Very interesting news. Seems like a great segue towards overnight transient docking for a fee. I now boat on the ocean out of Hampton and we typically do some sort of overnight (or longer) trip somewhere every week. While I'm out cruising, my marina slip is available for transients to use (and their slip is available somewhere else, and so on) so the addition of a few temporary transient slips can open up slips in multiple other places. I find it astonishing that with all the cabin cruisers on the lake, none of the town docks on Winni allow overnights stays.
FWIW, I have been anchoring, using transient slips, lock walls, town docks, and moorings for overnight stays extensively all over the north east US and south east Canada for years and I have never experienced any noise issues from fellow boaters at night. Noise has not been an issue even in known party hubs like Provincetown, Alexandria Bay, Dow's Lake and Oak Bluffs.
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