[Public-List] reporting groundings

[gordon white]

        Well, my first reaction is that if the USCG has to at least read 
and file someone's report every time a boat (of any size) goes aground 
in Chesapeake Bay they probably cannot be doing anything else. Having no 
idea a grounding report was required, nevertheless I wrote the USCG last 
summer after going aground in three feet of water in the middle of what 
the chart showed as a nine foot channel, and about 40 feet from a marker 
(on the correct side of the marker.)

     This was in Virginia waters.  I suppose I'd better review Virginia 
rules, but I suspect Virginia really doesn't care about meaningless 
groundings. (Maybe if you are the USS Missouri they do)

     Just think of the number of small power boats that intentionally 
"ground" on sand bars to let children wade/swim.

  Mike: Does the USCG really require such reports, or is just Maryland DNR?

  - Gordon White, Brigadoon II