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Originally Posted by HellRaZoR004
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OK, I see it now. So please delete this whole thread, or half of it! LOL.
So I'll stick by my opinion that this is only a case of a home owner not knowing how to be tactful and helpful and they weren't polite about it. There is no saying that people must be polite (it sure would have gone a long way if they were), so I'll leave it at that.
Checking all reasonable resources we could find, both at the time and after the fact, the two charts were checked and there was no hint of it being a NRZ.
I humbly apologize to all involved for not having all my facts, and for trusting what I thought was two good resources. I even double checked an online map that is supposed to be up to date, so that it's not subject to the problems of having an old printed chart on the boat.
I'll also let the owner of the boat I was on know that we narrowly missed getting a ticket (maybe not actually, as we ended up outside of the 150 ft from the dock in question, it was another boat that had the more active confrontation).
To those that say 'why bother, just go somewhere else', I don't think a bully should be able to continue their cause. It just lets them continue to push people away. So if a lake bully is pushing people away without cause, how do you suggest it is stopped? Boaters shouldn't have to put up with this any more than land owners should have to put up with unruly boaters.
In this case *I* was wrong, and I admit it now that I have learned the truth. But it sure was hard to know, I tried to do my homework, while at the site and also afterwards when at home. No, I didn't pull the tax maps and cross check the written laws with the tax maps. I used the resources available to most boaters on the lake. I even tried to do extra work and checked an online resource that promotes that they have up to date chart data online. I was wrong again!
Feel free to ignore me in the future.