Almost 5 years ago, I got nailed in my slip by a 45' sailboat at full throttle. She hit at my bow under the portlight. I was on the bow washing the boat. When the sailboat hit, it took a nosedive along my bow and then popped back up and floated backwards. I had a couple of vertical gouges down the side of my boat, but the sailboat's steel pulpit broke in two - that's what caused the gouging - the raw metal scraping down the side of my boat.
The uninsured, asshole sailboat owner who kept his boat on my dock just a few slips down, tried to find someone to repair my boat, but he could not find anyone to do it on the water, and neither could I. When I had the repairs done three months later at a time when I was going to the yard for some other maintenance, he complained and complained about how much it cost to fix my boat. Hey, I saved him the cost of a haulout, but I guess it wasn't good enough. What an ASS! As he reluctantly handed me the check to pay the yard bill so I could launch my boat, he said, "Next time, ask them to leave out the gold flecks in the paint, will ya?" Followed by, "And don't forget to invite me to the party." This guy hits me in my slip, has no insurance, and then wants to bitch about the repair costs? Really????
This is the same guy who was too cheap to put in a seawater pump for his AC, so he was using the dock's freshwater to run through his boat to make his AC work, whether he was on the boat or not. Imagine the marina's water bill...and you know that increased expense eventually gets passed on to the rest of us through increased dock rates. So, seeing this an imaging how I'm going to have to pay for that eventually, every time I saw him doing that, I shut off his water as did the marina personnel when I told the marina what he was doing. He eventually got kicked out of the marina... and had to buy new AC, as I suspect his got burned up from restarting all the time with no cooling water.
Hatt 1; Sailboat 0
