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Hawks Nest
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/14/2009 9:28:13 AM
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Now please don't read my question the wrong way and start lecturing. I am only asking so I can educate others.
Please someone tell me what the current law is regarding boating and drinking. I KNOW one can't be over the legal limit, but is it illegal to have a beer in your hand while cruising around, slowly, on a slow moving boat? Common sense tells me that if the MP spot someone with a beer, they will be checked, but I haven't been able to keep up since the bad accident awhile back. Many thanks.
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slownez
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/14/2009 10:11:11 AM
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I went up to the Marine Police booth at the boat show and asked the same question. There is no open container law on a boat, like there is in a car in AL. The driver just has to be below the legal limit if checked. Last year was a zero tollerance year. More boats being checked than I have ever seen in the past years. I believe this was due to a crack down on underage drinking. They are adding two more patrol boats this year, so I would expect more stops this year. Also I saw several times last year the patrol boats hiding in certain spots waiting for boats to pass, just like the troopers do on the highways.
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Swimmer27
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/14/2009 12:17:17 PM
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Not only do they hide in the bushes, but they watch with binaculars and may stop and cite you hours later for a witnessed offense. This doesn't happen so much here because of the size of the lake I would imagine, but it has happened to me twice on other, smaller lakes. (Lay and Logan-Martin and neither time was I the driver)
Also one other rule that is unique to boating and drinking is that if you have anyone under the age of 14 on the boat when you get a BUI, all fines and sentences are doubled.
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Mack
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Well, LM asked for it....
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2/14/2009 8:10:32 PM
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Me too!!
Many of us have griped about "Pet Peaves" that annoy LM owners about "those people" that are here. Like:
- GoFast Boats -WaveRunners
- Big Wakes - Alcohol
- Boat Lights - Noise
- Fishermen - Development
- Restaurants - Garbage
- Pollution - HOBOS
- APC - FERC
- et, al ad nauseum
Well, crap!!
Up until about 4 years ago my Bride and I would look forward to a Late Afternoon Cruise on Beautiful Lake Martin just before sunset, with drink in hand, moving at about 3MPH, looking to see who had added what to their place, and what else might have changed since the last cruise. Met many, many boats doing the same thing. Just MAGIC!! Sunsets! Water! Agh! Just Magic! Nobody died. No property damge. No wakes. No complaints.
Well, that's gone. That cruise ain't Magic anymore. It is a spy mission to hide my beer from the MP.
It really sucks!
Let's gripe some more. Maybe we can get Sunset Cruises Banned??
Somebody famous once said "Be Careful what You Ask For. You Might Get It?"
My apology beforehand. I bitch too, too often. MY Bad.
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Mr.Jenkins
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Totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!
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2/14/2009 9:05:22 PM
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Hawks Nest
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/14/2009 10:09:04 PM
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Thank you for your response. That was precisely the answer I was looking for.
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solvacc
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LM is still beautiful
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2/14/2009 11:43:08 PM
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You don't always need a beer to enjoy the lake. Its quite beautiful all by itself.
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Thomas Paine
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/15/2009 12:58:58 AM
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Doubled penalties for having someone under 14 on board is not unique to boating. It's actually included under the DUI law as well. I'm just curious...how do you hide a boat in a bush?
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Swimmer27
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Drinking and boating rules?
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2/15/2009 8:13:50 AM
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Obviusly it works, if you have never seen them. ;<)
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wix
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Don't forget....
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2/15/2009 8:44:28 AM
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the accident last August that claimed one, or maybe two, lives involved folks on the lake, enjoying themselves, when run over by another boater, now charged with BUI and killing someone. More presence by the MPs could have discouraged that young person from getting in the boat after drinking AND that family run over could have been you. If that sunset cruise is your first opportunity for a drink, go for it, but if it is the last of many that day, the MPs may be looking for you.
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Swimmer27
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Don't forget....
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2/15/2009 8:59:54 AM
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The accidnet last year was a tragic loss, but if you think having one or two more WP would have prevented it you are delusional. If the prescence of law enforcement were that good of a detterent nobody would ever drive drunk. How many cops are around after a football game? A NASCAR race? Concerts? Cops are everywhere after these events, yet folks drink during and drive after. So explain to me how two more officers patrolling 44,000 acres of water is going to be such a huge detterent.
My point is that anyone irresponsible enough to drive while drunk won't stop and say hey, I better not do this becuase there are two more WP this year.
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Mack
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LM is still beautiful
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2/15/2009 7:11:31 PM
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Sorry, a beer during the cruise is not essential, but is is a part of a much-enjoyed ritual that is being buried under Me-Me-Me griping. I don't hurt anybody, damage anything, and I want to be left alone!!
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| Name: |
Mack
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Don't forget....
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2/15/2009 7:21:21 PM
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You ignored the point of my post in order to zero in on alcohol and the tragic accident last Summer. Good tactic, but I don't buy it.
To clarify my point, we gripe about things from A to Z, constantly, and sooner or later, somebody with the juice to do it will pass a law to prohibit it.
Is that clear?
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HOT ROD
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So what you're saying is......
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2/16/2009 2:06:19 AM
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is that you're an alcoholic. Because you can't enjoy something without alcohol.
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lamont
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C'mon Hot Rod
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2/16/2009 9:45:38 AM
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Being an alcoholic and simply enjoying a late afternoon beer on the lake are hardly the same thing. My wife and I take a pizza and a bottle of wine for a late Sunday afternoon crusie most every week on the pontoon. We stop in the middle of the lake and watch the sunset. The MP's have checked us out twice and had no problem with us, given the fact we were just floating and obviosly not over-indulging. And yes, I suppose we could still enjoy the sunset minus the wine, there is just something about a toddy and sunset that's very appealing to us. Oh yeah,that glass of wine is our first cocktail of the day. You moralists who twist a can of beer into being an alcoholic need to get a life.
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Talullahhound
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Don't forget....
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2/16/2009 7:16:34 PM
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Blame the ones who overindulge in any given thing. They create a 'problem' that has to be "fixed". If more people worried about safety, and then courtesy to others, no one would think a rule was required.
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Mack
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Thanks, Lamont..
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2/17/2009 6:45:02 PM
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You actually read the whole thread and understood the issue before replying.
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woodman60
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Don't forget....
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2/18/2009 4:58:20 PM
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IF....If The accident happened , as I recall, in the middle of the night. If the MP had been patrolling at that time then maybe the accident could have been avoided. IF .. If , as I recall, one of the boats had not stopped in the middle of the lake in the middle of the night, the accident could have been avoided. IF ... IF... the boat that hit the boat that was stopped in the middle of the lake in the middle of the night was off course by 20 ft, the accident could have been avoided. Tragic as this has been, it has brought newfound interest in boating safety. IF .. IF .. everyone drinks responsibly and everyone look out each other it will safer for all. But only IF.....
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