[Markwesti]

Question , do you think flying these so called drones in a anchorage or a marina is cool or uncool . I'll go first, UNCOOL !
And here is why I think that , they are not quite they make a angry hornet swarm buzz noise . Second in most cases they have a camera on board .
So I say invasion of peace and privacy. IMO they should be flown at a Remote Control air field .

 

[Faster]

Saw someone doing this last summer.. at first I thought it was pretty cool. There have been SNers that posted some neat videos they took of their anchorage and their boat with these things.. that's pretty neat too.

BUT- you're right, it's potentially an incredible annoyance and certainly a potential invasion of privacy. If this gets out of hand it will rival jetskis - but at least there's no wake/wash from them.

 

[denverd0n]

Depends on how they're used. Kept at reasonable altitude and/or only close to your own boat... Cool. Flown all around the anchorage, low enough to photograph and annoy others... Uncool.

 

[jongleur]

They could have protective rings around the
rotor blades...but they don't. I don't want to
be around when one gets out of control and
comes down and slices someone up.

It'll happen.

 

[MarkofSeaLife]

Uncool???


Are you kidding? You just don't know how to use them properly!

We all have drones and at sundowners instead of you comming to my boat and mess my cockpit up, I fly a beer over to your boat, you fly a beer over to my boat, both our drones hovver with cameras on, and we both WIFI or Bluetooth the vision onto our Smart Phones so we can see each other!


Fantastic! The BEST bit is theres no audio so I don't have to listen to anyone!!

Last week we went for a Drone Pot Luck on a deserted beach. We all stayed on our own boats


Mark

 

[Faster]

Uncool???

Are you kidding? You just don't know how to use them properly!

We all have drones and at sundowners instead of you comming to my boat and mess my cockpit up, I fly a beer over to your boat, you fly a beer over to my boat, both our drones hovver with cameras on, and we both WIFI or Bluetooth the vision onto our Smart Phones so we can see each other!

Fantastic! The BEST bit is theres no audio so I don't have to listen to anyone!!

Last week we went for a Drone Pot Luck on a deserted beach. We all stayed on our own boats

Mark

(Insert audio file of swarming killer bees here )

 

[krisscross]

You can probably take them out with a good pellet rifle. Aim for the blades. Quiet and discreet.

 

[Faster]

You can probably take them out with a good pellet rifle. Aim for the blades. Quiet and discreet.

Aw, geez.... don't turn this into a gun thread

 

[krisscross]

Aw, geez.... don't turn this into a gun thread

OK, bow and arrow?

 

[jongleur]

Slingshot.

 

[Don L]

Question , do you think flying these so called drones in a anchorage or a marina is cool or uncool . I'll go first, UNCOOL !
And here is why I think that , they are not quite they make a angry hornet swarm buzz noise . Second in most cases they have a camera on board .
So I say invasion of peace and privacy. IMO they should be flown at a Remote Control air field .

Sounds that you are in an interesting marina.

 

[Markwesti]

You can probably take them out with a good pellet rifle. Aim for the blades. Quiet and discreet.

Thought about that but I'm a lousy shot and that pellet has to come down somewhere . Back in the day when my dad and I were flying RC airplanes at a RC airfield there was a guy once who hid in his car with a CB radio, he could key the mic and interfere with the guy flying his model airplane . He got busted and some guys beat the stuffing out of him . I was about 10yrs.old at the time and it left quite a impression on me . Pay backs are a ***** .

 

[krisscross]

Pay backs are a ***** .

I would think that shooting down a drone (winging it?) would be a payback for annoying the crap out of peace loving folks living on their boats. That high pitch engine whine has to be one of the most annoying sounds out there. If it is just a mere passing drone, it can and should be tolerated. But a prolonged session in my vicinity would get them a pest-control type of response.

 

[SVAuspicious]

Question , do you think flying these so called drones in a anchorage or a marina is cool or uncool.

Depends on whether they are flying a pirate flag. If so, they are lame.

 

[L.A. Sail]

They make great target practice

 

[sailak]

Re: Invasion of privacy….I can get far better photos of you from my boat with a long lens than I can from my drone. You have no expectation of privacy when in a public area. It's legal to take your picture, or a picture of your boat as long as I don't use the image of the person commercially without a release.

As for noise, for the smaller ones such as the DJI Phantom the noise isn't that noticeable unless close. Probably no more so than the music from your cockpit speakers.

I have a drone that I have used in an anchorage. As with everything I do in life I respect others privacy and strive not to offend. Unfortunetly not everyone adheres to that rule when flying a drone, operating their outboard dinghy, playing music or just about any other activity you want to list.

I much more afraid of the "skipper" that can't control his boat than I am of an "out of control" drone.

A couple examples of drone use: Here and here.

 

[capecodda]

Better than jet ski's zooming around you. Is it politically correct to ....nah, never mind

 

[timangiel]

I think it would be cool to get Arial pics of my boat, and it might be a useful tool for inspecting the top of your mast. If I were relaxing on my boat I would not want to see one just show up.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Bene505]

It's 15 minutes of flight time, right? As long as you aren't endangered, or it's an intrusive government cataloging your image for perpetual cross-referencing to be used against you, who cares?

Wave hello and go back to your sundowner.

Now if it's a power boater flying them, that's different.

Regards,
Brad

 

[night0wl]

Privacy? You park your boat in a an anchorage, I dont think you should have any expectation of privacy. Heck, there's always the guy that has his binoculars scanning the anchorage looking for *ahem* exhibitionists.

My thoughts...its a public space, so anything thats allowed in a park is fair game in the water/anchorage. Different story if it is a private anchorage/marina...private property, private rules. Besides, its way better/easer to deal with a drone than those stupid jetskis or jetpacks that are running through my S Florida anchorages!