@Weezol
This guy bought our old boat.
Initially he asked to pay it off in instalments over two years. Nope.
A month later he came back with the money. $10,000. The boat was out of the water for the winter at the local boat yard. He did not a stitch of work on it over the winter didn't come out to see it once.
Come May he wants to launch it. Comes to the boatyard and goes ballistic because the cover has blown off a bit and snow has got in. Yells at dh. DH points out he sold the boat and boat ownership entails some care over the winter, especially with a wooden boat.
I've googled him at this point and found out he's actually been charged with animal cruelty twice for leaving over 20 horses to die without food and water. So he's an asshole.
He gets the boat launched (against dh and boatyards advice is it's blowing half a gale and monsooning.)
He then immediately sails off to a nearby town. Doesn't give the boat time to swell. Doesn't do the days of maintenance that anybody should do. Several people tell him the engine needs checking/oil change etc and that also it's far too windy and out of the wrong direction. For an experienced sailer it would be hard, this guy had never sailed a boat in his life.
He took off with no charts, even a phone! He hits a ledge 5 minutes out of the boat yard. Rings dh (on his girlfriend's phone.) Screams at dh.
DH goes out to help. Guy screams at him that he's going to sue us. DH leaves.
Over the next few hours the girlfriend keeps timing ds and the local boatyard/water taxi in an increasing state of distress. The boat is sinking, she's sea sick and terrified. Every time someone goes out the guy flips at them and her.
After about 6 hours (and the boat is really taking on water fast at this point) I tell dh and the other guys that we need to get her off so we call the coastguard. They come out in a HUGE boat and a smaller boat. About 20 of them!
They get her off the boat and she leaves the island in her car.
They stay with the guy and the boat (he knows if he leaves it's likely to be claimed by someone else as salvage) until the tide is ok for a rescue. He's then escorted off the island by the coastguard, they drive him to the ferry. This is largely because it's been found out that the day before he overtook a school bus with its lights on a flag out (a serious offence here, there were kids crossing he nearly hit.)
The island police informed the state troopers and they were waiting for him to come off the boat on the mainland.
So then he comes back in a few days, apparently screaming around the boat yard threatening to beat up dh. DH (
) goes to the boatyard. In all fairness, I was terrified he'd come to our house. All of the burly workmen are there so he doesn't say shit.
Next day the girlfriend rings dh crying. Turns out SHE bought the boat with her kid's college fund but both names were on the contract. He's dumped her. For being 'too fat.' (Cunt.)
She asks DH to change the contract to her name. He couldn't. She's asks him to buy it from her. No bloody way.
Next week their both back at the boatyard (there was a big bill to pay and I'm sure he got back with her purely to get that paid.)
He's screaming at her, losing it, threatening her. People intervene and she leaves in her car.
Guy sails off. In thick fog. Still no charts, no phone and no sailing knowledge.
And that's the last anyone has seen of the boat!! 