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Sorry but it is not like cutting the lawn or trimming.
Sleeping at night in stifling environments, like in a boat with large engine mass that has run all day...AC is almost a necessity on many power boats...not something you can schedule from 9-5 every day.
Especially if you wind up cooking in an all electric galley after that days run.
Like I posted...takes both sides to be reasonable.
If poor and on a tiny sailboat with all the ports open and you cant sleep because of a tiny rumble and splash not too close by...well I feel for you.
The guy with the boat that needs AC and shows up late to an anchorage...well...make the call. Anchor further away or pay the price of your new title.
There is no etiquette as there are too many variables...all you can do is the best you can do under the circumstances....which isn't necessarily turning off your genset as some might have you believe.
I've been the guy on the little sailboat and the guy with the generator...it's not hard to figure out if you are a decent human being even if it means looking for anchorages where your genset wont be heard over the other ambient noises or the peacenick that can probably figure out where the Rodney Dangerfields of the world wont take their power cruisers.
If you're the only guy in the anchorage running your generator, then it is not the rest of us which are being inconsiderate. I'm sure there are many conditions which warrant it.
I'm sure in the Southeast US most people run them all night long. We don't do that in New England, mostly because we don't have too.