Richard Malcolm wrote:
Thanks everyone
it is great to hear you views.
besides thinking about my friend, I was actually thinking about it for
myself, but not until many, many more years of boating and living. I
am thinking of bagpipes, dixeland band and scatter ashes at sea.

I have a friend here in Vancouver who charters now & then.
A few years back a lady asked Doug to take them out to scatter her
dad's ashes. As she went to write the cheque, he said you might want
to know the name of my boat .... "Sea U Later" . She laughed and said
that would be fine.

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"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
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Richard Malcolm wrote:
A dear friend passed on this week and had some of her ashes scattered.
Made me wonder when I go, is there laws against scattering ashes at
sea?

Legally, all that's required is that
you be at least 3 miles offshore.

Peggie

A traditional send-off for a departed surfer includes a 'paddle-out' to the
selected surf break and then simply scatter the ashes. Prolly not even 100
yards off-shore..

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003...0322_44_47.txt
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...c20taylor.html

Peace...

Rick

(Richard Malcolm) wrote in message . com...
A dear friend passed on this week and had some of her ashes scattered.
Made me wonder when I go, is there laws against scattering ashes at
sea?

Calif Bill mentioned rules about a being a mile out but that it's
allowed in San Francisco Bay. I was not aware of any significants
restriction on navigable water (probably prohibited in Richardson Bay?
That's an NDZ). There are very few if any. I had an aquanatence
that was active in the CGAux - the CG provided a boat for his ashes to
be scattered just outside the Golden Gate - I don't think they went
much past mile rock.

Not many restriction on scattering ashes anywhere. It's done from
aircraft over land and sea all the time - it's really only prohibited
if the falling "object" is a hazard to people below.

allowed in San Francisco Bay. I was not aware of any significants
restriction on navigable water (probably prohibited in Richardson Bay?
That's an NDZ).


NDZ applies ONLY to toilet waste.

Peggie
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Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
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Peggie Hall wrote in message ...
allowed in San Francisco Bay. I was not aware of any significants
restriction on navigable water (probably prohibited in Richardson Bay?
That's an NDZ).


NDZ applies ONLY to toilet waste.

So as long as I don't flush my beloved Aunt Marge through the
Lectra-San, I'm cool? ;-D

rmalcom--
A dear friend passed on this week and had some of her ashes scattered.
Made me wonder when I go, is there laws against scattering ashes at
sea?

df--

Feel free to contact these people (I have no financial interest, blah
blah blah).

http://www.neptunesociety.com/

Sorry to hear about your friend Richard. When my mother passed, I
scattered some of her remains in her beloved St. Johns River. The
remainder in the Atlantic. To her favorite music, Wayne Newton's "Gentle
on my Mind." She was a marine biologist.

Anyone in the Jacksonville, Florida area needing assistance with
scattering some ashes is welcome to contact me.

Capt. Frank

Richard Malcolm wrote:

A dear friend passed on this week and had some of her ashes scattered.
Made me wonder when I go, is there laws against scattering ashes at
sea?