Beauties lying around docked boat get complaints (10)
I believe the answer is:
bellyaches
'complaints' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'beauties lying around docked boat' is the wordplay.
'beauties' becomes 'belles' (I've seen this before).
'lying around' is an insertion indicator.
'docked boat' becomes 'yach' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'belles' enclosing 'yach' is 'BELLYACHES'.
'get' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for bellyaches that I've seen is " Complains".)