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I know there was an extensive discussion on this topic not long ago, but what I saw over the weekend is worth telling.
We share the cost of a seasonal mooring with the boat next to us at our marina. It is a pleasant place to go for a day or weekend and it is appropriately sized to hold two 40 ft boats.
It is extremely annoying that more often than not, we need to tell someone to remove their boat from our mooring so that we can tie up there ourselves. On Saturday, we were rafted up there for the weekend at near high tide. Around mid-afternoon, the breeze picked up a little and I pointed out two boats that were near us seemed to be fairly close to shore. One appeared to be a late model EastBay and the other a fairly new Silverton 34-36 convertible. Within minutes, both boats had their sterns in the weeds.
At about the same time, the pumpout boat came by and approached the now beaching vessels. Apparently nobody was aboard either of them. He called for help and the harbor patrol and Sea Tow arrived as did the owner of the EastBay. They managed to get the EastBay free but the Silverton was hung up on the rocks. The owner showed up when it was about half out of the water. On the North Shore of LI, the tidal difference can be as much as 8-9ft especially on a moon tide so the boat was completely out of the water and propped up on the rocks when the tide hit the low point. They had to wait until around 1am for the high in order to float it off. It was then towed off to a marina.
So these two boat owners picked up a mooring that was not theirs and was weighted for a much smaller boat. (we have only seen small boats tied up there, possibly owned by one of the homeowners) Apparently, they left in their dinks to go to the beach or a restaurant and the mooring did not hold when the wind kicked up.
At least one of those boats likely has damaged running gear and is lucky if there is no hull damage and the owner of the mooring is out the use of his mooring and maybe the cost to replace/repair it.
This is another argument for the "If it doesn't belong to you, don't use it" position.
Oh...and it appeared that the EastBay moved out into the mooring field and picked up another mooring so they could wait for the Silverton to be re-floated.
We share the cost of a seasonal mooring with the boat next to us at our marina. It is a pleasant place to go for a day or weekend and it is appropriately sized to hold two 40 ft boats.
It is extremely annoying that more often than not, we need to tell someone to remove their boat from our mooring so that we can tie up there ourselves. On Saturday, we were rafted up there for the weekend at near high tide. Around mid-afternoon, the breeze picked up a little and I pointed out two boats that were near us seemed to be fairly close to shore. One appeared to be a late model EastBay and the other a fairly new Silverton 34-36 convertible. Within minutes, both boats had their sterns in the weeds.
At about the same time, the pumpout boat came by and approached the now beaching vessels. Apparently nobody was aboard either of them. He called for help and the harbor patrol and Sea Tow arrived as did the owner of the EastBay. They managed to get the EastBay free but the Silverton was hung up on the rocks. The owner showed up when it was about half out of the water. On the North Shore of LI, the tidal difference can be as much as 8-9ft especially on a moon tide so the boat was completely out of the water and propped up on the rocks when the tide hit the low point. They had to wait until around 1am for the high in order to float it off. It was then towed off to a marina.
So these two boat owners picked up a mooring that was not theirs and was weighted for a much smaller boat. (we have only seen small boats tied up there, possibly owned by one of the homeowners) Apparently, they left in their dinks to go to the beach or a restaurant and the mooring did not hold when the wind kicked up.
At least one of those boats likely has damaged running gear and is lucky if there is no hull damage and the owner of the mooring is out the use of his mooring and maybe the cost to replace/repair it.
This is another argument for the "If it doesn't belong to you, don't use it" position.
Oh...and it appeared that the EastBay moved out into the mooring field and picked up another mooring so they could wait for the Silverton to be re-floated.