let me say that I did and do know what B. C. stands for ! If I didn't I would have gone to my "backwards hillbilly" map and found out to have educated myself. Along the lines of education let me still say you have yet to educate me on how a engine block or train axle is more damaging to the environment then a mushroom type mooring ! ! That was the original issue. ! Can't help but wonder if you will be kind enough to offer me a last cigarette ! Quite frankly if this is how you react to someone who has a different opinion and disagrees with your perspective, I am also glad you are in Canada and I am not !!
OK, so this particular comment is over the top and too radical and perhaps I should have not included it, my apologies. I'll delete it. Sorry Pete, and perhaps you could accept by changing your post title.
Captain Kermie,
The Taunton River where our club is locate about two miles from Battleship Cove Fall River Mass., was declare a National Scenic River just last year. I like to paddle my kayak over to my favorite cove on the river with my dog, hide the kayak in the bushes and walk the shoreline in the summer and winter months. The trash that I see along that shoreline is unbelievable. I see old tires, bottles, cans, barrels, syringes, and everything imaginable. This is what really makes me sick, the stuff that is visible. I'm not implying that I'd be happy if it was on the river floor and I'm sure that it probably is, but I have no problem with the guys using old iron mill gears, train wheels, or concrete for their moorings. I do have a problem with that shoreline. I also have a problem with an idiot at the end my street who constantly throws litter out his truck window every single week when he drives by my house. He knows that I'm out there picking it up. The police won't bust him because littering is a $50 fine and it's--- "too cost prohibitive to investigate it." So my question is,--what's the answer to all of this?
Discouragement Trinkka, just try to discourage it. Bring the guys behavior to the attention of everyone in the neighborhood and attempt to embarrass him or make him feel guilty. Once the majority of citizens disapprove it may change his behavior, but then again he may be incurable, but at least you try. That is what I have attempted here but I went to far and said too much. Still, I will not advocate the use of junkyard metal for mooring and instead discourage it best I can even if I do end up stirring a few emotions.
Well Trinkka, many years back when all that trash was thrown there, the Taunton river banks may have been a lot higher and only the fish could see it. Many years later the lakes dry up and the river banks drop and now we all have to look at the unsightly trash. This can happen with moorings in interior lakes, when the lake levels drop we will all be faced with the stunning spectacular view of car engines and rail car wheels along the shoreline. The buried mushroom anchors may not look so bad but an engine block sure would! You have just provided some great ammunition for my point of view. Thank You for your input.Captain Kermie,
Unless you're a fish, you're never going to see it. A little humor there.
I've seen the Three Mile River when it suddenly became a small stream for weeks, back in the 1960s with 100s and maybe thousands of dead fish on the shore, and two years ago Sabbatia Lake was very low because they opened the dam at Morey's Bridge. Prior to that, the Mill River and some of the other rivers that flow into it, were so swollen that they thought the dams were going to give way and flood the city of Taunton. This made the news nationally. The Taunton River though, has never changed with the exception of the daily tides from Mount Hope and Narragansett Bays. The old foot paths where they used horses to tow the barges up the river, are still there, and some of the pilings and all of the old stone walls are still there. We have a rock in Dighton that has inscriptions from the 1500s by a Portuguese explorer who sailed up the river. No. This trash that I speak of is constantly being thrown down the hills in the form of tires and other debris, and some of it floated in from somewhere else.
Funny you never answered my arguments, not surprising, and now are showing your true feelings/prejudice..
The idea of changing the physical shape of an item by melting it down, in a dirty, polluting foundry, into another shape is clearly not a green idea. If the item could work as a mooring, and keep the boat in place, in its original shape or form, and be re-used or re-born as a mooring, part of "reduce, re-use, recycle" the green mantra, then it IS a green practice... Will it be a jury of our peers?
Kermie,
I wasnt expecting to see something like this here...Did you ever consider that some may think a Mac is a "blight on the seascape" and one craft that should be "removed" from tranquil anchorages, as you feel of others boats...?? Just asking?
Walt,I wasnt expecting to see something like this here...