Joe Zumpf
Member
Long poat warning, and a bit of a rant. We are in our second year at a new marina this year. Have the same slip we had last year, and we are the oddballs on the dock for sure. Smallest boat by far, the only ones who fish, and younger than most on the dock. That said, we get along with everyone around us. Plenty of friendly chat, we help anyone who may need it, and no issues when we are hauling a cooler of fish down the dock and they are socializing. They usually want to see what we hauled in. Being fisherman, we are usually in a month earlier than the rest of the dock, and a solid month after most everyone else.
We have a brand new neighbor this year, who have both slips to the north of me. We share the pier between my boat and his big boat. He seems new to boating, and bought two boats that both needed a lot of work. That's fine, we all work on our boats when needed, but one doesn't run, and the other (an 80's 34' sundancer) had no interior at all until this past week. Well, for the last 4 weeks now, every trip down to my boat results in me having to clear his crap out of the way so I can even get down our shared pier. Thats if he's there or not. Deflated dingy draped over my dock box and blocking the pier, pressure washer, leaky old outboard on a stand, and the icing on the cake is that he's had at least one, sometimes two dock carts left on the pier loaded with his stuff, one has been there filled with tools and supplies for two+ weeks, he's using it as a workbench now. His family has been down a couple times, and they are fully content sprawling out on the main dock where the fingers meet, and making everyone else tiptoe around them with no regard for them.
Two weeks ago I tried to make a couple friendly comments to him, trying to be nice, but obviously it isn't getting through. I almost feel like that's why it was the worst it's been when I got there Friday night. I mentioned it to the harbormaster this past Saturday as he asked why I was dropping my cooler off instead of wheeling it up like he's used to seeing, told him I can't get down my pier. Apparently there have already been several complaints made by people who aren't me. What had me concerned is that he made the comment that he would say something on my behalf, but the damn harbormaster is concerned about retaliation. I said you can see his mess almost from the office, shouldn't be that hard to just walk down when he's working on the boat driving the rest of the dock away. Talking with the neighbors, others have made comments as well, more direct than i have, and get the same blank stare I received with no change.
Harbormaster gave me the option to move slips, but we like our slip and rest of our dock, plus if I leave that doesn't address the actual problem. We have a 27' boat in a 45' slip, the space ia awesome. What would CSR do? Give a chance to have it addressed and try to be neighborly with the new family, or take the harbormaster up on his offer to move and get to another slip?
We have a brand new neighbor this year, who have both slips to the north of me. We share the pier between my boat and his big boat. He seems new to boating, and bought two boats that both needed a lot of work. That's fine, we all work on our boats when needed, but one doesn't run, and the other (an 80's 34' sundancer) had no interior at all until this past week. Well, for the last 4 weeks now, every trip down to my boat results in me having to clear his crap out of the way so I can even get down our shared pier. Thats if he's there or not. Deflated dingy draped over my dock box and blocking the pier, pressure washer, leaky old outboard on a stand, and the icing on the cake is that he's had at least one, sometimes two dock carts left on the pier loaded with his stuff, one has been there filled with tools and supplies for two+ weeks, he's using it as a workbench now. His family has been down a couple times, and they are fully content sprawling out on the main dock where the fingers meet, and making everyone else tiptoe around them with no regard for them.
Two weeks ago I tried to make a couple friendly comments to him, trying to be nice, but obviously it isn't getting through. I almost feel like that's why it was the worst it's been when I got there Friday night. I mentioned it to the harbormaster this past Saturday as he asked why I was dropping my cooler off instead of wheeling it up like he's used to seeing, told him I can't get down my pier. Apparently there have already been several complaints made by people who aren't me. What had me concerned is that he made the comment that he would say something on my behalf, but the damn harbormaster is concerned about retaliation. I said you can see his mess almost from the office, shouldn't be that hard to just walk down when he's working on the boat driving the rest of the dock away. Talking with the neighbors, others have made comments as well, more direct than i have, and get the same blank stare I received with no change.
Harbormaster gave me the option to move slips, but we like our slip and rest of our dock, plus if I leave that doesn't address the actual problem. We have a 27' boat in a 45' slip, the space ia awesome. What would CSR do? Give a chance to have it addressed and try to be neighborly with the new family, or take the harbormaster up on his offer to move and get to another slip?
Or it would be so sad if something was accidentally dropped in the river.
