Seems like we get into anchoring laws all the time... what the Feds say and what States and local municipalities say.
There's a few threads over on the AGLCA and MTOA dealing with the latest "rules" set up by my local Madeira Beach community, that doesn't know a rats behind about boats.
For the most part, most of us are on Federal waters, the ICW, which "should" be governed federally, but isn't.
A few questions.....
Where does the federal goverment (most likely the Army Corps of Engineeers) delegate the laws of anchoring to the states? And while this seems inconsistent with a good way to govern the waterways, why do they do that?
Shouldn't the Fed control the ICW?
And would it be worth a movement to push this responsibilty back to the Feds?
It's really a PITA for us boaters to look up each states laws and statutes.
Thoughts?
There's a few threads over on the AGLCA and MTOA dealing with the latest "rules" set up by my local Madeira Beach community, that doesn't know a rats behind about boats.
For the most part, most of us are on Federal waters, the ICW, which "should" be governed federally, but isn't.
A few questions.....
Where does the federal goverment (most likely the Army Corps of Engineeers) delegate the laws of anchoring to the states? And while this seems inconsistent with a good way to govern the waterways, why do they do that?
Shouldn't the Fed control the ICW?
And would it be worth a movement to push this responsibilty back to the Feds?
It's really a PITA for us boaters to look up each states laws and statutes.
Thoughts?