Georgia DNR Approves Extended Liveaboard Limit
Victory for the megayacht & cruising community.
Posted Mar. 1, 2012
Good news for cruisers & megayachts, Georgia has extended the time you can liveaboard a boat at a marina or mooring field in the state. The state was famous for being the only one on the east coast of the US to impose a strict 30 day liveaboard limit on boaters. Although cruising advocates and boater's rights groups would have preferred the limit to be removed completely, the increase is definitely a step in the right direction.
According to an article in today's Flordia Times-Union, GA state representative Jason Spencer presented the House Bill 1064, in order to attract vacationers who stop on their way cruising between Florida and states to the North.
“Unfortunately, we get a bad reputation,” he said, noting that Georgia is the only state on the East Coast with a 30-day limit. “I talk to folks in Savannah, and they see the boats going by, and they don’t stop.”
The Times-Union article also quoted Rep. James Wilkinson, R-Sandy Springs. “We see, at St. Simons and at Jekyll, vessels that go right past us, and they would stay if it wasn’t for these restrictions.”
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-03-01/story/georgia-dnr-committee-approves-90-day-limit-liveaboards-marinas#ixzz1ntrwpeDb
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