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From: Paul Saltzman (no email)
Date: Sun Aug 01 1999 - 08:35:31 EDT
Jim good story but what did you do? Are you now of another thought that
not paying is okay?
What could have been done is leaving a note and or a business card asking
the owner to contact you with the fee for a short overnight at his dock.
Odds are that they wouldn't bother but at least you did all you could to
avoid taking without permission...
Just a thought.
At 09:54 PM 7/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I watched this thread and didnt say anything because I lacked any
>experience with it.
>
>BUT.......I now have a very recent experience with it.
>
>My first thoughts were....I wouldnt want to bob someone of $30 and using a
>slip without paying is robbery. I now have a more enlightened view.
>
>We delivered a Catalina 27 from Seabrook to Corpus (225miles) the past
>three days. We traveled only during daylight (another story) and made 75
>miles a day in 11 hour days. We arived at one slip after everyone was
>gone. No one had any idea where they were and no one knew what the slip
>fees were, where the showers were (if any), there was no electricity, no
>water and no stores or restraunts. We were trying to maintain 75 miles a
>day and had to leave at first light.m Needless to say we never found the
>slip owner.
>
>Cheers
>
> Jim Isbell
>
>http://members.tripod.com/~Jim_Isbell/
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SMOOTH SAILING:
Paul Saltzman
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Kingston, NY
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