A day in the life of boats in a marina can be exciting or just boring. Today was exciting enough to have an audience from everywhere! As Paul and I are in our flybridge washing the inflatible we see a large Viking Sport fishing boat outside of the marina floundering with a small motorboat beside it. For the first few moments we think nothing of it as we didn't realize at the time that this small boat thought it could tow a 80,000 pound Viking Sport fish boat! Not going to happen!! Yikes, so before we could scramble and grasp what was happening it is veering towards us and our friend's boat beside us, Tom and Annie. Our eyes enlarged big time with worry! Paul goes to our bow and I scramble out of our boat to Tom and Annie's boat to their bow (there were away). Fenders are untied, instructions and words are exchanged and the Viking comes to a halt inches (maybe 12) from our bow. The Viking tied their bow to a post right across us to the dock but their line was quite long.
They only stayed a few minutes to try to get their engines going. I wished I asked them why not just drop your anchor out there? Hmmmm, the simplest of things are not thought of?! However, their boat was a beautiful boat, we just didn't want to see their swim platform so close.
We have zero snow but below average temps, sweater weather here, no bathing suits!
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