It’s a well-accepted truth of offshore sailing that things get more dangerous the closer you get to land. An extension of that axiom in chartering could be that things get more entertaining the closer you get to an anchorage.
In many places we charter, mooring is the only option because anchoring isn’t allowed. This can lead to all kinds of behavior—I once watched two sailors in the British Virgin Islands scream and then physically throw down over a mooring, despite the islands’ online reservation
