In article , Jeff wrote:
Capt. Rob wrote:
So tell us Bob, are you the type of "cruiser" that always stays at
slips, or are you the type that runs a genset all night?


I'll let you know. We never had a genset before and we usually anchored
out. We took a slip at Centerport once but that was when Suzanne was 7
months pregnant. Otherwise we anchored or stole a mooring late.
We're actually taking a wait and see attitude about the genset. I have
access to a nice one, but won't install it if we decide it's not
needed. My friend has one on his Tayana and another on a C&C 34+. They
love running the AC on the more brutally hot nights.

I'm sure the people on the next mooring over love it also. Only
assholes run gensets in busy anchorages. I know - you'll claim you
would only use it if no one else is around - that's what they all say.

When I was in the Med, we had to pull into one of the commercial ports
on Sardinia. We were, amoung other things, having trouble with the
genset, which meant that refridgeration was becoming an issue (Summer
blues). We were up quite late running it, starting, stopping,
tinkering, etc. There were a couple of large tugs down the peer from
us. In the morning, we ran into one of the operators, who complained
in broken English about us making noise. He was quite nice about it
actually, and offered his mechanic's services to help us get it fixed.

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