T&T: Anchoring in Florida

[Carl H. Martin]

Sorry dude.  No pain no gain.

Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry N. Brown" <cigano55@hotmail.com>
To: "Carl H. Martin" <chmartin@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: T&T: Anchoring in Florida


> I'll take the Nicholson part as long as I don't have to actually face any 
> violence- just the babes.
>
> L
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl H. Martin" <chmartin@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "Bob" <bob@bobgritter.com>; "Trawlers & Trawlering" 
> <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: T&T: Anchoring in Florida
>
>
>> On first reading I was thinking this meant that anyone with a land 
>> address
>> would not be a live aboard and thus anchoring for them could not be
>> prohibited.  How naive.  What's worse is that it appears that if you are 
>> a
>> "live-aboard" any municipality can prohibit you from anchoring for any 
>> length
>> of time.
>>
>> Tomorrow is the fourth of July & we're all feeling patriotic.  It's 
>> strange to
>> think that some Americans aren't welcome in some parts of their own 
>> country
>> just because they're on a boat.
>>
>> I'm thinking of making a movie.  Two guys cruising the country togeather 
>> in
>> their old wooden trawlers.  One paints his red, white & blue.  They just 
>> want
>> to see America but are constantly harassed by wave runners, fisherman &
>> various local law enforcement agencies telling them to, "keep moving 
>> along,
>> you're not welcome here".  Along the way they pick up a crewman that 
>> looks
>> alot like Jack Nicholson.  No, make that Rip Torn.  At night they sit 
>> around &
>> drink rum & tell old sailing stories.  In the end they're surrounded by a
>> group of waterfront condo owners in their big Sea Rays that live on lifts 
>> &
>> have no bottom paint who ram them until there's almost no trace left. 
>> Just
>> what's left of a wooden transom with the boat's name on it.  "Freedom"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course I'd have to work in some sharks & babes to actually sell it.
>>
>> Carl
>>  A section of a new bill (HB 7175) signed into law this week is titled 
>> Vessel
>> Mooring Field Regulation.  It says:
>>
>>  Section 327.02(15), F.S., prohibits local governments from regulating 
>> the
>> anchoring of non-live aboard vessels in the exercise of rights of 
>> navigation.
>> Public rights on navigable waters are not restricted to navigation in the
>> strict sense, but include such incidental rights as are necessary to 
>> render
>> the right of navigation as reasonably available.  The incidental rights
>> include the right of a vessel to anchor so long as it does not 
>> unreasonably
>> obstruct navigation.  If it is a live-aboard vessel or floating 
>> structure,
>> cities & counties can regulate their anghoring and mooring up to a flat
>> prohibition.
>>
>>  Section 327.02 defines "live-aboard vessel" to mean:
>>  (a)  Any vessel used solely as a residence; or
>>  (b)  Any vessel represented as a place of business, a professional or 
>> other
>> commercial enterprise, or a legal residence.
>>  A commercial fishing boat is expressly excluded from the term 
>> "live-aboard
>> vessel".
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