
that has blown out of it's sail cover.

(I'd be interested in opinions regarding, boarding another's boat to stop a
halyard from slapping??)

If it is my home marina, I usually know the skipper and will just mention
that I have tied off his halyard/mooring line/fender. Just being neighborly.

I've never tried to do anything about loud generators it seldom occurs late
at night here in the Pac. NW. I suppose that might be common in the warmer
climates where people will run their ACs in the anchorage, late at night.

I'm an "early riser" and frequently get up at sun rise for an early
departure from an anchorage. I have often wondered how much my engine and
anchor handling effects others. I know this wouldn't bother me since I
realize it is a necessary part of boating.

I also have a wind generator (Windbugger) and never notice any noise
commonly associated with other models. Even these (others) have never been a
bother to me. My attitude, "at least it ain't as loud as a gen set!"

My experience and opinion, FWIW.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions


I know people say that they object to wind generators, but I don't,
although we don't normally run them in a marina where I have power
available. If you are anchored close enough to us to be bothered,
then you've anchored too close to us. We usually anchor early.

We get underway early too although some people get underway earlier.
We use hand signals when pulling the anchor, so there's mostly just
engine noise. I expect the late risers to snuggle down in their beds
and be smug about not having to get up yet.


grandma Rosalie