On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:21:45 -0500 (EST), "Harry Krause"
wrote:

Larry W4CSC wrote:

I just remembered what one lady down in Beaufort, SC, said to the
newspaper when they were discussing a new marina going into a creek
near her home. She was opposed to them installing "a floating trailer
park" in the creek to spoil her view. That's what property owners
think of your boats......"floating trailer parks".


At too many small marinas, there are boats apparently abandoned by their
owners, and these boats are deteriorating and in some cases, starting to
sink. There are several marinas on Rockhold Creek in Deale, Maryland,
where this is the case. If I were a property owner on that waterway, I'd
probably oppose construction of a new, small marina in my eyesight for
that reason.

My Contender is at a marina where abandoned boats are hoisted out, put
on a back lot and auctioned after the obligatory 6 months, certified
letter and all that other legal stuff. A lot of the other marinas in
the area do much the same thing and more of less to the same degree.

What amazes me is that some of these boats are pretty nice even if
they are a little older.

It seems to be far less a problem at the larger marinas in our area.
Perhaps the managers of those facilities actually manage them.

I'm also not a fan of "liveaboards" at marinas, unless there are strict
rules against eyesore boats and trash and effluent dumping that are
actually enforced.

We have some liveaboards on the bigger vessels, but no overwinter
liveaboards - all boats out by the 15th of December or gone by then.
I actually don't mind the liveaboards - I haven't had anything clipped
from my boat yet.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"I thought I'd just go fishin', but the fish
were not amused. And I caught myself just
wishin' that I was in the fishes shoes. Just
swimmin' in some deep blue water not a care
in my head, watchin' some fool with a line
and a pole hidin' by the riverbed."

Joe Ely, "Back To My Old Molehill" - "Flatlanders,
Wheels of Fortune - 2004"