I like #4. Then get a very smokey bbq going.

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"katy" wrote in message
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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Frank Boettcher" wrote | I've been anchored in
a protected cove with opening ports, hatches and
| windscoop my method of cooling and had boats come up running
| generators so they could have AC and TV and/or loud music devices.
| Generally they are the same idiots who will not tie off their
| halyards, let them slap against their masts all night since, with
| their boats closed up, and the drone of the genset and AC, they can't
| hear them.


Can you beat this one? Me and a friend anchored in an out of the
way little cove one afternoon. We wanted to watch the sunset sip some
wine and have a quiet night. It was great. We were the only boat in
there. About ten minutes before sunset this big ugly motor boat comes in
on a plane. He wakes us then turns and anchors about fifty feet from us.
(The cove was big enough that he could have anchored a hundred yards away
easy.) Right smack dab in the exact spot where we can't see the sunset.
He totally blocked the view. He plays loud music. He cooks some burgers
on his barbeque. He has two dogs running around barking. Thank God he
left about a half hour after sunset. Can you get any more rude and
selfish than that?
Hey, does Capt. Rob have a motorboat too?


Cheers,
Ellen
Seems to me you had some choices:
1. You could have got out a gun and shot them all dead.
2. You could have swum under his boat and sawed off his props.
3. You could sit and have a private hissy and end up taking a brittle of
antacids and a handful of blood pressure medication.
4..You could have pulled anchor and reset...in front of him.