OzOne wrote in message ...
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:47:50 GMT, "Capt. Mooron"
scribbled thusly:

Heh... I've cut several moorings in my time.

CM

I'm surprised someone hasn't shot you.

Everyone knows I pack and will return fire....

As an aside.... this idiot decided to place his new mooring right next to
mine in Yellowknife Bay. It was so close that both vessels would impact beam
to on their swing radius. I asked him to place it further away but he
insisted that the location was perfect for him and suggested if I was
nervous .. I should pull my established mooring and move it. I just walked
down into the cabin of my boat and waited till he went back to shore to move
his sailboat out to new mooring. I dove over the side with my 3' bolt
cutters and I cut the chain at the base while he was gone. I was toweled off
and enjoying a drink in the cockpit when he returned with his boat... his
mooring ball was drifting out to the lake in the breeze. He paid a diver
[after trying to hire me to replace the chain] to hook it back up... I cut
it agin within 30 minutes of the diver leaving. He showed up again and his
mooring ball was gone... so the idiot drops a hook!!

Now Overproof has a steel toerail.... and the wind was shifty that night....
I woke that night to my boat smacking into his broadside and it seems his
hull got all scratched up. When I got out on deck he was trying to fend my
boat off... wanna know what he said... he yelled at me and told me to move
my boat! I'm on a mooring! He's anchored! I pulled a bottle of rum out....
loaded my Mossburg .12 ga. and told him I would place 8 slugs to his
waterline if he scratched my toerail. I fired a shot into the air and he
pulled anchor and left. Never saw him in the mooring field again!
He belonged to my yacht club.... he eventually fell off his boat when he
was drunk and drowned. He was a Frenchman!

CM



CM