I live in the Bay of Islanads, New Zealand and we are behind the times so a dinghy or small boat or beach cat can legally be left on any of the reserves on the waters edge at no cost.
Mast up storage is easy. Living here and making money is not so easy. So there are not that many people. These are good things for my life.
My rant is this.
Rich people with low self esteem and giant egos buying bigger and bigger plastic boats they use once a year so they can say they have a boat. This marginalises real water people by pushing them out of marinas, swing moorings etc. The infrastructure is all stressed by them and so registration and money collecting follows. Follow on from not using their giant boats enough is that the silly season sees them all crashing around the Bay creating giant wakes and cutting people off as they rush nowhere, oblivious to any sea rules. I mean are those Rivs designed specifically to push as much water out of the way as they can?
Paridise Bay (small intimate setting) and in comes a butt-ugly 140 foot speedboat. People are all rafted up in their little holliday water homes or sailing dinghies, laughing and swimming and bouncing around in the sun and some woman is three stories up on an exercycle in air conditioned remoteness.
Can't we get them to out big shiny [censored] each other with moon buggies instead because water has nothing to do with who they are.