Caswell’s Casual Guide to Cruising Etiquette
In a calm anchorage at dusk, the peace is broken by a cellphone ringing in the cockpit of one of the boats. It rings, stops, then rings again because the caller can’t believe everyone doesn’t have their phone with them constantly. After a half hour of this nonsense, a dinghy departs a nearby yacht and a shadowy figure boards the offender. Quiet is restored.
Yachting etiquette was once handed down from experienced skippers to first-timers
