LandfallVoyages

Not the Moorings yacht charter folks, I don’t know anything about them.

I love having the boat out on a mooring as opposed to tied up to a dock.

At the dock, nice people walk by, look in a little sometimes, say hi sometimes, want to talk boats, ask nice questions, compliment us on our nice boat. We have endless electricity at the dock. We can pump out our poop tank easily at the dock. All the water we need is right there. Showers, laundry, a coke machine, it’s all right there.

Sometimes some very nice person, whoever owns that dock, will ask us to change this or that, or move this or that, clean this or that. Some other nice person will ask us to move the boat. Somebody else may hand us a bill or a receipt. They’re all perfectly nice but it’s pretty non-stop.

On a mooring, out in the middle of the bay anchored by a HUGE chain attached to a HUGE concrete block, things are less convenient. We have to carry laundry to the inflatable, untie it, start it, motor across, tie it up again and then we start where we would have already been if we were at the dock. We must monitor our electricity usage. The boat rocks around more. It’s more dangerous. We have to move the boat so we can pump out the poo.

It is so worth it.

You cannot beat the view. From anywhere. It’s very quiet and soooo relaxing. It is just much much better. Nobody ever drops by to chat, nobody peeks in the goddamned windows, nobody stops by with a bill, nobody asks us to move.

We love it.