"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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Used to keep my sailboat at out-of-the-way places with no other boats
and no facilities at all. However, for the past two years I have kept
her at the local yacht club with a clubhouse, a nice dock, water,
power (still dont use power), ice, etc. Recently, I was offered a
dock at half the price of my current slip and considered it for awhile
and then turned it down. Basically, I like having these niceties and
I like occasionally seeing other boaters around to commiserate with.
Following the bad examples of the other boaters around me, I am
actually going to pay a diver to clean my boats bottom instead of
doing it myself. Am not sure if this is the result of old age or just
general wimpiness but still havent succumbed to using shore power.


I crewed on a Viking 28 and then a Mirage 33 for 5 years and even though the
boat was kept at the nicest yacht squadron in the East at a slip, we only
used shore power a half dozen times while working on the boat. We did have
the proper cord and connectors, although I found the cord about 8 feet short
when the sailboat was in bow first. It reached the proper connector on the
boat but was kind or streatched & strung tight.
The hull would be cleaned each fall at haulout time... but not much was ever
there due to the anti-fouling paint.