In not wanting to hear swimmers...

[Brollypackedforscottishholiday]

Local sea swimmer club swim 9 slots a week on our local beach. Huge stretch of beach but for some reason swim opposite the closest houses (and a care home)..
The first slot is 6 am. Much noise... Enough to wake every member who sleeps at the front of our house!!
I have left a complaint of sorts on our local news page.
Hands up how many mners swim shouting Woo Woo at 6 am? 8 am? Or 8 pm? Isn't swimming a sedentary hobby?
Huge car park and access to the beach further along with no houses across the road. Senseless thoughtless people imo..
Rant over - been awake since, yep 6 A bloody am.

@shockthemonkey

You can't ask swimmers to be quiet if you're happily shouting fishwife-style from your bedroom window.

Of course you can!

The club is contactable via social media only. I am not on sm.
Dh has spoken to them very non confrontational. The man who spoke to him goaded dh to sue him.
There are better car parks to the left and to the right of the closest houses... They choose to park in bays at the end of our street.
Will ring council tomorrow..

I'm a sea swimmer, well more accurately a wave- bobber. I swim and Bob over the waves and never get anywhere. I could be described as a sedentary sea swimmer.

Yes, but they're not spurts clubs! But sea swimmers are spurters- they spurt water when they come up for air

I'm a quiet and pleasant sedentary sea swimmers and the group I'm part of are very nice considerate people. Some of them swim the Channel so far from sedentary.

@Antinerak

Swimmers and cyclists are equally dickish. Yappy dogs are not far behind. We have all 3 near us but council have done nothing despite them all being on private land. Good luck!

I’m a cyclist and I’m not dickish. Fuck off with your generalising. (maybe swearing at you makes me dickish but I’m not dickish on my bike!)

Sea swimmers tend to be very positive free to honking courageous people who won't respond to sm comments, as that approach is a bit cowardly and passive aggressive. They will respond to you assertively and calmly popping down to talk to them one morning.

Thinking not honking

male wild swimmers are just aquatic cyclists and therefore equally cunty

@Coogee

How can swimming be 'sedentary'?

Oddly enough,I was swimming the sea with my husband yesterday and he claimed to be sedentary swimming. He floats in a sitting position and propels himself using breast stroke arms only.

That's dad swimming 🤣 My late dad did it and my husband does it too now!!

Do they leave their clothes on the beach? I suggest a super soaker battle right next to all over them

@Rugsofhonour

Why don’t you just speak to them instead of leaving messages on a local news page? Can’t you talk?

Her DH did.

Can you read?

Yanbu. Swimming generally is an early morning/ late evening sport for those who are into it seriously.

I'm up at 4am over half the week to take my ds as they start at 5am! (Indoor at various local pools!).

Screaming and hollering at 6am is noise nuisance and I'd be recording it, making a log and contact environmental health at the council.

Although I'm actually loving the idea of their clothes and towels somehow ending up in the sea from poster above!

How frightfully hilarious people are with their passive aggressive suggestions, how lacking in empathy they are.

So 6am is legally a noise nuisance

Only if it meets the thresholds, which a load of people shrieking a beach away is almost certainly not going to manage, the council if they get as far as installing the noise meters will show this I imagine.

I can't imagine anyone reasonable not thinking you're in the right OP. Those that don't are probably antisocial dickheads themselves.

The council sounds like the only possibility though for a solution as anyone considerate would a) not swim nearest the houses anyway and b) have apologised when your husband asked them politely to keep it down.

I sympathise. Excess and inconsiderate noise is the worst.

Funnily enough when people are reasonable, and trying to find solutions, any noise you do hear bothers you less.

The club is contactable via social media only. I am not on sm.
You did say though that your DD does and you were considering sending a message via that. Also that doesn’t explain why you didn’t write a note/letter first.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to speak to someone in person. But some people don’t deal with confrontation well, especially if they’ve already shown themselves to be a bit of an arsehole. You’d probably have more luck in messaging them first.

Where shall I put a note? Under a rock or a pile of seaweed? Send a message via a shell?
I didn't want to drag dd into it tbh.
Lack of sleep is a killer when your youngest is nearly 7!!

@itsgettingwierd

Actually her husband spoke to them after a year of OP stewing about this noise, the previous poster’s comment is fair.

It wasn't the comment as such but the tone. It was rude and so I thought I'd pint out that she had actually done what she was suggesting.

It was done within 2 weeks of starting this thread. I've often let things slide for time periods hoping they'll improve before finally having enough and no tolerance for it anymore. Most humans are like that.

You've said a couple of times that you don't have SM, is there a reason you can't make accounts solely for this issue?

I did not know any clubs in UK were so active.

Don't they have jobs to go to, I wonder?
Cromer is near me, surfers out at all sorts of times, but only in clusters of about 20. Not as rowdy & frequent as OP describes.

Huge sympathy. Some “sports” clubs are incredibly inconsiderate (we live near a cricket club, so speak from bitter experience).

Def go down the route of local council. Do not waste your time engaging with the wankers. Keep a log of the noise, and raise a formal complaint with the council. Good luck!