View Single Post
Old 04-07-2013, 05:40 PM   #10
markpierce
Master and Commander
 
markpierce's Avatar
 
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
Most boats in my marina rarely if ever leave berth. This includes a couple of sloops where the mainsails are left uncovered on the boom. carelessly, as if left in a hurry. There are boats with what could be a decade's accumulation of bird droppings. Some boats are in disrepair and are slowly "dissolving."

My next-door berth neighbor has a 43-foot motorboat, and I have only known him to take the boat out once in two years. His wife is wheelchair-bound, and she moaned in pain getting off the boat. I see him every few months when he visits/washes his boat. Yeah, age, health, etcetera issues keeps people away from their boats, and the dream is hard to abandon.
__________________
Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
markpierce is offline   Reply With Quote