Hi, Registration fees for canoes and kayaks-fightin' mad! Out here in old PA, I've never been able to find anyone that cares a bleep about the problem. What's the problem? I have no objection to paying my fair share for a permit to use my boat on the local State Park lakes. I have more than one boat; so does my wife. We have also, sailing canoes! We use our boats one at a time! Oddly enough, commercial p[eople with a collection of boats only need as many permits as boats they will use at any one time, and they can just switch the permits from one boat to another. Terrific..It's just the ordinary public citizen that they want to bleed to death. To be fair here, I want HUNTERS and FISHERMEN to get separate permits for each of their guns and fishing poles that they intend to use in the forests and on the waters of the GREAT STATE of PA! All I ever hear is HA HA HA; they really hammer you, huh! HA HA HA HA! See that; I even hear it now as I write this! Hunters and fishermen would blow the suckers to hell for such a proposal. Paddlers? Just keep paying! 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 *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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