NYCkayaker 5 boro and the USCG

[sandy sobanski]

I was telling Erik...My favorite guy this summer-- really--was telling every kayaker he came up to-or decided to come up on fast--- to stay always stay 1000 yards away from the island of Manhattan at all times. He had no clue-just made stuff up.  He had big guns on his small fast boat. I just "yes"ed him to death....What are you gonna do.  It got to be pretty strange.

mike <mpidel at optonline.net> wrote:                 It is also totally against the environmental aspects   kayaking/canoeing and for the coast  guard to make such a requirement. The coast guard are  power boat mentality and are akin to the SUV loving cops that the bicyclist deal with on the road. The water is relatively warm, so hyperthermia due to along immersion should not be a problem.  If paddler don’t have locating beacons on their pfd’s a signaling sausage would also be a low tech but reliable device to spot a swimmer.   If the coast guard or coast guard aux wanted to provide a electric powered boat as  sag wagon, that would be one thing, but they , the cg are ignorant of kayak operations, and all their power boat  requirement would create unnecessary wakes and stink. The kayak/canoeist  can effectively rescue fellow paddlers  safer and without damage than a prop turning vessel with a  swim platform  smashing crashing in the waves.    The new  coast guard commander 
 cancelled the  Cape Ann Blackburn challenge 2 years ago due to the his  ignorance  of the ability of trained paddle and rowing boat people  to safely navigate in the fog  around Cape Anne in Gloucester mass. This was the first time the race was cancelled and it was the cg call .  Quite a few of the paddlers did the circumvention anyway, without incident.
  I think the coast guard overall has been dumbed down like anything else. They are better trained at intercepting drug smuggling than boating 
     
  
  
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