Attention San Diego Area Boaters >>> New Regulations

[DrJudyB]

Golly gee. I guess I'm taking San Diego right off my list of must sail to places. And from what I've been reading, all of California by the time I get there, would be a sail right on by, too. You California residents do have my sympathy.

Golly gee, Capta, you need to have a more varied reading list and some new information sources!

California has some great weather, and great wind and great sailing destinations. We residents enjoy some of the best year round sailing in North America.
No hurricanes or typhoons, either. No sympathy needed or wanted.

 

[capta]

Golly gee, Capta, you need to have a more varied reading list and some new information sources!

California has some great weather, and great wind and great sailing destinations. We residents enjoy some of the best year round sailing in North America.
No hurricanes or typhoons, either. No sympathy needed or wanted.

I was born and raised in Frisco and learned to sail on the Bay and up and down the coast from Mexico to AK. I doubt I need you to tell me anything about boating there, but had that state had all these regulations on boaters to take the pressure off the real polluters back then, I'd have left a lot sooner.
I did leave the first time California passed a law against liveaboards and only returned long enough to finish a circumnavigation, then, poof, I was off to more boat friendly communities.
I agree the sailing can be great, though north of Big Sur it's just too cold most of the time to be enjoyable, for me.
The fact that I can sail nearly a thousand miles, mostly day sailing, in beam winds from 12 to 25 knots in 80 odd degree temperatures and equally warm waters here in the EC, is in my mind far superior to anywhere else on this planet I've found for the shear pleasure of sailing. Never mind the lovely anchorages and hospitable island countries I get to visit as I sail around, without some piece of paper certifying my bottom paint (which doesn't work any more because of the new regulations) meets some silly requirements, while the real polluters are still dumping chemicals and poisons from their factories because they can afford to pay a pollution tax.
No, thanks for the head's up, but I'll pass on what California has become!

 

[Joe]

Like I said earlier.... most pro divers and in the water year round boat owners already follow the standards posted at the beginning of this thread... So it doesn't seem like they're asking us to make a radical change to bottom maintenance... rather looking for a way to monitor it to conform to existing standards. And that.... may be challenging.

 

[Davidasailor26]

Like I said earlier.... most pro divers and in the water year round boat owners already follow the standards posted at the beginning of this thread... So it doesn't seem like they're asking us to make a radical change to bottom maintenance... rather looking for a way to monitor it to conform to existing standards. And that.... may be challenging.

That’s not how I read fstbttms’s post (post 15).

 

[fstbttms]

Like I said earlier.... most pro divers and in the water year round boat owners already follow the standards posted at the beginning of this thread... So it doesn't seem like they're asking us to make a radical change to bottom maintenance... rather looking for a way to monitor it to conform to existing standards. And that.... may be challenging.

That’s not how I read fstbttms’s post (post 15).

It's not about BMPs. I and others are of the opinion that the Port is overstepping its legal authority to enforce changes in the way dive services do business and the local hull cleaner community are banding together to obtain legal representation and fight it. These proposed changes will not only take money out of hull cleaner's pockets but almost certainly force many out of the business. If you are a San Diego boater, you should be concerned as well.