Hey Sweet 'bella & All, Love Boot Key Harbor and it has been my hailing port and hub for over six years. Of course most of you know that.
The City of Marathon, especially with level-headed people like its Harbormaster Richard Tanner, has come up with a fine way to deal with unattended as well as, but different than abandoned vessels. If you are leaving your boat unattended for more than "Xx" number of days you notify the Harbormaster you will be gone and inform him of who in the Harbor is caring for your boat in your absence. Name, phone number, you know... and it works. I'ts the way we all have been doing things for years and no doubt many for decades. Who wouldn't do it? I want someone to look to see if my waterline is visible! Ha. Those who don't care to put someone in charge of their boat or notify others they will be gone (no numbers, no name, no hello, goodbye, nada) have, in essence, abandoned their boats and deserve whatever happens. No one will even notice until the abandoned boat saws through its lines and is free willy all over the Harbor. Everyone in the Harbor knows which boats are truly derelict and a danger. Since the winds will blow and some don't care, thus causing mayhem for those of us in full compliance with Harbor rules and regs... I'll be standing there applauding when the abandoned boat is towed, crushed, and put in the dumpster and taken away. Seen it happen many times. The Harbor is clean and lovely and the new mooring field is wonderfully laid out. The few derelict vessels are west of the drawbridge. They are the ones that look well, derelict. This isn't a difficult situation by any means. But I do applaud those who are urging all to stand up and be counted for what is fair and what will work in Boot Key Harbor and elsewhere. BTW, my dear pal Capt Marti Brown's website is idiyachts.com; the Boot Key Harbor dot com website belongs to another pal of mine, Gregory Absten. Big Hugs, Charmaine Aboard s/v September Sea "Life's a Gift... Unwrap It!" - C~ www.SeptemberSea.com -------Original Message------- ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:07:09 -0400 From: "'bella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Liveaboard] Consequences.. To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" HIghlights and underlines are mine.... Folks,this is the problem that we cruisiers get stuck with dealing with...someone comes in, and anchors thier boat..takes off and goes elsewhere the boat not tended to in thier absense...and they some wonder why they get hassled upon return or cities wish to regulate this issue.. you need to speak out not only to marathon.. but to others you see doing this.. remind them that leaving thier boat creates problems for the rest of us... water cops stop by a boat, no one there. for days, or weeks... no wonder that the owner gets told to leave when finally found... captain marti's website is www.bootkeyharbor.com great wealth of information claiborne young's www.cruisersnet.net II. Possible Trouble Brewing In Marathon, FL My "Cruising the Florida Keys" co-author, Morgan Stinemetz, and yours truly, have been lavish in our praise of Marathon, Florida in regards to their highly successful effort to clean up Boot Key Harbor. Where once there were dozens of sunken and semi-sunken vessels, sitting in water that was so polluted you would have to have been crazy to wet your big toe, now cruisers will find a well founded mooring field with excellent shoreside support facilities at Marathon City Marina. However, like many other coastal communities, *Marathon is having a problem with the very, very small percentage of cruisers who leave their vessels unoccupied on a mooring or at anchor for weeks or even months at a time. * Unfortunately, the city of Marathon has approached this problem with a set of DRAFT regulations concerning "abandoned" vessels. The proposed language under consideration can only be described as "ham fisted." One possible, if ludicrous, interpretation of the draft language is that anyone leaving their boat at all will be in violation. Clearly, this is NOT what the powers that be in Marathon have in mind, but while these proposed statutes are still in the draft - public comment stage, THE CRUISING COMMUNITY NEEDS TO MAKE ITS VOICE HEARD! We strongly urge ANY cruiser who has even a remote interest in visiting the Florida Key's fascinating waters, to go without delay to our new, regional sub-category page, "Marathon and Boot Key Harbor" at: http://www.cruisersnet.net/index php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=199&Itemid=468 Read my own, and Captain Marti's comments carefully, and please attend any subsequent public comment or Marathon City Council meetings at which these new regulations are the subject of discussion. We'll do our best to keep you informed as this process goes forward! -- It's not about the boat it's sails or rigging. It's about the freedom. http://www.slideshare.net/jacko91/these-are-my-credentials/ http://fisherhouse.org/ http://www.specialops.org/ "We are the gaurdians of a great faith. When we believe that freedom offers the best chance of peace and prosperity for all, and our desire for peace cannot be seperated from our believe in liberty." Harry J. Truman Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.liveaboardnow org/pipermail/liveaboard/attachments/20081014/b1799fd2/attachment.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard End of Liveaboard Digest, Vol 14, Issue 54 ******************************************
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