"Larry" wrote

Talk to your neighbors, Roger, and ask 'em about rafting the boats
together
for these storms. It's to everyone's advantage to safely get them
away
from the docks.

That would be nice but this seems to be the marina where the nimrods
berth. You hardly see anyone there checking their boats during the
storms. I see frayed lines, tell the operators, they call the owners.
Several boat sunk last year simply by chafing holes in their hulls.
The owners, most of whom never heard of spring lines, couldn't figure
out how this could happen.

I haven't had a slip neighbor yet but I tired to work out a system
that wouldn't depend or infringe on him in case he turned out to be
the difficult type.

Guy across the finger from me had all his lines tied on my cleats. He
also has two shore power cords plugged in. Why a 28 foot plastic
fantastic need all that juice is beyond me. It's a pain because
there's only one outlet left now and I need to leave my cord plugged
in all the time to be sure I'll have power when I need it. A couple
people have taken the outside berths which don't have their own outlet
box. This leaves six boats using four outlets (seven if you count the
twofer twice). One of the guys on the outside has screwed his
shorepower cord down to the dock so I guess he is serious about using
it

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Roger Long