skimmer_at_enter.net wrote: >Now your telling me that boaters going to Maine from other states got >to get permits before they launch? Hmmmm, got to spend more time in >Canada! > >Chuck Sutherland > If it came to having to do it, I guess what I'd do is get the %#$_at_ sticker and carry it with me when I paddle there. I refuse to deface a kayak with registration from a state I don't live in, and I'm certainly only paying once --- I'll bring whatever boat I want. Bottom line is that I've paid as much as $7 to park at a private launch up there to keep my car safe from locals (One spot I paddle on Muscongus Bay has had more than its share of kayaker vehicles vandalized), so $10 isn't going to kill me. What does bother me is the intrusion into my private affairs by submitting to registration. I'd much rather it were a permit, like a hunting or fishing license is. Of course, if they're tossing reciprocity out the window by making visitors register, then there's nothing stopping people from lying about who they are if they get caught paddling without registering --- there's no interstate reciprocity. Just have to hope they don't confiscate your boat...... Wayne - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Smith wsmith16_at_charter.net Check out my website!: http://webpages.charter.net/wsmith16/home.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 24 2005 - 19:35:36 PST
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