The problem with 'managed mooring fields' as I see it is: that anchoring in those areas BETWEEN the mooring fields will continue to be a 'crap shoot' subject to the whim and capricious 'local rules' and the 'revenue/extortion/coercion desire' of those municipalities .... AND those areas are simply beyond a 'one day travel' distance on the ICW for sailboats and other 'displacement hulls'. That alone will will 'mandate' that one with a sailboat or 'trawler' MUST be 'tied' to a marina at sundown .... or suffer the consequences of happenstance anchoring in a (now) 'prohibited zone'.
Thanks but no thanks, as my applied practice is to simply BYPASS most of Florida on my way to 'de islands'. Too many stupid 'local anchoring rules', too many landowners who think or assume that they *own* the federal (tidal) waterways just because they own waterway property, with insufficient FEDERAL control and administration of TIDAL waters, etc., ...... and as a US citizen ***I PAY*** in part for these administrations and upgrade to the federal waterways that have been functionally ceded to the 'congenitally greedy'.
Thank you very much; but, I'll continue to spend my $$$$ in the Bahamas, and further south etc. and simply use Florida as a 'port in a storm' to suffer the consequences of landing/anchoring in an area that has obviously become extravagantly HOSTILE to transient boaters (boaters with bucks to spend in the 'local economy') ... simply a 'revenue income source' for such municipalities. I'd state/recommend that those federal waterways in Florida subject to such inane local anchoring laws be DENIED federal funding for waterway management (equal use clause), including BRIDGE 'operation' & maintenance funding, etc. If 'they' want total local control of federal waters, let them spend their own money, not federal funds, for bridge, etc. maintenance, etc. especially if they impede or restrict 'anchoring' on federal/tidal waterways for those who 'travel' upon such FEDERAL waterways.
