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