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Sorry dude. No pain no gain.
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry N. Brown" <>
To: "Carl H. Martin" <>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: T&T: Anchoring in Florida
> I'll take the Nicholson part as long as I don't have to actually face any
> violence- just the babes.
>
> L
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl H. Martin" <>
> To: "Bob" <>; "Trawlers & Trawlering"
> <>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: T&T: Anchoring in Florida
>
>
>> On first reading I was thinking this meant that anyone with a land
>> address
>> would not be a live aboard and thus anchoring for them could not be
>> prohibited. How naive. What's worse is that it appears that if you are
>> a
>> "live-aboard" any municipality can prohibit you from anchoring for any
>> length
>> of time.
>>
>> Tomorrow is the fourth of July & we're all feeling patriotic. It's
>> strange to
>> think that some Americans aren't welcome in some parts of their own
>> country
>> just because they're on a boat.
>>
>> I'm thinking of making a movie. Two guys cruising the country togeather
>> in
>> their old wooden trawlers. One paints his red, white & blue. They just
>> want
>> to see America but are constantly harassed by wave runners, fisherman &
>> various local law enforcement agencies telling them to, "keep moving
>> along,
>> you're not welcome here". Along the way they pick up a crewman that
>> looks
>> alot like Jack Nicholson. No, make that Rip Torn. At night they sit
>> around &
>> drink rum & tell old sailing stories. In the end they're surrounded by a
>> group of waterfront condo owners in their big Sea Rays that live on lifts
>> &
>> have no bottom paint who ram them until there's almost no trace left.
>> Just
>> what's left of a wooden transom with the boat's name on it. "Freedom"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course I'd have to work in some sharks & babes to actually sell it.
>>
>> Carl
>> A section of a new bill (HB 7175) signed into law this week is titled
>> Vessel
>> Mooring Field Regulation. It says:
>>
>> Section 327.02(15), F.S., prohibits local governments from regulating
>> the
>> anchoring of non-live aboard vessels in the exercise of rights of
>> navigation.
>> Public rights on navigable waters are not restricted to navigation in the
>> strict sense, but include such incidental rights as are necessary to
>> render
>> the right of navigation as reasonably available. The incidental rights
>> include the right of a vessel to anchor so long as it does not
>> unreasonably
>> obstruct navigation. If it is a live-aboard vessel or floating
>> structure,
>> cities & counties can regulate their anghoring and mooring up to a flat
>> prohibition.
>>
>> Section 327.02 defines "live-aboard vessel" to mean:
>> (a) Any vessel used solely as a residence; or
>> (b) Any vessel represented as a place of business, a professional or
>> other
>> commercial enterprise, or a legal residence.
>> A commercial fishing boat is expressly excluded from the term
>> "live-aboard
>> vessel".
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