"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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You make a statement when you run a portable generator in an anchorage.
As a matter of fact you make at least half a dozen statements:


1) My 120 volt frivolities are more important than your peace and
quiet.

2) My unnecessary noise-making is more important than your enjoying the
ambience of an anchorage where you and many others go to get away from
it all.

3) I'm not capable of enjoying life without being plugged into the grid
so I take the grid with me and make noise and pollute. If you don't
like it then go to hell. You can always move. Just because I anchored
half a boat length upwind of you doesn't give you any right to
complain. I'll damned well anchor and make noise anywhere I want!

4) I must be the center of attention. That's why when all the boats in
the anchorage are enjoying the peace and quiet I delight in making
noise for an hour or two or more at a time (even late at night) so I
can watch television or my wife can blow dry her hair. Nobody else
matters but me and mine! My desires outweigh those of the many.

5) If I'm not running the generator then my dog's constant barking
annoys me so I run the generator to drown out the noise of the barking.
And, when I'm not running my portable generator I've got my noisy wind
generator providing the racket. Never mind everybody else must listen
to all three! Other people don't matter to me.

6) The noise of my portable doesn't generally bother me and if it does
I just run it while I go to shore in the dinghy to do some sight
seeing. I don't give a hoot if you have to listen to it. If it bothers
you then try going to shore too.


These and other such reasons all come down to one very clear point -
You are a self-centered, rude, obnoxious jerk.

Wilbur Hubbard



I don't know if you are addressing me. All I wanted to know was if
anybody had any knowledge or experience with the safety aspects of
running a small, self-contained, Honda EU-2000i portable generator in
the cockpit of a boat.

I assume you don't have any knowledge or experience.

Thanks, anyway.

Eisboch

I'm not addressing you specifically but because you're even considering
running a portable generator you probably embody one or more of the above
selfish attributes. Either that or you just never gave it much thought.
You saw some other asshole doing it and you thought to yourself -"Hmmm,
maybe I should do that too." Well, DON'T! Not everybody these days is
deaf. Not everybody has ruined their ears with loud IPods and loud cell
phones. Portable generators have NO PLACE in an anchorage. Even the ones
people claim run quietly are very noisy. They are just so inconsiderate.
If you can't live without shore power on your boat then either stay home
or invest in a proper, water cooled and water muffled built-in generator
that exhausts at the waterline and makes no more noise than water lapping
on the hull. And if you run one of those be sure to anchor downwind of
everybody so the exhaust doesn't ruin the very clean air they've got a
right to breathe.

Wilbur Hubbard



I understand what you are saying. I have a question. Do you have any
idea of where the anchorage is that I am referring to?

Eisboch


I have no idea as to the whereabouts of the particular anchorage you have in
mind nor about any other anchorage you might frequent. But one thing I DO
know and it's the only thing that matters is it's high time people start
asserting their rights to clean air and peace and quiet in ANY anchorage
other than some big shipping anchorage which small yachts would have to be
daft to even consider using.

This trend towards constant unnecessary noise and air pollution in
anchorages the so-called civilized world needs to be reversed. People need
to speak out and take action. For example, a couple of years ago some
powerboat asshole anchored two boatlengths directly upwind of where I was
anchored for the night. There was lots of room and plenty more than that
downwind of me where he could have anchored half a mile away. But, noooo!
The jerk drops anchor right on top of me and then, right about sunset he
lugs a portable generator and a very loud one at that, sets it up on the
afterdeck and plugs in an extension cord. I could see a large screen
television go on in the main saloon and he had all the doors and windows
closed up tight indicating air conditioning (it was a hot evening).

I rowed over immediately and told him (I did not ask) to either move or shut
off the noise. He got real cranky and started yelling that he was sick of
people telling him what to do so I said again either move or shut the damned
thing off or I was going to come aboard and toss it into the drink. He was
old and fat and wouldn't have been able to stop me and he knew it.

He turned it off and then left about ten minutes later. Good riddance! This
is what it's come to in many anchorages due to rude, obnoxious selfish
people and I'm just not going to take it anymore.

Wilbur Hubbard