From a news story about the opening of boating season in Seattle:

" But before boaters hit the water, the Coast Guard has issued a number of
rules for boaters to follow.

They.re requiring boats to maintain 100 yards between their boats and
large vessels, including ferries, and operate at a minimum speed within
500-years of those vessels. Violators could face up to 6 years in prison
and a $250,000 fine. The Coast Guard is also advising boaters to operate
cautiously near naval vessels. "

If I can't operate my boat within 500 years of a ferry, when the hell am I
going to use it? I don't think I'll live that long.

Dan


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Marshall Banana wrote:
From a news story about the opening of boating season in Seattle:

" But before boaters hit the water, the Coast Guard has issued a number of
rules for boaters to follow.

They.re requiring boats to maintain 100 yards between their boats and
large vessels, including ferries, and operate at a minimum speed within
500-years of those vessels. Violators could face up to 6 years in prison
and a $250,000 fine. The Coast Guard is also advising boaters to operate
cautiously near naval vessels. "

If I can't operate my boat within 500 years of a ferry, when the hell am I
going to use it? I don't think I'll live that long.

Dan



It's the Bush-**** Administration. It can't do anything to protect us
from terrorists, but it wants to keep its fraudulent war against
terrorism uppermost in your mind.

Don't vote for the Bush-****ter this fall.

Also Sprach Harry Krause :

It's the Bush-**** Administration. It can't do anything to protect us
from terrorists, but it wants to keep its fraudulent war against
terrorism uppermost in your mind.
Shove your blustering diatribe up your butt, Harry. Regardless of what
you think of the Bush administration (And personally, I think they're a
bunch of crooks and profiteers) the 100/500 yard reg is a good idea, both
for the safety of the ships, and the small boaters. I'd say most
reasonable boaters wouldn't have approached within 100 yards of a ferry
even before this reg, for their own safety. Last year, I saw a 14' dingy
capsize and sink because he tried to fish under a ferry dock, just as the
ferry went to depart.

Dan

Well, they may have misspelled at least one other part of the regulation.

When boating within certain areas in and around Seattle, the biggest challenge
is to avoid coming within 100 yards of a fairie.
I've got nothing against ferrys, (or fairies). They go about their business, I
go about mine and there's plent of room for all on the waterways. Steering
clear helps insure that one won't be climbing up your transom when you least
expect it.

But hey, even with my speedy new engine
(I can now hit 10 knots if I lean on it really hard).....I got the minimal
speed thing down pat.

((No Opening Day raft up for this hombre this year......deadline weekend.
Drat!))

The total number of international terrorist attacks in 2003 -- 190
incidents that killed 307 people -- was the lowest since 1969,

And all surely because we were staying 100 yards away from ferrys. :-)

Those poor folks in Madrid should have stayed 100 yards away from the trains.
That's going to blow hell out of next year's
terrorist statistics. We've got to be ahead of 2003's 307 already- and it's
only April.

One death a year is one too many.

What sad frickin times we live in, that there are people so amoral or so
desperate
or both that they kill innocent people to advance a particular agenda. How sad,
as well, that so many people try to use the suffering and death of others
(after the fact) to promote one political party or the other.

All reasonable people agree that we need to solve the "terrorist" problem.
Reasonable people will continue to disagree about the best means to do so.

Cruised to Port Orchard last weekend, across the bay from the Bremerton Navy
Yard. They've got a serious security barrier floating out in the bay all along
the row of warships being fitted or overhauled there.
There's no doubt we'll see more and more evidence of being "at war" as we use
our boats this year.