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Originally Posted by XCR-700
Yes I have seen it at West Alton and your 4 - 5 boat estimate is way off, its huge.
Are you talking about 4 - 5 35' boats or 20' boats???
It probably displaces more than double your 4 - 5 boats estimate just around the parameter, let alone the actual footprint of its structure.
In a place like Braun it would have minimal impact, but somewhere like West Alton or ever worse the Paugas sandbar, its overwhelming!
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XCR... You have your math wrong!
The NHMP measures from the gunwale to gunwale when determining rafting distance, not center line to center line.
The Dive measures at 20' beam x 60' length. so to make it easy, say you are in a no rafting zone like Braun or West Alton where boats have to stay 25' apart.... the Dive takes up the same approximate space of 2 boats (8.5' x 20')... 17' for the beam of the 2 boats + 75' distance.
25' + (Dive 60') +25' = 110' total
25' + (8.5' boat) + 25' + (8.5' boat) + 25' for s total of 92'
So there is really only 18' linear difference.... so to be fair lets say it takes up 2.5 smaller boats worth of space... or 2 large cabin cruisers!
In places like Braun Bay & West Alton, its entirely possible for them to anchor outside the no rafting zone.
In places like the Margate sandbar.... it is not a NRZ.
Woodsy