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