GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

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Brunswick Landing: Obviously if you want to haul out it sounds like you need
to shrinkwrap. The original request sounded like it was just for a slip for a
month which is what was relayed in which case $11/ft with no shrinkwrap is
still correct.
 
Venice Water Nazi: Unfortuantely, the paragraph below has some flawed logic.
In many states, the Coast Guard Registration is all that is required, so the
name and hailing port are the equivilent of a license plate. So what he is
doing is the equivelent of pulling over a car with a michigan license
plate because they don't have a florida license plate. From my understanding,
he is (was?) pulling over boats for no reason and then going thru them until
he found something. I would think the "protection from unreasonable search and
seziure" should protect us from these types of shake downs, but for some
reason boaters accept it. The only reason I can think is there are enough laws
on the books (some conflicting with each other), that if you annoy the officer
they can always find some reason to hand out a ticket, so the best course is
to keep quite and don't annoy the officer. Clearly this officer is (was?) not
using good judgement in choosing which and
 how to enforce the laws. As such he should be pulled up short. I don't
believe for a minute that there was nothing the polititians could do about it.
I suspect they were enjoying the large fines he was handing out to
non-constituants. I worked in government long enough to know that problem
people may not get fired, but they can be moved somewhere where they are
harmless.
 
It is amusing that we criticize this officer for enforcing the regulation of
boats, but would be outraged if the same officer turned a blind eye towards
people driving around in cars with no
license plates...

Mike & Tammy
Valhalla II
Currently:Port Royal, SC