FWC

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. It's been interesting to hear the discussions of many of the live aboard people here. One issue is boats with the federal coastguard registry from out of state don't feel they need to have an additional Florida registration for their boats? The issue that seems to be the hotter topic is whether or not dingys should be required to have navigational lights.. It seems back in Grand Marais if the dingy has an outboard it should have the stern white light and green and red bow lights.. Down here the live aboards seem to imply the FWC is just making up the rules as they go? It's been said the sheriffs department used to oversee such things but handed it off to the FWC ? FWC would be like Minnesota's DNR which it seems to me oversees both boat registration and navigation lights though the later is also enforced by the coast guard and sheriffs water patrol if there is one? It's a big issue and they're having a special meeting tonight at the marina, though we didn't go. A few dingy owners just when ahead and bought a set of solar charged battery operated nav lights and have no worries about confrontation or potential fines. Most dingys did get a stern white light but there was some rule about if the dingy was capable of doing 7 knots you needed the bow lights as well. Most dingys can do 7 knots though no one runs wide open so they're going more like 3 to 5 knots .. Anyway I have no idea what the law is but the majority of the live aboards here feel the stern light is all they should be required to have. I wanted to check out the meeting out of curiosity but the captain wasn't interested.

I guess we will set out Monday though I'm not sure what time. New horizons would be nice!