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From: Wally (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 16:13:28 EDT
Rob - it's fortunate that few people know of this - I know it's news to me although I did know about the public use setback from the highwater mark. Only in Kanada, eh?
Wally
s/v Gypsy Wind
p.s. what you doin' in alberta?
Rob Zanussi <> wrote: It's a day or two late, but that's because I misaddressed it.
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Some of you may not be aware of this, but in Canada, a dock which extends
out over the water is deemed to be public property and anyone can use it. I
am not sure if this applies to landlocked lakes or just those that the
Canada Shipping Act would cover.
For example. I have a lot on an island on Georgian Bay and there is no road
access, hence I need a boat and a dock. Anyone can come along and use my
dock to fish from, have a picnic on, use it as a base for water skiing etc
and there is nothing I can do about it. The same applies to part of the
shoreline, anyone can cross the front of my property within a certain
distance of the water.
And Wally, if you wanted to moor right inside the area that I have bouyed
off for the kids to swim in, there isn't a thing I can do about it. Well,
not legally, but it is amazing what a nite dive with a scuba tank can do.
(Kidding)
Rob
Now in land locked Alberta
At 09:31 AM 10/9/2006 -0400, you wrote:
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.
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have millions of old ladies
running around with tattoos and pierced navels?
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