Illegal Rafting Enforcement, Operation Dry Water

[Tuckntruck]

Originally Posted by Susie Cougar

How does an area become prohibited?

I am specifically curious about the area known as Kona Mansion. I remember many years ago when Lauris Avery and Ruth Hanks had issues with boats anchoring off their property.
I know they both had a lot of problems and now boats are not allowed there anymore. How exactly did that happen?
Were they re-directed into Braun Bay and is this how that Sandbar became so popular?

Boats are allowed, you can anchor a single boat just like anywhere else. It’s a prohibition on rafting. I grew up spending summers there, on Catlin Estates Rd/Colby Rd. Grandparents owned the property with the gazebo. (House is gone, gazebo is still there). It was never as big as BB is though.

[Susie Cougar]

Originally Posted by Tuckntruck

Boats are allowed, you can anchor a single boat just like anywhere else. It’s a prohibition on rafting. I grew up spending summers there, on Catlin Estates Rd/Colby Rd. Grandparents owned the property with the gazebo. (House is gone, gazebo is still there). It was never as big as BB is though.

Thanks. My parents lived on Long Point. They are now deceased, but my sister and her husband still are permanent residents.

I think you’re probably quite a bit younger than I am, but for a very short time around 1974 to 1976, I lived in the second house on Long Point Road, right behind the Catlin Estates.