I don't see any mileage in hating BoatyBall, Cooper Is (and to some extent Great Harbour) are the only real problem areas and as Mr BB above says, 109 boaters were trying to reserve 15 balls, so even if you had 50 FCFS balls it wouldn't solve the problem. there's a plethora of different types of customers in the area & we're on the 'sailing side', ie we like to have a sail during the day so the option to turn up to a reserved ball at 5pm is a great plus for us, to get into a scrum to arrive before midday to get a ball anywhere has zero appeal to us, it's a sailing holiday after all.
we haven't been in the highest season but dread to imagine what it might be like, Moorings / Sunsail have 250+ boats out at the same time, plus all the other companies, plus all the privateers, how on earth does everybody manage??
now that scenario I definitely would hate.
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