Watercraft bill alert

[Coastal Woodie]

So can they write me a ticket for planning off to close to my own dock?

[Chuck the Duck Slayer]

It's too subjective and in my opinion difficult, if not impossible to enforce unless the state wants to pay for buoys to be placed 100 yards from every dock and require anchored boats to place strobe buoys 100 yards from themselves before they anchor.

Don't go giving them any ideas you big dummy.

[shoooooots]

Ducktape, my feeling is that this is just another step towards no wake zones everywhere and I am opposed to it.

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exactly. charleston harbor anchorage coming in under the connector & 17 used to be allowed to run through there on the left side if you could remain 50' away from moored vessels, now it's 100% no wake, even if you're in a 15' john boat incapable of throwing a wake 1/2 the size of the average windswell in the area.

[willyworm]

Do y'all want to fight the legislation?

Just to clear the air, is that what you plan to do?

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[Duck Tape]

Just to clear the air, is that what you plan to do?

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Not by myself.

[willyworm]

Well, can we help? Cause this is just silliness. And the fact that one fella making sure Moultrie wasn't included to suit his personal agenda chaps my ass.

Reminds me of that whole healthcare thing, where it's good enough for the masses but not good enough for Congress.

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[ceddy]

I don't agree with 100 ft and don't agree with the Moultrie exception. All or none. But 100 ft on most waterways is too much. Stupid can anchor in the middle of the waterway and make me slow down, no.

[Bad Habit]

exactly. charleston harbor anchorage coming in under the connector & 17 used to be allowed to run through there on the left side if you could remain 50' away from moored vessels, now it's 100% no wake, even if you're in a 15' john boat incapable of throwing a wake 1/2 the size of the average windswell in the area.

that is an illegal no wake zone posted by the city of Charleston- who does not have the authority to make no wake zones- fight it in court and it's thrown out every time- if it doesn't have a DNR emblem or US coast guard emblem- fuck em

[Jozie & Me]

fight any legislation that is not uniformly implemented. If it isnt applied to moultrie then fuck them.

As stated above, its stupid.

Plus its just another example of people not wanting other folks to use the resources they think they own. Buy a house at the lake and suddenly you own all of the water that you can see from your dock. You are not Christopher Columbus that can claim it for yourself. IF you dont like boat wake, move to the other end of a dirt road in the pines.

50' is more than enough

Plus I would rather most most boats come by planed off running wide open than riding bow high pushing a 4 ft wake.

[Goin Coastal]

If you stroll by, stretched out, you leave almost no wake
Its those idiot that think they are at idle speed, plowing their crops, that cause all the issues.

[Goin Coastal]

And technically by saying propped watercraft, you are excluding personal watercraft as they have an impeller not prop.

[Bad Habit]

And technically by saying propped watercraft, you are excluding personal watercraft as they have an impeller not prop.

that was intentional

[quack head 11]

What about a jet ski paralleling a moving vessel and jumping the wake. Happens daily on greenwood

[ShotgunDave]

. And the fact that one fella making sure Moultrie wasn't included to suit his personal agenda chaps my ass.

Reminds me of that whole healthcare thing, where it's good enough for the masses but not good enough for Congress.

x100 This is the type of shit that so many people are tired of. People in politics make legislation to fit their personal agenda and its horse shit.

[Goin Coastal]

Well, can we help? Cause this is just silliness. And the fact that one fella making sure Moultrie wasn't included to suit his personal agenda chaps my ass.

Reminds me of that whole healthcare thing, where it's good enough for the masses but not good enough for Congress.

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Thing I cant figure is how it benifits him. Its staying at 50 feet on Moultrie. If its the Senator Im thinking, he lives across the road from me on the water and has a dock. You would think he would want the boat further out from his own property. Not sure what gives.

[willyworm]

Thing I cant figure is how it benifits him. Its staying at 50 feet on Moultrie. If its the Senator Im thinking, he lives across the road from me on the water and has a dock. You would think he would want the boat further out from his own property. Not sure what gives.

Think about it. He wants to be able to drive his boat close to someone else's pier and not have to deal with the man.

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[scarecrow]

I hope either you were so tired, or so drunk at 2:12 in the morning that you had no idea what you were saying because this is got to be the stupidest thing I have read on here in a while. Did you find humor in this?

The first part was a genuine question. I’m sorry you can’t read the sarcasm. This accident seems to be caused by one driver not seeing the other. No law regulating distance could prevent that. The law could set a distance of a mile between two boats, but that does not prevent one from running over someone they do not see.

[Rooster1554]

Fight it. If it's that important, increase enforcement of the current law.

[Catdaddy]

Do y'all want to fight the legislation?

Yes.


And while your at it could someone tell those folks in Airport slough that roping off areas to keep boats out is not permitted. Floating cables for 200 yards of shoreline.

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[Catdaddy]

It's too subjective and in my opinion difficult, if not impossible to enforce unless the state wants to pay for buoys to be placed 100 yards from every dock and require anchored boats to place strobe buoys 100 yards from themselves before they anchor.

This

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