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Originally Posted by Steveo
Can you sleep overnight on a boat (houseboat, whatever) that is on your legal mooring?
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When I took the Certification in 2001, I asked the instructor to clarify and I pushed and tweaked for all the details I could get. If she hadnt had a good sense of humor I sure she would have been annoyed by how I tried to find a loop-hole.
At least her interpretation. To legally sleep in a boat on a body of water in the State oh NH, it has to be tied up to a dock or at a legal mooring that you have permission to use. So, yes you can.
If the boat is floating free even with a "watch" that is illegal.
If the boat is underway cruising back and forth all night, and there are people asleep in the cabin, that's illegal.
A boat load of fisherman with one passed out in his seat is illegal (I was really a pest!).
Sneaking onto somebody else's mooring or dock is illegal. Probably just trespass, I didnt push it.
Hiding in a mooring field is also a no-no. Hiding in an area with a lot of registerred individual moorings is not good.
FYI - A vessel legally moored in a charted mooring field or on a registerred individual mooring does not have to display an anchor light so we should all be careful cruising near shore.
Good luck!