The Role Of Subculture In Len's Cove

As the snow begins to melt and the world receives back it’s glorious colours, people embrace that spring is upon us. They bring out the lawn furniture, buy new flowers, turn down the thermostat and embrace the warmth that they have been deprived of for the last six months. Most people would take the change in weather as a sign of relaxation, knowing that summer is coming and that their lives are going to get a little less stressful. But for the people of Portland Ontario when the world changes colour, their work has just begun, because that is when Len’s Cove Marina opens as well as the rest of the town. The Marina owns one out of the two restaurants and the biggest property in the town, some may even go as far to say that the marina runs the
(Flynn, 2016) There are the boaters whose class is determined by docks status. This status is determined by money, there are the old dock and gas dock which usually holds the cheaper boats and lower income people even occasionally people’s boats from the town of Portland. This subculture is the most similar to the main subculture, as a result of these population is most similar to the town’s people. Although, this is not the wealthiest subculture it is still higher than most towns people due to the fact that they can own motor crafts; this is also the subculture in which I consider myself to be a part of. We then move on to the finger docks and galley docks which hold the middle-class boats and boat owners. This subculture follows the values of the locals and employees of the Marina and try to be as socialized with their culture as possible. This group of individuals try and befriend the staff and other boaters and make the most of the society around them. We then shift over to the Big docks which are where the largest boats dock, with their upper-class owner’s vacation. These boaters that choose to live by their own society and their own beliefs and values. They are what a counter culture to the rest of us, not as socialized with the people of the marina, because they relax and ignore as everyone does the work around them. The cottager owners are held at by status based on numbers and price of boats. They also are the socialized in the same subcultures; old and gas dock boaters, they come and go throughout the summer and grow friendships as much as the can with the staff of the marina. When it comes to the higher end boat owner’s, they are typically quiet and stick to themselves, just coming to the marina for the soul purpose of getting gas. They usually only every come into real contact when going