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Originally Posted by WolfieBayer
Look at the Graveyard outside 19 mile bay. Regs. say you have to go headway speed through all channels but I've seen on more occasions than not boats going through the channel on plane. Again, a law on the books, unenforced except by happenstance.
Another poor example of legislation was the year that the lake levels were so high that a headway speed rule was imposed for the entire lake because of landowners complaints regarding their shorelines eroding away.
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Your statement about going at headway speed through the graveyard is a surprise to me. Is that really a marked channel that requires headway speed, or just 10 bouys that mark the only way through the rocks? I've always assumed the latter.
On the topic of headway speed rule. I liked it because I only lost 2 feet of shoreline that year instead of four. But - going at headway speed for two weekends killed my boat. Unbeknownst to me, the oil injector wasn't working well at idle speed and I burnt the rings in my motor.