You want to talk about absurd. After 911 the federal gov had funds available to protect our waterways. Every town ( each town has 1/2 mi to 2 mi of riverfront w/ different town on each side of the river) now has a police boat to protect us and allow their crew to work on their tan. The only thing to do is to stop boats and harass the operators. One member of my marina went a 1/4 mi from his slip and was stopped and boarded within a 1/4 mi of the bridge. He went under the bridge and was boarded by the next town. Both police boats were in easy site of each other. He looked down the river and saw several more patrol boats and decided to go back.
If you go past the nuclear power plant they stop you in both directions even if only 10 min apart. Even the coast guard gets in the act. They give out a paper that says you've been checked out and if you show it to another CG boarding party they will usually honor the safety check part. The CG guys are nice and very respectful. Can't say that for the locals. Not so with the police. One town has a boat on the river, yet their town is no where near the river. Must have to do with free money. The only good thing is the cops only work 8ish to 5 and only if it's nice out. You never see them in the rain. The coast guard does night boardings in blacked out avons with a locked and loaded crew, but they aren't around much as their budgets have been trimmed and they board every ship coming into the NY port so it keeps them busy. I spend a lot more time at the dock. Thanks Rich Zimmerman --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Kerry Lebel <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kerry Lebel <[email protected]> Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re: No Discharge Zones in Puget Sound To: [email protected] Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 4:19 PM That is completely absurd. Bunch a tree hugging, granola eating hippy lawmakers down there. :-) Kerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin martin Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re: No Discharge Zones in Puget Sound San Diego county and bay No discharge at all. A friend got a ticket for dumpting the last 1/3 of a beer in the water. You can't wash your boat, at least not if soap or dirty water runs off of it into the slip. Plants on the dock must have water catchers . If you are caught discharging you will get fined by the Coast Guard and then subject to fines by the County as well. Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/UnifliteWorld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
