On 6/1/07, Bradford_Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu> wrote: > > > Our group was of mixed abilities, and we sought refuge on a nearby > beach. > Upon landing, a person came running down to the water's edge, yelling > and > screaming, demanding that we re-enter the maelstrom immediately and die. > I > will never forget that day. > > My standard reply in situations like this is to demand that they go ahead and "call a cop". Most police officers have no clue about land use laws but they can recognize a dangerous situation. It's much easier to reason with cop than a storm front. Many landowners either assume that they own all the land they can see or they assume you don't know anyway. My next door neighbor has decided that a stake marking the "meander line" of the lake is his corner marker and is trying to say that we are on 20 feet of his property. I just smile at him. I've looked at the plat maps (one of my clients is a land survey and engineering firm) and I'm comfortable but every now and then I see him with a tape measure in his hand clambering over the fence to double check what he thinks are the measurements of his lot. When I actually did surveys for a living many years ago (as a youth) I watched landowners come down and move offsets for a right-of-way because they "know" that isn't the edge of their land. (Offsets are placed 10 or 20 feet away from a surveyed point so surveyors can go back in and find it after the point has been destroyed by equipment without resurveying the entire line.) The San Juan Islands are interesting in that about 80% of all the shoreline homes are empty and 30% of thsoe are for sale at any given time. The chances of anyone noticing your landing are, I suspect, very remote in that particulare area. Craig Jungers Royal City, WA *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jun 06 2007 - 16:51:24 PDT
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