Hi,
New member and new boat owner here, and glad to be aboard. I tried searching for this topic, but couldn't find anything, so please forgive me if it's been covered before.
We bought our first boat this year...a Sundeck 220, and we're loving it so far. We have it moored about 200 feet off of our beach, which is a beach that the whole neighborhood has access to. On a few occasions, we've seen some of the neighborhood teens (none of whom we know) climbing onto the back deck of the boat and sitting there, sunning themselves, diving off of, etc...basically using it as their personal dock. On a couple of occasions, they've even put the ladder down to facilitate getting onto the boat. We keep the covers on all the time, so they haven't gone into the boat...yet. We'll yell at them to get off, and to date, they've always complied, and are usually apologetic.
Any suggestions on trying to prevent this from continually happening? Thanks for any help you can give!
Frank
New member and new boat owner here, and glad to be aboard. I tried searching for this topic, but couldn't find anything, so please forgive me if it's been covered before.
We bought our first boat this year...a Sundeck 220, and we're loving it so far. We have it moored about 200 feet off of our beach, which is a beach that the whole neighborhood has access to. On a few occasions, we've seen some of the neighborhood teens (none of whom we know) climbing onto the back deck of the boat and sitting there, sunning themselves, diving off of, etc...basically using it as their personal dock. On a couple of occasions, they've even put the ladder down to facilitate getting onto the boat. We keep the covers on all the time, so they haven't gone into the boat...yet. We'll yell at them to get off, and to date, they've always complied, and are usually apologetic.
Any suggestions on trying to prevent this from continually happening? Thanks for any help you can give!
Frank