Quite true about that area being territorial!
Only can handle so many boats up by the docks... a bit of a mooring ball mine field. Further from town you get, the lower the congestion. (Perhaps why folks want to stake a claim?)
Occasionally though I'll see folks with three anchors set pretending to be a mooring. "What me? Move? You know how hard that'd be..."
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I was a little surprised that the weekend before last the docks were practically empty. Weather was beautiful... A few mega yachts laying along side, but hardly anybody in the slips.