Coast Guard Aux Question
So on Saturday we went up to the local river and anchored just short of the popular sandbars. This is not a marked anchorage. The navigable part of the river where we anchored is about 200 yards wide. Arriving about 1 hour before high tide, I picked my anchorage area and went from one side to the other and picked a spot reading just over 6 foot on the transponder. I dropped anchor. The tide range is around 3-4 foot so I felt this as the best spot to avoid bumping aground when the tide dropped. This put me in the middle of the river, with about 100 yards either side of me.
I frequent this spot very regularly - in fact most weekends, and know the layout.
After about 30 minutes a CGA boat passes by. In the 11 years I have been going to this spot I have never seen them up there. It was probably because of the holiday weekend. As they pass by one of the six or so on board leans over the rail and shouts to me, "you should pick one side or the other to anchor!" They then move on.
My wife then turns to me and asks if we should move. I told her no. And explained my reason. She said someone in authority had told me to, and I advised her that they have zero authority. In fact when I was doing ny CGA class and they found out I had a suitable boat they asked me to join and use my boat! Regardless she was uncomfortable the rest of the afternoon.
The reason I gave her was this. I am the one responsible for the safety of the vessel and the crew. I made a judgement on where to best place my boat. I was causing no impediment or danger to any other boater. I further told her that I believed that the CGA guy was out of line. If I reacted to his direction and upped anchor, then any injury to a crew member in that act, or accident later caused to my boat or another (whether due to the repositioning or not) would make them open to liability.
Thoughts?
I frequent this spot very regularly - in fact most weekends, and know the layout.
After about 30 minutes a CGA boat passes by. In the 11 years I have been going to this spot I have never seen them up there. It was probably because of the holiday weekend. As they pass by one of the six or so on board leans over the rail and shouts to me, "you should pick one side or the other to anchor!" They then move on.
My wife then turns to me and asks if we should move. I told her no. And explained my reason. She said someone in authority had told me to, and I advised her that they have zero authority. In fact when I was doing ny CGA class and they found out I had a suitable boat they asked me to join and use my boat! Regardless she was uncomfortable the rest of the afternoon.
The reason I gave her was this. I am the one responsible for the safety of the vessel and the crew. I made a judgement on where to best place my boat. I was causing no impediment or danger to any other boater. I further told her that I believed that the CGA guy was out of line. If I reacted to his direction and upped anchor, then any injury to a crew member in that act, or accident later caused to my boat or another (whether due to the repositioning or not) would make them open to liability.
Thoughts?
Maybe if we tell people that the brain is an App, they will start using it.
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With your Zimmerman post up to 289 pages I would think there is an answer in there.
It's all about maintianing station or holding ground.
YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP! Seriously. Do it for yourself and loved ones. You have issues
Like biking on a busy road. Legal, yep. Wise, no. Nothing wrong with anchoring on the edge of a channel.
when we say the same thing about welfare recipients, you cry like a wounded buffalo Sopchoppy
It's their money, they spend it how they like. Truth and honesty have nothing to do with it. - Mr Jr
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Next question.
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One can only assume that you are as strange as your reply.
One can only assune that you might be the Aux. clown that yelled at him.
Nope. But I do respect um for putting in their time and trying.
RIB with 9.9 Yamaha kept on the foredeck.
For overnight I lay down anchor, 10 foot chain and 50 foot rode.
As a matter of fact I retrieved that CGA boat's heave-to line, later in the day, which somehow found it's way in the middle of all the boat traffic....I think the dude standing on the foredeck dropped it, poor guys were pulling anchor to chase it down in the tide.....they seemed nice enough though.
At least they were out there concerned...because that place turns into a zoo real quick....
Steve
I didn't see you come back - did you go out the Hugonote side?
Steve
I don't think so.