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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2006 - 09:32:09 EDT
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:05:17 -0400, you wrote:
>The question is how do you know if it's abandoned or not?
First principle: If someone is living aboard, the boat is not
abandoned.
> 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.
Except that maybe the person is not a Florida resident but a
transient. It takes more than 24 hours to transit through Florida,
and even sometimes through Melbourne.
Not everyone in the Florida area has a Florida boat - not every boat
in Florida is even a US boat. Some people will bring their boat down
to Florida, and then will visit from up north periodically. And
people who have bought a boat or brought it to a Florida facility
(boatyard) to be repaired aren't required to be registered in Florida.
I think you could say that if the boat was anchored or moored in the
same spot for 6 months, that they could be required to have a Florida
registration sticker or would be considered abandoned.
You might be able to say that if someone was going to anchor or moor
in the same general area, and were going to leave the boat there
(unoccupied) for more than a month, that they would have to register
their intent with some authority (maybe for a small fee). And that no
boat being lived aboard or that was registered would be able to be
considered an abandoned boat.
You might also say that any boat (whether being lived aboard or not)
which was anchored or moored would have to be moved under its own
power at least once every six months, or it would be considered
abandoned.
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