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From: Wally (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 09:31:40 EDT
What is overstay?
Is it a true problem? To whom?
One important enough to require legislation to ensure some rich persons
view is guaranteed diversity?
Think about that now.
I see some merit in your arguments, but, unlike dirt dwellings, someone buys waterfront for the view - and not necessarily one of a bunch of permanently anchored boats. I'm not by any means entirely in sympathy with them - I've gotten an anchoring ticket on Lake Sylvia in Lauderdale and that was wrong - but were I to anchor out in one location on a permanent basis, it wouldn't be in front of someone's home out of respect.
As for living in view - our view of our neighbours' homes in suburbia is generally of the front of their house, their garden, the trunk of their car....one rarely sees one's neighbours sitting in the front yard. On most of our boats, we live a lot of our lives in plain view and not everyone wants to see that.
In Georgian Bay and the North Channel, it is a given that boaters don't anchor too closely in front of someone's cottage nor interfere with their enjoyment of it - and we, the boaters, have been there far longer, but it's a live and let live attitude and it works.
Nonetheless, the changes are welcome as I will be cruising to Florida shortly.
Wally
s/v Gypsy Wind
> It's another thing to anchor
> semi-permanently in front of someone's house and live your life in
> front of their living room window. There has to be some balance.
Balance?
I live my dirt dwelling life perpetually planted in front of of some
peoples view. It's not questioned. Why should the view facing the water
be accorded legal power to ensure control of presentation that is not
accorded the view over the road towards the other houses, apartments,
high rises?
Dealing with floating junkpiles that cannot reasonably be called a boat,
is incapable of self control in motion, or which has not had a visit
from owner or person acting as agent for a period of some months....
that I am in favor of scrutinizing. But I'm not willing to guarantee
some waterfront owners "right" to a view in perpetual motion. No way,
whether a mega mansion or a cozy log cabin.
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