Next message: Norm of Bandersnatch: "lv-ab: Manatee Zones and Cop Patrols"
Not Florida alone... just got back to Puerto Rico from Illinois and found a
letter
from the local DNR in my mail box - $100.00 fine for not displaying a
current
sticker on my boat. Never mind that the boat is in a private marina and the
sticker had been paid for, I just wasn't there to attach it. Government here
is
broke, schools had to close a month early last year because they couldn't
pay
the teachers, so collecting fines is what's called "revenue enhancement".
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm of Bandersnatch" <>
To: "A LiveAboardList" <>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: lv-ab: Key West CG letter
>
>
> I will scan the document when I can set up the gear, almost certainly
> sometime this week, then send it out to various people.
>
> I have spent many hours in this sort of political activism, especially the
> Melbourne affair, with very little result so I am not greatly enthusiastic
> about pouring more man hours into it, but I will do it "soon".
>
> BTW, two weeks ago a cop stopped me and wrote a Warning Citation about
> going too fast in my dinghy in a Manatee Zone, which he showed me in a
> manual stating it extends 300 feet from the shore. The "Manatee Zone"
> buoys are 960 feet from the shore measured by GPS. The dock I was 100
> feet
> off when stopped measured 698 feet from shore by steel tape. Those not in
> Florida may not be aware that the manatees go south in the winter. There
> are no manatees here now. The cop acknowledged that, but said he didn't
> want people to get into the habit of going fast in the manatee zone.
>
> It was a pleasant Saturday morning. They are only around on nice weekend
> or holiday days, never at night. A blessing. I should be more observant.
>
> And the BS goes on...
>
>
> Norm
> S/V Bandersnatch
> Lying 30 07.715N 081 38.394W
> Julington Creek Estuary FL
>
>
>
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