On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:30:59 -0700, Capt John wrote:

On Nov 1, 4:55 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:29:10 -0400, Wayne.B

wrote:
This is all good news of course, particularly to us since it is in our
home base cruising backyard of SWFL.

I suppose that will be true until some guy anchors his house barge
next to your dock and decides to live there.
Ft Myers Beach had the same issue with the floating slum they had
behind Matansas Pass. They really had a hard time regulating illegal
dumping, noise and general eyesores bobbing a couple hundred feet form
some guys million dollar house.

I didn't really have a "Vick" in that fight but it was easy to see
both sides had a point.

As a boater, and someone who has lived on the water most of my life,
if your going to live on the water, you have to learn to take the good
with the bad, you have to recognize that the water behind your
property is not yours. Their will be times when someone decides to
park their boat right where you want it least, probably at the worst
possible time. If you buy a house on the water where eyesores tend to
drop anchor, and you paid a milloin dollors for it, that's your
mistake, "let the buyer beware". That's like someone that buy's a
house next to an airport, and wants us to feel sorry for him because
of all the noise. That's not going to happen.

I'm a product of similar background and circumstance and couldn't
agree more. Granted, an intolerable situation can arise once in awhile
but there's generally some way to deal with it other than an ordinance
that interferes with the rights of people that it shouldn't.

Rick