Stolen Charter Date?

[Johnny Rod]

I don't know how to feel about this and would like some input.

Every year on Veterans Day my crew and I do a charter trip. For the past two years we have used a non sponsor boat up in Rhode Island for our Veterans Day trip. This year we had an extra spot so we decided to ask a fellow that we had met on a couple of open boat trips and that we exchanged contact info with(7th Guy). We had a banner day on the Blackfish grounds. We all decided that we should use this boat again for Veterans Day 2015. This was 7th Guys first time on this boat. We went out of our way to include 7th Guy in next years trip and he told us he would love to join us. We told the Captain we wanted the date next year and he said he starts taking reservations in January. We told the Captain he would hear from us January 1st and left it at that.

Today my buddy gets a text from 7th Guy saying he has chartered this boat for Veterans day 2015 and that there are 3 spots available, leaving the other members of our crew out in the cold and on the dock.

I know we don't own the boat or the date or anything,(and the Captain is in no way at fault) but this somehow feels like a major breach of etiquette. I have to admit that I am extremely aggravated by this.

Am I out of line? All opinions are welcome.