Don't open that locker!

[Hudson Force]

Originally Posted by Schooner Chandlery

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..................... That particular fellow, a self-employed rigger I suppose, was just looking for his next mark.

Right, I understand,- maybe the term, "vendor" was extra polite on your part.

Newfoundland was mentioned as a location where people are particularly nice. Actually, I find these particularly nice people everywhere. Most often when they are local people with deep roots in their community. I find it doesn't really matter geographically except when you find yourself in an area full of people who are not part of an established community and looking for the quick money! I find places flooded with temporary tourists as a problem. This would make Florida subject to suspicion compared to say, Nova Scotia, but if you take yourself off the ICW "snowbird" trail you can find yourself among people as helpful and friendly as anywhere else.

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

Right, I understand,- maybe the term, "vendor" was extra polite on your part.

Newfoundland was mentioned as a location where people are particularly nice. Actually, I find these particularly nice people everywhere. Most often when they are local people with deep roots in their community. I find it doesn't really matter geographically except when you find yourself in an area full of people who are not part of an established community and looking for the quick money! I find places flooded with temporary tourists as a problem. This would make Florida subject to suspicion compared to say, Nova Scotia, but if you take yourself off the ICW "snowbird" trail you can find yourself among people as helpful and friendly as anywhere else.

People are people. Nova Scotia, Florida or the PNW. Or the Australians or South Africans.

[thinwater]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

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Boaters find boats interesting, even the boats they don't even like.

[Schooner Chandlery]

You're right about deep roots. The friendliest most helpful, caring and trustworthy people I have experienced were the multigenerational families we were surrounded by in the little neighborhood we lived in DC for 13 yrs. Lovely people who we still keep in touch with. Some of them had families who had been there since the late 1800's. Not on the water though. ☹


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[44'cruisingcat]

Some people seem to think boats are public property. We've had people swim out to our boat and swing off the dinghy hoisting lines. Kayak under the bridgedeck between the hulls. One guy swam out and knocked really hard on the hull as if he was trying to see if he could dent it.


Fishermen bouncing lures off the sides.... and they get real upset if you walk out and tell them to **** off.... one day I'll follow one back to the boat ramp and start firing lures at his car...


It's weird, they just don't seem to get that a boat is private property, just like their car is.

[Schooner Chandlery]

😄 thanks for the mental image of you bouncing lures off his car.


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[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by hpeer

Maybe it depends upon where you sail. I find things old school in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

+1

On our last big sail through the Great Lakes we ran into engine issues. At one marina they welcomed us, let us stay for free for over a week for free. Our boat attracted a fair bit of local attention. Plenty of respectful, interested people. We gave lots of tours. No negative experiences. Even heard a three-year-old girl exclaim to her father. "Daddy, look at the pirate boat. It's a pirate boat!"

At another village dock we got storm-bound. Docking was cheap, but they only took cash. By the third day we had run out. Dockmaster said not to worry ... "stay as long as you need to." We even offered to mail him the fee. "Oh, don't worry about it."

Another Lake and another problem. Pull in. Dockmaster directs us to an open slip. "How much?" says I. "Oh, just stay there as long as you need to. The dock's already paid for (by a previous occupant)...". Local shop sends down their diesel mechanic. Sorts us out for a fair price. No up-sell. Only asks us to pick him up a 40-pounder of rum b/c we were going to the local liquor store. He paid for his rum. Oh, and he lent us his car so we could get there. And this after having known us for a whole 1/2 hr.

Maybe you really are travelling in the wrong areas Schooner.

[Garrettw]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

+1



On our last big sail through the Great Lakes we ran into engine issues. At one marina they welcomed us, let us stay for free for over a week for free. Our boat attracted a fair bit of local attention. Plenty of respectful, interested people. We gave lots of tours. No negative experiences. Even heard a three-year-old girl exclaim to her father. "Daddy, look at the pirate boat. It's a pirate boat!"



At another village dock we got storm-bound. Docking was cheap, but they only took cash. By the third day we had run out. Dockmaster said not to worry ... "stay as long as you need to." We even offered to mail him the fee. "Oh, don't worry about it."



Another Lake and another problem. Pull in. Dockmaster directs us to an open slip. "How much?" says I. "Oh, just stay there as long as you need to. The dock's already paid for (by a previous occupant)...". Local shop sends down their diesel mechanic. Sorts us out for a fair price. No up-sell. Only asks us to pick him up a 40-pounder of rum b/c we were going to the local liquor store. He paid for his rum. Oh, and he lent us his car so we could get there. And this after having known us for a whole 1/2 hr.



Maybe you really are travelling in the wrong areas Schooner.

Mike, I'm detecting a theme in your cruising adventures...

😀

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by Garrettw

Mike, I'm detecting a theme in your cruising adventures...😀

Yes ... I suck as a diesel mechanic

[darylat8750]

" at least up in the charthouse when at anchor."

UP IN THE CHARTHOUSE!????

OK I admit it. I want a tour of your boat.

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

+1

On our last big sail through the Great Lakes we ran into engine issues. At one marina they welcomed us, let us stay for free for over a week for free. Our boat attracted a fair bit of local attention. Plenty of respectful, interested people. We gave lots of tours. No negative experiences. Even heard a three-year-old girl exclaim to her father. "Daddy, look at the pirate boat. It's a pirate boat!"

At another village dock we got storm-bound. Docking was cheap, but they only took cash. By the third day we had run out. Dockmaster said not to worry ... "stay as long as you need to." We even offered to mail him the fee. "Oh, don't worry about it."

Another Lake and another problem. Pull in. Dockmaster directs us to an open slip. "How much?" says I. "Oh, just stay there as long as you need to. The dock's already paid for (by a previous occupant)...". Local shop sends down their diesel mechanic. Sorts us out for a fair price. No up-sell. Only asks us to pick him up a 40-pounder of rum b/c we were going to the local liquor store. He paid for his rum. Oh, and he lent us his car so we could get there. And this after having known us for a whole 1/2 hr.

Maybe you really are travelling in the wrong areas Schooner.

The cruising world as opposed to staying at home. As an "exotic", you are usually welcomed, and folks go out of t heir way to be helpful to you. Giving a few boat tours and cups of coffee in exchange is part of the fun.

Jim

[Schooner Chandlery]

Originally Posted by darylat8750

" at least up in the charthouse when at anchor."



UP IN THE CHARTHOUSE!????



OK I admit it. I want a tour of your boat.

Don't go being too impressed.

The chart house is a low and small pilothouse (sans steering except we can use the autopilot control from inside there nicely) that you as a modern sailor might call a cabin and people sailing when the boat was launched might call a deck saloon but the boat plans call it a chart house (guess the original fellow was proud of his nav table) so that's what we also call it.


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[Schooner Chandlery]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

Yes ... I suck as a diesel mechanic

We always feel bad if anything is amiss with boat or car as I'm the daughter of a diesel mechanic married to the grandson of a diesel mechanic--both of us originally from the Great Lakes region where people ARE pretty nice. We should buddy boat-what do you bring to the convoy? Will you protect me from the underwear drawer opening looky Lous?


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[Schooner Chandlery]

PS all: I will have to start a thread on the kindness of strangers too. We have experienced plenty of that while traveling too. I stand firm in my concerns that it is best to only let vetted strangers aboard and to be careful of much beyond the cockpit until I know more about them and their ways. Don't I sound like a paranoid old woman? Lol


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[JPA Cate]

Originally Posted by Schooner Chandlery

PS all: I will have to start a thread on the kindness of strangers too. We have experienced plenty of that while traveling too. I stand firm in my concerns that it is best to only let vetted strangers aboard and to be careful of much beyond the cockpit until I know more about them and their ways. Don't I sound like a paranoid old woman? Lol


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Nah, merely a realist. Trust in Allah, but tie your camel to a tree.... The Lord helps those who help themselves, etc.

Ann