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23-09-2017, 17:02
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Location: Chicopee, MA
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Guess not all boat people are nice!
From USA TODAY
'Ghost boat's' owner is in Key West jail on attempted-murder charges, officials say
The abandoned 45-foot sailboat Cuki was reported Tuesday morning on the sand near Melbourne Beach
https://usat.ly/2yjHbNM
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23-09-2017, 17:44
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Port Ludlow Wa
Boat: Makela,Ingrid38,Idora
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
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24-09-2017, 04:24
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,479
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Yes, unfortunately there are unsavory characters in the boating community too. A cruiser was murdered by another sailor for his boat in the San Blas a few years ago.
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24-09-2017, 06:26
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Pensacola Florida
Boat: 1984 Moody 27
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
No, They're not all nice. However, I would venture to say that a great majority of them will risk life and limb to help you and save your boat. I can't begin to count the number of times people have stopped to ask if I needed assistance, called to tell me there was an issue in an anchorage, or just offered food and drink because they were having lunch.
My experience has been that most are indeed very nice.
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24-09-2017, 06:51
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Bumping around the Caribbean
Boat: Valiant 40
Posts: 4,625
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Christmas Island is a magnet for not nice boat owners.
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24-09-2017, 07:03
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2017
Boat: Retired from CF
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
So is Thailand
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24-09-2017, 08:10
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Boat: GibSea 472
Posts: 520
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
When you see what happened in the supermarkets where customers started to fight to get the maximum bottled water cases, some of them piling cartfull of those cases without regard to others, when you see the looters rampaging in Texas and Florida, you have the feeling that in places, civilised behavior is most of the time a very thin varnish that hardly covers the the savagery that lies just under. Or is this having to do with a society where individualism and greed and the main social values.
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24-09-2017, 08:21
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
That will be stripped clean in a month. There will be nothing left but a fibre glass hull.
Just sayn'.
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24-09-2017, 08:29
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2017
Boat: Retired from CF
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elie
Or is this having to do with a society where individualism and greed are the main social values.
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No IMO all "civilization" is a very thin fragile veneer. Remove its infrastructure, survival truly at stake, the idealistic niceties go out the window and humans quickly revert to animal savagery.
No effective prepping for that on a large scale, and not a world I'd want to survive in anyway.
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24-09-2017, 08:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Isla Saboga, Las Perlas, Panama
Boat: 1988 48' Offshore
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Boat people tend to be one of two types: those who categorize people into groups and those who don't. :-)
But seriously, most boat people are into boating because they love the life-style and would do anything to help out a fellow boater.
However, there are a significant number of wierdos who are living the solitary life of a live-aboard boater only because they can't deal well with the rest of society. On land they would be homeless; or eccentric neighbors who will have nothing to do with anyone else; or in jail for domestic abuse, etc. We all know the type, and boating is not immune.
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24-09-2017, 08:35
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Toronto
Boat: Small yellow rubber ducky
Posts: 706
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
"The thin veneer of civilization "
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24-09-2017, 08:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Bellingham, WA
Boat: Bruce Roberts 44' Steel Mauritius
Posts: 919
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Ever heard of pirates?
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24-09-2017, 08:52
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Location: So Cal
Boat: Beneteau 38 Nordlund 72, Marquess 55, Jenneau 49
Posts: 541
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Quote:
Originally Posted by magellanyachts
Ever heard of pirates?
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Ever see Dead Calm?
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24-09-2017, 08:54
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Location: So Cal
Boat: Beneteau 38 Nordlund 72, Marquess 55, Jenneau 49
Posts: 541
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elie
When you see what happened in the supermarkets where customers started to fight to get the maximum bottled water cases, some of them piling cartfull of those cases without regard to others, when you see the looters rampaging in Texas and Florida, you have the feeling that in places, civilised behavior is most of the time a very thin varnish that hardly covers the the savagery that lies just under. Or is this having to do with a society where individualism and greed and the main social values.
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Like that guy that was videoed in Florida taking more than his ration of flat screen TV's
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24-09-2017, 10:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: North Charleston, SC
Boat: Camano Troll
Posts: 5,176
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Re: Guess not all boat people are nice!
Boat people are like people in general. Some are nice, some are not. The prospect of living on a derelict boat for free attracts more than its share of "not nice" people.
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