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Old 08-27-2014, 06:45 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Marin View Post
To my way of thinking, the presence of a sign is irrelevant. When the person bought the land and what they do with it is irrelevant. What one thinks of the person that owns the land is irrelvant. It doesn't matter who was "there first." There was no law preventing the person from buying and developing the land in the way that they did, so one's own opnion about what they did or didn't do is also irrlevalt.

The only thing that's relevant is the effect the passage of one's boat will have on the people or property around it. If the desired operation of the boat is potentially damaging or dangerous, then don't operate the boat that way.

If the land owner was smart and put up bulkheads and whatnot in anticipation of what the boat wakes might do, great. But if the land owner wasn't that smart, that doesn't give one the right to deliberately damage his stuff.

As I said earlier, it's called common sense and responsibility. It continues to amaze me how many so-called experienced boaters don't have either one of them.
Easy to say if you don't do the ditch with regularity.

The ditch is like a superhighway for boats...

While responsibility and courtesy shouldn't be abandoned...there are laws keeping pedestrians, bikers, horses and slow pokes off of interstates that have minimum speeds and motorized mandatory.

Even the states have recognized the need to have reason rule on the ICW and prevent people from putting up those signs that aren't approved...THE STATES recognize the selfishness of people to come along and alter the lifestyle of tens of thousands and equally as many commercial operations.

While limiting takeoff profiles in certain airspace is important...there are places where that's just impractical and people moving into places under those departures have to recognize they are doing so consciously. Should we close every airport because of one noise complaint around them?

No and to make a several thousand mile boat highway no-wake the whole distance is just as bad...especially when the government spends a fortune on keeping parts of it open just for commercial traffic...just crazy....
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