"JG" wrote in message

"Maxprop" wrote in message

"JG" wrote in message
We always see some amazing feats of stupidity there. Like the guy and
his crew who couldn't figure out how to grab a mooring line, so he backed
down on the line and wrapped it on his propshaft.

Well, he got the line!

I think he actually considered spending the night that way, but then thought
the better of it and left.

Or the German group who came into Road Town Harbor in the raw, posing for
the myriad cameras. (none were photo-worthy).

Well, what can you expect from Germans on boats. :-)

Grolsch?

Or the clown who didn't understand that the boat already on the mooring
probably didn't want to share it with him.

Now that's a unique notion.

We figure he probably ****ed people off wherever he went. He attempted to
tie a dockline to an occupied mooring ball. Apparently the Brits down below
woke up and came topside when his boat bumped into theirs. One young man
asked, in a very British accent and loud voice, "Wot the fock are you doing,
arsehole??" The guy replied, "Um, I was picking up this mooring." To
which the Brit responded, "Perhaps you noticed it was already occupied?" It
just got funnier.


Or the kids who didn't watch where they're driving the dink, and ran into
a cat on the hook at around 20mph. I could go on.

On a couple of trips ago, we saw a guy trying to pull his Bene 405
backwards with his dinghy which was moored at Cane Garden. Finally, we
couldn't stand it any more and motored over in our dink to see what was
up. Turns out he wanted to watch the sunset from the cockpit, but the boat
was pointed in the wrong direction. So, he uncleated the mooring from the
bow and attached it to the stern, where the mooring line found itself
caught between the rudder and the skeg. He was trying to remove the
tension on the boat, so he could release the line.

Another time we watched an older couple attempt to anchor their 40-something
cat in way too small an area between two other boats in Little Harbor at
Peter Island. The guy would motor right up to the boat ahead and tell his
wife to drop the anchor, then pay out rode until he was almost on top of the
boat behind. Dissatisfied with the first two attempts, he tried again, only
this time his wife literally threw the anchor into the cockpit of the boat
ahead. The fireworks that ensued were worth the price of airfare.

Max