Re: [Paddlewise] Epoxies and Polyurethanes

Oh, it's different in Vancouver False Creek. Here they were precisely
squatters, occupying what was a kind of "grey area" between the city (that
owned the area before and allowed unlimited anchorage), and high-rise
development monster owning now most of the shores around (but it was unclear
something in their water rights, so they couldn't just kick the boats out).
There were no moorings to be legally occupied or transferred as I
understand.  They lived on what used to be free waters, right in downtown
core, making many people envy, because very few can afford a waterfront
apartment there.  Keeping half-rotten boat as a place holder for a precious
mooring isn't, in my eyes, something morally different from keeping an old
unlivable shack on purchased, yet undeveloped plot of land, waiting for
price to go up (such people normally don't need this land for living, it's
merely money for them).

> Before you guys get too nostalgic over the derelicts in Newport Harbor it
should be pointed out that many of them are part of a con game for
transferring the mooring. The moorings are owned by the city and cannot be
sold. But the boat on the mooring can be sold and the mooring can then be
transfered to the new owner. Since the waiting list for moorings in this bay
is a joke, some people have been been on the list for thirty or forty years,
the price of the precious moorings, um, I mean the boats on them, is through
the roof!
>
> Scott
> So.Cal.
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