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Lightnup
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Initially Posted - 07/02/2006 : 18:07:14

[url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/business/epaper/2006/06/27/a1d_marinalaw_0627.html"]Law lets marinas move boats[/url]

Interesting article. FL. marinas can now secure <i>or remove</i> boats and bill the owner. I can see where marina owners should be allowed to secure boats that aren't properly secured but I would think moving them would open a whole can of worms, especially if moved boats are subsequently damaged or destroyed in the storm. Once a marina owner moves your boat out of his marina, how concerned will he be as to whether it's secured properly or not? Who decides where he's going to put it?

Hopefully, Mother Nature will wait a long, long time before this law will be tested.

Steve

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Fort Myers, FL

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djn
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Response Posted - 07/02/2006 : 18:09:23

or very so steve so it can be tested in the courts. It seems to me that if a marina owner moves a boat, they are imideatly responcible for it. Cheers.

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Response Posted - 07/02/2006 : 21:21:55

An interesting article (It does not seem to affect those of us that trail each sail)... however...
Putting that together with the recent post about out of date state stickers, I wonder how it would pan out after a storm.

Two years ago we sailed our dinghy on the west coast of florida from a Marina there. There were many boats ill kept, and several that actually had trees growing on them (probably a seed took root in the grime on the boat) If the marina pulled them (and not sure where they would park them as there was virtually no trailer parking in the area (we had to park our trailer at the B&B)

So after the storm, who would put them back in the water, and during the parked period, who would pay for the storage.

Of course, if you look at some of the damage that boats in storage suffered just up the road from us, storage is not really the solution.

Paul

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Response Posted - 07/02/2006 : 22:21:37

I'm not sure that "removing" them from the marina necessarily means putting them on the hard. Couldn't it also mean towing/floating them somewhere other than the marina?

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