Bad neighbor

Follow Ghost's advice. Send a sweet-as-can-be thank you letter (snail mail) itemizing the points you "understand from our conversation of [date] that you agreed would be fixed." That's a polite but firm way to make your point. And mail it with "confirmation of mailing" (costs maybe a buck, if USPO still offers that service); it confirms that you mailed the letter (duh) but is not as formal or threatening as a certified letter with return receipt requested.

(And if you happen to know Larry Vincent at Ship Shape Marine near Smyrna, give him my regards.)

V/R
 
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Originally posted by Ghost

NC, the beauty is in doing no harm. It only causes a person to inspect things that should get inspected anyway. It's really a great way to help out a fellow boater. It adds motivation, and fights off that nasty monster that is complacency.

Can I help it if it causes an overly focused individual to slip into a fit of paranoid rage? Those qualities would have to already be present to be elicited, I could hardly feel responsibility.

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I can imagine the full effect of it because I am one of those guys that needs to be calmed down and reassured when stray hardware is found in the bilge in the morning, and is prone to losing his pleasant and agreeable demeanor when the engine room has pooled oil and coolant in the usual spots, and the flashlight isn't hanging where it should be, and everything isn't stowed properly, and main and aux isn't 100% good to go without explanation and sufficient contingency.

Throw hardware in the bilge of one of my boats at work, you might cause me to spontaneously combust. At the minimum, you'd make my Engineer wish I would.
 
*Sailboaters, though, would probably eventually give up, finding a split pin on the deck...
 
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Originally posted by GoVols

WASJR,
I'm on Percy Priest. TWRA polices the lake, but I've seen Corps boats there as well enforcing rules and such. In fact, the Corps has regular inspections of the marinas well. I've never seen anything dealing with TVA, except the powerlines leaving the damn.

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TWRA enforces boating laws on the lakes, but the Corp controls shoreline and marinas on the Cumberland River system . Marina leases are through the Corp, so you would have some leverage there.
 
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