hmason
Guru
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2013
- Messages
- 2,814
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Lucky Lucky
- Vessel Make
- Pacific Mariner 65
So I'm heading south to Solomon's on the Chesapeake at a raging 9kts. Ahead of me are two sailboats both under power with sails up as well. Also ahead of me is a white buoy that marks the boundary of a "Security Zone." There is deep water on either side of the buoy.
In order to slow pass the sailboats and not throw a wake, I slow down to about 6 kts and cut inside the buoy by about 5 feet. Suddenly a sheriff's department rib comes flying after me with lights and siren blazing. The gunwale of the RIB was lined with 5 machine gun armed LEOs. They tell me I violated a security zone and demand a driver's license or other ID. I provide the license and they tell me they are taking a picture of it and forwarding it to the CG and that I might receive a fine from the CG. They never asked if I had a weapon on board despite the fact that I had to leave the bridge and go inside the boat to retrieve my license. If I were bent on destruction I could have come back out of the cabin with a rocket launcher. I guess they just had nothing to do except hassle a law abiding recreational boater.
I asked them how far I was into the security zone and they replied that I just cut the edge of it by a few feet. Oh, well.
In order to slow pass the sailboats and not throw a wake, I slow down to about 6 kts and cut inside the buoy by about 5 feet. Suddenly a sheriff's department rib comes flying after me with lights and siren blazing. The gunwale of the RIB was lined with 5 machine gun armed LEOs. They tell me I violated a security zone and demand a driver's license or other ID. I provide the license and they tell me they are taking a picture of it and forwarding it to the CG and that I might receive a fine from the CG. They never asked if I had a weapon on board despite the fact that I had to leave the bridge and go inside the boat to retrieve my license. If I were bent on destruction I could have come back out of the cabin with a rocket launcher. I guess they just had nothing to do except hassle a law abiding recreational boater.
I asked them how far I was into the security zone and they replied that I just cut the edge of it by a few feet. Oh, well.