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The question is how do you know if it's abandoned or not?
With cars if it is parked somewhere it shouldn't be they
put a sticker on it and then if is hasn't moved in like 3
days they put another sticker on it. The following day
they tow it.
I can see many reasons a boat would not be moved or the
sticker taken off in 4 days. So how do you determine that
the boat is abandoned? If the boat has a motor then you
could say it has to have a current registration sticker.
In fact maybe they need to change the law to say that
even if you don't have a motor if the boat is to be left
in the water more than 24 hours you must have FL numbers
and a current registration sticker.
So that would be one way. The next would be that the boat
can't be a hazard to navagation. That is one of those
that can be trouble though because then the marine patrol
can say any boat that don't want there is a hazard to
navagation. So maybe say that a boat can't be anchored
within 500' of the chanel?
Now comes the really tough one. How do you deal with
boats that are in such a poor state of repair that they
have no business being on the water. We can't go just by
looks because I have seen boats that look great but would
sink if taken out and I have seen boats that look like
crap and are in fine mechanical shape. The last thing we
would want is people saying that a boat was in a poor
state of repair because someone chose to let their teak go
grey.
Just some things to think about.
Vern
s/v Nirvelli
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 16:34:34 -0400
"Norman Johnson" <> wrote:
>
> I believe that derelict boats are by definition
>abandoned. If they are
> abandoned, can they not be treated just as abandoned
>automobiles are?
>
>
>
> Norm
> S/V Bandersnatch
> Lying 30 07.7N 081 39.6W
> Julington Creek Estuary FL
>
>
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