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Originally Posted by Skip

As long as you use due care, the 150' rule does not prevent you from skiing from a dock, pier or the shore:


270-D:2 General Rules for Vessels Operating on Water. –

VI. (a) To provide full visibility and control and to prevent their wake from being thrown into or causing excessive rocking to other boats, barges, water skiers, aquaplanes or other boats, rafts or floats, all vessels shall maintain headway speed when within 150 feet from:
(1) Rafts, floats, swimmers.
(2) Permitted swimming areas.
(3) Shore.
(4) Docks.
(5) Mooring fields.
(6) Other vessels.
(b) These requirements shall not apply when:
(1) Starting skiers from shore, docks or floats, as long as neither the boat nor the skier is endangering the life or safety of any person.

Cobalt is right though, I think. For years most of us didn't do a beach or dock start because of that. The first time I heard it was still legal was when one of the first boating classes was held at WCYC and the instructor said it was ok.