Good points. We have far more boats in our marina that have never
left their slip since I have been here than liveaboard boats of the same
status.

"Jim Richardson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:42:15 -0500,
Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:07:57 -0800, Jim Richardson
wrote:

You think someone that's living aboard 24x7 isn't "using" their boat?

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Don't take offense unless the shoe fits. If a boat never moves under
its own power, it is not being used as a boat, it is being used as a
floating house trailer. Ditto for boats that have all of their spare
supplys piled on deck, and ditto for boats with 5 years of barnacles
growing on the bottom. THAT is the sort of thing which inspires
anti-liveaboard regulation. Please don't say it doesn't happen, I can
provide pictures.


I live in a marina with about 30% or more, liveaboards. Sure, if a boat
looks like a trashheap, there will be friction. But whether the boat
leaves the dock or not, is irrelevent to that. There are several boats
here that look like crap, yet have no one living aboard, and are used
from time to time, as "boats"

The anti-liveaboard factions, are like most any other anti faction, they
don't like something, for whatever reason, and they are small minded
enough to try and push their choices, on others, irrespective of actual
facts. Case in point here in Seattle a couple of years ago, was the then
head of DNR, pushing an anti-liveaboard agenda, complete with pictures
of garbage littering the bottom of the bay, implication being that the
liveaboards were throwing all this trash overboard.

Turns out, the pics were from the bottom, outside the navy's shipyard,
and were the results of 40+ years of navy trash... which said head of
DNR knew, but she had an agenda so...


Me, I don't care how often a boat goes out, I know we don't go out any
where near as often as I would like. I care what the dock, parking, etc
looks like a lot more, and at least here, the main "culprits" of mess
and mayhem, are the weekend sailors.


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