Boat Forum / Cruising / September 2005

  I am ever increasingly annoyed by the attitude and shear number of
baby boomer cruisers I have to encounter in my cruising travels.
  They are like cockroadhes everywhere, spreading their vile attitudes
and generally bringing down the quality of life of all world cruisers
just about everywhere.
  Its the same thing as the concept of a lost paradise due to all the
"lemmings" that move in to a nice area and destroy it.
  The idea of helping other boaters in distress is almost non existant
these days. Out of sheer anger and accumulated annoyance I watched a
Traweler go up on the rocks after it dragged its anchor. It sank. No
signs of life the next day. I could have intervened and hailed them on
the radio or knocked on the side of the hull but I truly believe I
would have been greeted with a nasty response or a mariner shotgun?
They sealed their own fate.
  The world is a better place without that couple.
 The good old days of manners are gone, it's every man for himself in
the cruising arena today. Dog eat dog.
                    Bob, friend to Capt Neal and other like minded
fellows of the sea.