This looks like it belongs on a Home Depot lot, not on the water!

Just when you thought you'd be having a nice quiet evening, things change big time. We were sitting at anchor in a nice spot and decided to stay for another night when a couple of Home Depot sheds came around the corner. These things were just like the pre-fab sheds that are sold at Home Depot or Lowes only these were floating and had outboard motors. Remember I talked about anchoring etiquette? Well, these folks weren't cruisers. They were locals and had no idea about anything, except gettin' set up for the Holiday Weekend.

They circled around and ended up between us and the shore. They stopped where we would end up when the tide changed. We yelled at them (no radio action with them) to tell them that our boat would swing to that spot when the tide changed. It made no difference with them. They proceeded to "tie up" right there!

This was unbelievable! Idiot would be a level up for these people. They yelled back that they've been on this river for "forty @#$%ing years". I'm sure they had since they couldn't have gotten anywhere else. Jethro and Uncle Jed proceeded to drop a VERY small anchor and then tie the other end of each shed to a tree. They then tied the sheds together. It's easy to see how inbreeding occurs down here. How do you have a "discussion" about anchoring with someone that is tied off to a tree? When I told them that we would swing into them at the tide change, one of them said, "pull 'yer line tighter". We only had out 75' of chain in 18' of water. So I could tell that discussing such things as anchor scope, catenary, and swing radius would be a foreign language to these crackers. We would be too "up close and personal" with the locals in the middle of the night.

This was the other one


This was the end result of the boys tying up "butt to butt", becoming but buddies



We had no choice other than pull up our anchor and move. Obviously, when we pulled up our anchor Kim was very close to them and a verbal "exchange" took place. I was real glad we moved when we did. Dealing with them at 3:00 AM would not have been pleasant. In the end, we were chased out by a couple of Home Depot sheds!

So we moved to a nice spot a few miles away. Just another day on the ICW.

Our new neighborhood


Better locals


And more...


You know, when we were leaving, I'm sure I heard dueling banjos.