I bought a new to me boat today. It wasn't a Catalina 22, but it was a sailboat, an older Sunfish to be exact. I wasn't looking for one, but it showed up on my local Craigslist for $100, how could I pass that up? So after some brief correspondence with the seller, I hitched up my smallest boat trailer and headed off. The boat was located in a gated community that surrounds a very old private lake. I never cared too much for that snooty community, and I think you get scrutinized less in an ATF background check than you do trying to get through their gate. Anyway, even with the resident giving advance notice of my visit (including name, make of vehicle and license plate number), the guard still had a God complex as she looked down her nose at me. Once she approved me to enter and opened the gate, I made it about 50' before she came running out of her shack yelling at me. I thought maybe she forgot to give me a visitor pass or something. No, that wasn't it, she wanted to tell me that I couldn't take my tiny trailer in. I explained that I was there to buy a boat and she said "too bad". When I asked her how exactly I was supposed to get this boat without my trailer, she said the owner would have to bring it out to me. I told her that the owner didn't have a trailer and she said it didn't matter, no outside boats or trailers could be in their lake. I then told her that the boat wasn't even on the water and my trailer wouldn't be near it either. She said she didn't care as she demanded that I turn around and exit. She also said that if I wanted to bring my trailer in it would have to sit through a TWO WEEK QUARANTINE! So I abandoned my trailer in a nearby parking lot and got back in line to sit through the same scrutiny again while I pondered how I was gonna fit a 14' boat into my truck's extra short 5' bed. Have you ever heard of such a thing? I can understand quarantines for foreign vessels arriving in a US port, but a trailer from across town at an 80 year old dump of a lake nestled between a freeway and a landfill, come on!