It's been tried already. Once you leave the "anchor"... it's considered a
mooring.

CM

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| To get around any mooring law simply use a huge anchor.
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| Leave it down indefinitely once placed and bouy it with
| a trap float upon which is written "anchor-private".
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| 'No anchoring' laws are much harder to enforce because
| anchoring is considered navigation and navigation comes
| under the auspices of the feds who could care less about
| what some local community wants to ban. Admiralty law
| protects and favors the right to navigate and thus to anchor.
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| S.Simon
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| "John Cairns" wrote in message
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| Had this discussion not too long ago, apparently there were moorings in
| these environs in the 60's, the locals on shore objected to them,
claimed
| they were visual pollution, got the DNR to ban them. There were no
| organizations in these parts to oppose them, they ban was made to stick.
On
| Lake Michigan, sailors successfully fought off the DNR, you can still
find
| moorings. End of story.
| John Cairns
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