| Title: | SAILING |
| Notice: | Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference |
| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
| Total number of notes: | 20724 |
The following article was written In Forbes, March, 1989:
"LarchmontYacht Club (heard the) irate voices of over 50 area yachtsmen
gathered there one recent evening, furious over a new mooring
regulation enacted by the village of Lloyd Harbor, N.Y., nearby on
Long Island Sound. The regulation requires nonresident sailors
to pay the town a $100 fee to drop anchor in local waters for the
night. The charge for residents: only $15.00. The yachtsmen's
unhappiness is understandable, for such laws are now becoming common
in coastal communities around the country........But instead of
enacting laws that treat everyone fairly, many towns and villages
are adopting restrictions that give favorable treatment to their
own residents. (It goes on to state that while Federal laws govern
use of the waterways, task of maintaining facilites and anchorages
has more and more fallen to municipalities.) "These, in turn, have
begun to assert a questionable legal domain over the areas involved."
"What results from this is mean-spirited conflict regarding where
private shore-front property actually becomes public waterways and
thus available to navigation to anyone."
If this continues, it appears that cruising in long Island Sound
will become too expensive for anyone!!
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1177.1 | this has to be a joke | LDP::PARKER | Thu Apr 13 1989 13:40 | 9 | |
Seening as how it is not the 1st of April and this note is not from
Alan my response is......$100 to anchor, not very likely! The town
must wash the hook off after you use it and flake the rode down
and come and get you in the launch and take you to town in the Rolls
and charge $200 for a mooring.
Is this for real?
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| 1177.2 | No Joke, apparently | PBA::SCHLEGEL | Thu Apr 13 1989 13:56 | 8 | |
Re: .1
According to page 74 of the March 6th issue of Forbes, it is!
What hit home with me, is the fact that my son just bought a 34
ft'r he is trying to get into Port Jeff. Where will he be able to
cruise to?
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| 1177.3 | some hope | MSCSSE::BERENS | Alan Berens | Thu Apr 13 1989 14:04 | 9 |
Along the same lines, various Florida towns have been passing ordinances limiting how long one may anchor and/or prohibiting liveaboards. So far, these ordinances have not withstood legal challanges. But, the legal process is slow and expensive. In the New York area, I'd bet that there are many sailor/lawyers who will be delighted to file suit over such ordinances just for the fun of it. I wonder how much the town has allocated for extra legal fees. | |||||
| 1177.4 | he could always... | LDP::PARKER | Thu Apr 13 1989 16:41 | 4 | |
He could always drop the hook behind the breakwater in New Haven,
it's to far for anyone to come from shore to collect and maybe CT.
hasn't caught the $$$bug yet.
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| 1177.5 | "Safe Harbor"??? | CDR::SPENCER | John Spencer | Thu Apr 13 1989 21:01 | 21 |
Indirectly related: Though I forget where it was first heard, I've understood that one can seek shelter *anywhere* -- legally -- when in trouble (potential danger) underway by declaring "Safe Harbor". It was a while ago, but a scruffy bunch of Outward Bounders in a rugged and not exactly Bristol open pulling boat sailed into the Ocean Reef Club's harbor on Key Largo, FL before a 35-kt breeze one night. (The Florida Marine Patrol many times mistook us for Haitian refugees, till they began to recognize our distinctive vessels!) We were met by a guard, who called his cohorts over to kick us out. I declared "Safe Harbor", and they backed right off (instead requesting that we not walk into the clubhouse, and that we leave in the morning.) Whether it's law, or was just bluff, it worked in a place where they take their exclusivity seriously. Anyone know if this really is a law? Maybe it'd get you into one of those hotsy-totsy LI harbors overnight in a gale without having to pay the town troll. ;-) J. | |||||