"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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You make a statement when you run a portable generator in an anchorage.
As a matter of fact you make at least half a dozen statements:


1) My 120 volt frivolities are more important than your peace and quiet.

2) My unnecessary noise-making is more important than your enjoying the
ambience of an anchorage where you and many others go to get away from it
all.

3) I'm not capable of enjoying life without being plugged into the grid
so I take the grid with me and make noise and pollute. If you don't like
it then go to hell. You can always move. Just because I anchored half a
boat length upwind of you doesn't give you any right to complain. I'll
damned well anchor and make noise anywhere I want!

4) I must be the center of attention. That's why when all the boats in
the anchorage are enjoying the peace and quiet I delight in making noise
for an hour or two or more at a time (even late at night) so I can watch
television or my wife can blow dry her hair. Nobody else matters but me
and mine! My desires outweigh those of the many.

5) If I'm not running the generator then my dog's constant barking annoys
me so I run the generator to drown out the noise of the barking. And,
when I'm not running my portable generator I've got my noisy wind
generator providing the racket. Never mind everybody else must listen to
all three! Other people don't matter to me.

6) The noise of my portable doesn't generally bother me and if it does I
just run it while I go to shore in the dinghy to do some sight seeing. I
don't give a hoot if you have to listen to it. If it bothers you then try
going to shore too.


These and other such reasons all come down to one very clear point - You
are a self-centered, rude, obnoxious jerk.

Wilbur Hubbard



I don't know if you are addressing me. All I wanted to know was if
anybody had any knowledge or experience with the safety aspects of running
a small, self-contained, Honda EU-2000i portable generator in the cockpit
of a boat.

I assume you don't have any knowledge or experience.

Thanks, anyway.

Eisboch

I'm not addressing you specifically but because you're even considering
running a portable generator you probably embody one or more of the above
selfish attributes. Either that or you just never gave it much thought. You
saw some other asshole doing it and you thought to yourself -"Hmmm, maybe I
should do that too." Well, DON'T! Not everybody these days is deaf. Not
everybody has ruined their ears with loud IPods and loud cell phones.
Portable generators have NO PLACE in an anchorage. Even the ones people
claim run quietly are very noisy. They are just so inconsiderate. If you
can't live without shore power on your boat then either stay home or invest
in a proper, water cooled and water muffled built-in generator that exhausts
at the waterline and makes no more noise than water lapping on the hull. And
if you run one of those be sure to anchor downwind of everybody so the
exhaust doesn't ruin the very clean air they've got a right to breathe.

Wilbur Hubbard