Good points, except for # 5, 7 & 16.

Scotty
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
message
anews.com.
...
Keeping your sailboat in a slip is just plain stupid and
here are the
reasons why.

1) You almost always hove to use your motor to get
underway. Might as
well own a motor yacht and get it over with.

2) You and your boat is like an exhibit in a zoo. Lot's of
gawkers and
passers by who give you no privacy.

3) A fire in the slip next to yours often times greatly
damages your
boat or destroys it completely.

4) Most marinas require you carry a huge liability
insurance policy.

5) Many will chase you away when a hurricane approaches.

6) Obnoxious, noisy neighbors, barking dogs, cat's and
dogs "marking
their territory" using your boat.

7) Lots of roaches, ants, termites, fleas and other vermin
all over the
place.

8) Electrolysis rampant with stray voltage all over the
place.

9) Filthy, oily water with an almost constant diesel fuel
sheen in
evidence. This ends up as a black oily scum all around
your LWL and boot
stripe.

10) All crammed into a small space with little or no
breeze - in other
words, hotter than hell.

12) People steal anything that's not locked down.

13) A cacophony of slapping halyards, flapping canvas and
jury rigged
window air conditioners.

14) Outrageously expensive monthly rent.

15) Trailer park trash transient atmosphere. Drunken
blowhards abound.
Fat lying losers like Bobsprit running their fat mouths
trying to
impress other people with their low-end production line
French crap.

16) Constant chafe and wear and tear on lines, cleats and
other fittings
from the boat not being allowed to point bow to the wind.

17) Foul air from cigars, cigarettes, engines warming up,
barbeques
cooking and hot sweaty bodies. Children screaming and
running up and
down the dock.

18) Fat women sunning their ugly carcasses.

19) Fat men sunning their ugly carcasses.

20) and on it goes....

Wilbur Hubbard