So what you're sayin' is you're not the friendly type that likes to chat?

He was probably hoping you'd leave so he could unload the bales of BC Bud!

CM

"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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Edgar wrote:
That says it all! French yachtsmen, on entering a new anchorage, always
assume that the boat already there has gone in the best place, so they
anchor themselves as near to you as possible even if the rest of the bay
is
empty.

I thought that was what Canadians did! One Sunday we entered "The Basin,"
a beautiful inlet in Casco Bay, Maine. It was filled with about 30 boats
on a rendezvous, so we anchored in a marginal space near the entrance.
Late that afternoon they all left, but we were well hooked and decided to
stay put. The next morning a Canadian came in and anchored so close
beside us there was only about 5 feet between the two sides - we might as
well have been rafted. It took about an hours of listening to his life
story, and everything he knew about our boat, his boat, and the universe
before he took our not so subtle hints that he'd probably be happier about
400 yards away.


Although this is the worst such case, I've seen the same basic pattern
repeated many times.