We headed out of Everett to Poulsbo. We anchored there only to have a guy come flying past us in his dingy – clearly intentionally rocking us in his wake. We suspect what set him off was that he thought we anchored too close to him. Dave measured and it was 360 feet – so we were plenty far away, but crazy people are crazy. On his way back from town he buzzed us again. Dave yelled for him to knock it off. Guy then came back and started screaming at us. Dave went and grabbed the can of bear spray to ensure the guy didn’t try to board us. At which point crazy dude started screaming that Dave was “brandishing a weapon which is a felony”. Um… no. Protecting yourself with a non-lethal can of bear spray is rational and sensible when crazy dude with a pit bull in his dingy is screaming at you. Dude went on about “do you know who I am? Do you know what I do for a living?” As though if we knew – then we’d be scared of what he was going to do to us. This went on for about 5 minutes before crazy dude went back to his boat. Dave and I decided to depart Poulsbo as we couldn’t see continuing to stay at anchor another night with crazy dude around. We had a CVS prescription to pick up (one of the ones stolen in the car break in a week ago), and some Amazon deliveries at a locker to pick up – but decided we would just place another order somewhere else and let Amazon snag them back from the So we pulled up anchor, turned off the AIS so he couldn’t locate us, and headed over to Ostrich Bay – one of our favorite quiet spots. After getting there and re-anchoring, I called 911 to report crazy guy. A police officer called me back within a few minutes. He was known to them. (Shocking!) He said that he had not filed a complaint about our “felony weapon”, and that he expected the guy not to file any such report because he was anti-government. (Another surprise!) The police officer said they were going to be on the water in Poulsbo the next day and planned to go pay him a visit.
I sent the photo and story to my brother in case anything happens to us…