Gene Kearns wrote:
No.... not necessarily. I traverse the Cape Fear River and there are
stretches where two ferries are plying the waters. One leaves for
Point A headed for point B.... at the same time another leaves Point B
headed for Point A. Depending on waves, tidal current, wind, phase of
the moon, whatever, it makes a 5 mile stretch of the River legally
un-navigable.... and that is an area traversed by *ALL* of the
ships... pleasure and commercial (including barges and container
ships) headed for Wilmington,

Yeah, but the ferries won't pull out of their slips if there's a big
ship imminent in the channel. And the 100 yard / 500 yard rules are for
pleasure boats, anyway.


... the only deep water port in NC.


The city fathers in Morehead are going to be very displeased to hear that.


Couple this with the fact that most of this traffic passes close to
Brunswick Nuclear Plant and this simply gets silly.

Yeah but there's no way to actually drive a boat up *to* the nuclear
plant, is there? I mean short of taking a midget sub into the emergency
cooling water tunnel?


Net result is.... no boating allowed....

But surely, the if the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and the
price of safety from terrorism is eternally greater restrictions on all
citizens, then for all of us to give up boating is only a patriotic
sacrifice, right? Surely if President Bush demanded that we give up
boating, you'd comply readily

Regards
Doug King