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I have heard both camps on this, but wanted to field it to a less-than-local group of sailors.
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It's basically an argument. Perhaps the CF staff could all get together and make an official letter of Cruisers forum sanction. I'm not sure you get get someone to move with it. The sort of unofficial word I would agree with is if you have a mooring you are entitled to sufficient room to use it. Unless someone wanted to contest the right to set the mooring in the first place. Once it's there and some boat comes along you pretty much are stuck accepting that it has a right to be there or fighting that point officially. Sort of a put up or shut up.
If you are a local then you can fight the right to stick down a moorings but it becomes more a local / official protest. For a stranger in town I would have to say you don't mess with a mooring owned by a local. It might be the Sheriffs son-in-law.
When you are not a local you only have the right to leave - now. You really can't afford a string of lawsuits every where you go. After a while they know you are coming.