I was delivering a sailboat from La Paz to San Diego, circa 1990, they were building the first high-rise hotels in Cabo San Lucas at the time, and there was still an anchorage in the inner harbor (now long gone.) It was fairly crowded that day, all sailboats, enjoying the party atmosphere, when a 75' all stainless steel power boat named Dandiana comes lumbering in on one engine. Fuck!
Several of us hailed them but apparently they weren't monitoring VHF, all trying to tell them it wouldn't swing with us, there wasn't room. The captain was oblivious, dropped his hook and within 5 minutes multiple boats had to fend off the shiny monster.
We finally convinced the idiot he had to move, as we all shifted fenders to the side nearest him, but now neither engine would start. This left us to manage the chaos as best we could for an hour and a half, as the tide changed directions, until vessel assist made it over.
As if on cue a fresh breeze cropped up as they raised anchor, this boat had a mile of freeboard, his exit was anything but graceful. It did enough damage to one boat to disrupt their plans.
The engine problem: silicon in the fuel.
So Capt. Asshole, as he came to be called, was stuck in Cabo for 3 days, anchored in the outer harbor, while repairs were made. He managed to piss off the whole town just about, in that short time.
The minute his fuel system was cleaned out, he was late for the open sea. He throttled up before his anchor was all the way on board, snagged hawser lines of two separate moorings, each with a hapless boat attached. Those two boats converged as he tried to power through.
Channel 16 was exploding, as usual he wasn't listening. Someone in a dingy got in front of him (barely moving at this point) and he throttled back but apparently left it in gear. All the displaced and stretched ground tackle pulled him backwards into the lines as they were trying to settle, both props caught them and wrapped up tight!
He had already burned his bridges with the local repair and supply people, so they used their chance to even the score, forced him to pay the ones he had stiffed, plus some exorbitant charges for divers to get him untangled.
The night of lawlessness on channel 16 was pretty comical, he likely never heard any of it... properly it would've been humbling (but he'd have to give a damn for that to be the case.)
He left the harbor the next day, angry as hell, but with no one but himself to blame. And as we watched him rumble away, everyone in Cabo was hoping that awful boat would sink in deep water.
