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I'll have to agree with the porta potty comment. My girlfriend used to make me stop in the middle of a shipping channel in Lake Erie so she could duck down into the cuddy and go. I always insisted she hold it until we got out of the channel. But one day when the Jet Express ferry boat came thru and made a 4 ft wake, she got tossed around the cabin she now knows why it's important to go beforehand, or at least let me get out of a busy traffic area. :)

I'll also agree with the "moochers" who don't offer anything. Even worse when they don't even offer to help throw lines to dock. Luckily I don't have many of those "friends" anymore.

Adding on to woodward33's comment: I can't stand people that don't understand boats and don't think about things like water current and waves. I invited one of my friends and his wife on board. They said they'd bring drinks. They showed up with a bottle of wine, and 4 GLASS glasses. We threw anchor and were set, and some jerk in a go-fast went past us about 50 yards away at about 70mph. (typical on the Ohio River) This of course, caused the boat to rock, which led to my guest's wine glasses sliding right off the dash, crashing into the non-skid floor and shattering into a million tiny shards of glass in the cockpit. That took me days to get cleaned up. The same people came out with us again, and said they'd bring food this time. They brought homemade sushi. Sushi's hard enough to eat on the land, let alone while getting tossed up and down, and side to side...Needless to say, containers of soy sauce got spilled all over my new carpet and the sunpad. :rolleyes:

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Is that why you bought a 2nd boat? Just so you had one to use while the other was being cleaned? :rolling_laugh:

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No glass is EVER allowed on my boat unless their 1/2 gallons. We've found 2 good wines that come in collapsible containers my wife likes.

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I guess mine would have to be guests that bring kids that love to jump all over every seat like the whole boat is a giant trampoline! And my others are the idiots that think it is sooooo cool to do a "fly by" at full throttle right next to boats at anchor/beached or tied off to one another. That happened to us when we had our Wellcraft cruiser. We were at anchor and tied off with fenders to another cruiser. Another boat decided to cruise by at 40mph and the wake slammed our boats together and ripped my rub rail right out of the hull. I immediately ran to the bow and started to frantically pull in my anchor to chase after the moron, but my wife convinced me otherwise....

Oh, and 2 boat ramp pet peeves:

Most ramps have a staging area. It is there for a reason. Use it. Do not pull your boat to the ramp and then decide to load your crap into the boat!
Larger boats need to make wide turns and pull well forward of the ramp to back down it straight. This is not a green light for some idiot with a jet ski or a flats boat to whip in behind you and take the ramp.

Whew...I feel much better now! Thanks for creating this thread!!!



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I arrived at the slipway one time last year to find a family having a picnic there! Right at the water’s edge.... tables, chairs BBQ the lot.
Somehow they seemed to think I was being unreasonable when I backed my trailer down the ramp right where they had set up.....
OK I could have gone to the side of them, but HELL NO was I going too.:big_chuckle:

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That's my new rule too. Plus, they now make the majority of my favorites in plastic 750's. And what they don't make, I'll just transfer into one ;)

And mikeyt... haha good one... i definitely don't own two boats by choice. my checking account balance tells me that every day. hopefully with the season coming up, the Z250 will get some more serious lookers and not just low ballers and tire kickers.

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I've found all of these things to be remedied by just not inviting people that aren't already boaters.
So, my pete peeve is that even though we know this full well... my fiance still invites non-boaters from time to time just to make sure the theory is still sound. :rolleyes:

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is that like serf inflicted torture for the obvious ?? Like holding the hammer and the nail, knowing your going to hit your finger ?

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I suppose I've been lucky most the time. When people come out on my boat they bring plenty of beverages and good food. We did have an incident with some fruit punch drink being spilled last summer. Once was enough. No more red solo cups!!
The first thing that came to mind would have to be the folks that "rope off" coves. Example: A boater will rope off a cove on Friday so that they have it all weekend to themselves. I use to run into this while fishing. They run a rope from one side of shore to the other an hang fenders or orange flags on it. Come Saturday they will have their boat in place and have a 100 yards of cove roped off for their own personal use making it impossible to access the distal region of the cove... Its freaking rude.

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Great thread idea! Most of mine have already been covered by others here.

Dogs! I love dogs too, but I don't want others dogs puncturing my sunpad and seats. Whenever i'm rafted up it always seems there is one guy (who usually is not a boat owner) want to walk across everyones boat to get to another with his dog.

I certainly get ill when someone wants to go out on the boat and hands me a $20 (or even worse a $10) after a day of running.

Shoes ( and believe it or not HEELS) walking on the sunpad and seats.

Leaving for long ride and everyone filling up their non covered cups with red wine or mixed drinks. Bring a 'bubba' cup or something. I now keep quite a few on my boat for these people. Beer doesn't drive me as crazy as I just ask them to keep their thumb on the top when they are not actually drinking it.

Cigarettes DONT happen on my boat and I get pissed when someone tries to question it because they are outside. Give me $2000 to cover my upholstery when you burn it please usually shuts them up.

That's about all I have off the top of my head.