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Default tip the marina manager?

wrote in news:1160962340.606458.92790
@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

I keep my small sailboat in a marina year-round. Is it customary to tip
or give a present to the marina manager at Christmas? How much?



How soon after he notices it filling up with water do you want him to
call you? If you gave me that nice bottle of my favorite Scotch, I'd
probably run right up the dock to the phone and frantically call you. If
you never even said hello and never tipped me anything, I'd get around to
it next time I was near a phone.

Just depends on what level of "service" you expect from the dock crew,
waitresses, or any other service people you deal with making minimal
wages for long hours.

Now, the marina manager isn't NEAR as important to you as those college
kids they call "dock hands" that pump the gas and walk the docks. THOSE
are the ones to tip! THOSE are the ones to make friends with, even if
you patently object to that little earring in his nose...(c; The finest
tip you can give a dock hand is TAKE HIM SAILING! That's why he got the
job at the marina in the first place...his love of boats. Your neighbors
on the dock will never figure out why 3 dock hands come rushing down the
dock to tie up your boat, standing on your finger pier at the ready to
make a perfect landing....ignoring the snobbish *******s down the dock
that never give them the time of day and treat them like lesser animals.
They're landing the boat they go SAILING ON! Think about the political
ramifications of taking a couple of those boys with you, next time you
want to go sailing and are a little shorthanded. Your boat will never
sink.

"Hi, Cap'n. There was water in your dingy and it was dirty so Mikey and
I pumped it out and cleaned it up for you, Wednesday."

You'll never get used to it.........(c;