Yanti again. My melita lives in the ivory tavern marina at tweed heads. Has done for 5years. I have had a new neighbour for 2months,he is not a bad bloke. But he has rammed my melita twice now on berthing. First time he knocked my BBQ off my Bimini s/s tube frame bending the tubing i managed to repair it although it is not how it used to be. Well that was last year. Today he needed 3 attempts to berth with his worst one bouncing off my melita like a fender bending a staunchon. Not like it was before. The marina manager is going to talk tomorrow at 8-00am. How angry should I be??
Seriously though, I'd be pretty annoyed. In my last Marina, got a phone call from manager saying the boat had been hit. Turns out luckily only minor damage to anchor roller and bow where anchor was dislodged and hit the boat. The guy paid for the repairs and was thrown out of the marina. He'd just bought the boat through broker at marina, no experience and was told by the manager that he would be given some free lessons. Decided to take it out before the lessons and hit 3 boats on the way out and 2 on the way in.
I had a green horn down where I was last year put his bow mid ships into Driftwood .I was so piss off I push his boat into his pier with my feet he left the marina next day luckily for my old boat shes a tough old thing . Maybe it was what I said
I help this skipper/dickhead berth. Chased him around the marina twice whilst he was sideways then watched him bash into my boat then placed two bow lines on his boat. Pissed off I walked away while he says. At least I missed your BBQ. I want to sink his boat
Simplest way to teach a new driver how to berth is to really emphasize that going really slow causes little damage if you hit something. Going slow is harder than going fast. Similar on a motorcycle. If you master going slow, youre halfway there. Id be spewing btw. Sounds like a numbskull.
looks like hes a steerer not a driver 
