When we woke up Sunday mourning it was a clear day on the mooring in Wickford RI. As some of you may remember we tie-up fore and aft to pilings along a narrow channel with access only from one side (it get shallow very quickly). Bring the boat into the mooring is best described by my wife as parallel parking a house, but with practice we have gotten the hang of it. Leaving can be a challenge if the wind is from the North and blowing us towards the shallows (impossible to “push off”) but we manage. Anyway this transient 40’ Mainship Trawler from NY is a few spots down and appears to be attempting to depart (yes there was a north breeze, but very slight) with no success. With a single screw and no bow thruster many transients have problems so the yard comes over with the launch to give them a push. First one of the girls form the marina has to go aboard to help them with the lines. Then the Mainship starts up his TWIN engines, (he couldn’t make a simple turn with twin screws?). After a gentle nudge from the launch he hits reverse way to fast, almost runs into the public dock, hits forward too fast and almost hits another boat while the young ladies from the marina attempts to return to the launch and almost ends up in the drink. After they leave we learn they had even more problems getting into the mooring the day before, knocking down the overhead pulley system (guess what, they were going too fast) and getting their lines tangled in their prop. Maybe we do need some sort of licensing requirements. RREgge S/V Allie Kat