So, we've been cruising around the San Juan Islands getting a few items organized on the boat. We finally have everything organized (the dinghy took a little too long but..,) and decided that we'd head into Canada. We cleared in at Sidney, spent a spectacular day there and then thought we might visit Ganges the next day.
Although they list their hours as beginning at 9:00 am we couldn't get anyone to pick up the phone before about 10:30 am.
We asked if they could accommodate us and got a "no problem" from the woman who answered our call.
When asked what our boat was I answered "an American Tug 395" because, well that is what it is...
Anyway, we were directed to B dock and slip 21.
We get there and note that the electrical hookups are way too far away for us to access. There are lots of empty slips so we simply move over to the next slip where we can access the electrical outlet.
The dock is kind of grungy, the electrical outlets are not working and the breakers are loose in the box...kind of scary.
I decide to walk to the dock house to see if we might find a better slip.
In the middle of my asking about a slip with two 30's or a 50 amp outlet that I might split a dock hand glanced at our boat and said something about his dock having shrunk.
He ran down to the dock with a wheeled measuring device and proceeded to measure our boat from about 3 feet behind the swim platform to ahead of the bow and said "you're 45' long"....
I said that no we were not. We were about 41' when I measured tip to swim platform give or take a few inches for parallax.
He accused me of lying!
All I wanted was a decent slip with working electrical!
This idiot couldn't wait to show me that I was somehow trying to get up on the marina somehow and actually referred to me as "busted"...
So, we took in our lines, left Canada for Roche Harbor, checked back into the US and will spend the evening here.
Hope they actually sell some dock space today but it won't be to us!
I have never lied or misrepresented the size of our boat to save a buck and that is about how much dockage is running in the area, a buck a foot...
Amazing!
Bruce
Although they list their hours as beginning at 9:00 am we couldn't get anyone to pick up the phone before about 10:30 am.
We asked if they could accommodate us and got a "no problem" from the woman who answered our call.
When asked what our boat was I answered "an American Tug 395" because, well that is what it is...
Anyway, we were directed to B dock and slip 21.
We get there and note that the electrical hookups are way too far away for us to access. There are lots of empty slips so we simply move over to the next slip where we can access the electrical outlet.
The dock is kind of grungy, the electrical outlets are not working and the breakers are loose in the box...kind of scary.
I decide to walk to the dock house to see if we might find a better slip.
In the middle of my asking about a slip with two 30's or a 50 amp outlet that I might split a dock hand glanced at our boat and said something about his dock having shrunk.
He ran down to the dock with a wheeled measuring device and proceeded to measure our boat from about 3 feet behind the swim platform to ahead of the bow and said "you're 45' long"....
I said that no we were not. We were about 41' when I measured tip to swim platform give or take a few inches for parallax.
He accused me of lying!
All I wanted was a decent slip with working electrical!
This idiot couldn't wait to show me that I was somehow trying to get up on the marina somehow and actually referred to me as "busted"...
So, we took in our lines, left Canada for Roche Harbor, checked back into the US and will spend the evening here.
Hope they actually sell some dock space today but it won't be to us!
I have never lied or misrepresented the size of our boat to save a buck and that is about how much dockage is running in the area, a buck a foot...
Amazing!
Bruce