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I agree that is confusing and I have also raised that question with our staff. Unfortunately,FWS is responsible for the no camping/fires/skiing buoys in the middle and Lake Havasu Marine Association (I believe) is responsible for the north and south no wake buoys. The other perhaps bigger...

Gee, thanks!

Absolutely. Also, I have a burst of photos which would establish to the satisfaction of any reasonable observer that this boat did in fact blow this wakeless zone and that the violation did not stop at the zone boundary.

If you compare the mission statement of the three big Department of the Interior agencies (Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service- Forest Service is actually Dept of Agriculture but probably similar) you'll find all three have some variation on "protect...

Like Kiln State Park over on San Juan is pretty amazing if your son would enjoy watching orca fishing right off shore. Have fun! Wish I were heading north!

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I did not have any opportunity to stop this boat or the others we are discussing. If I could have stopped him then and there I would have done so. We would then have completed a vessel safety inspection and looked for any indication that he was impaired as we do with everybody we contact in...

I picked that particular one because the boat is from Texas and I figured it was unlikely to be known to anybody on RDP. But If we agree on this one I think we'd agree on most if not all of the actual tickets that have gone out.

Those are going to receive tickets; others which were less severe are being sent warnings. There was no opportunity for a safety inspection of these.

Uncle Kennys for breakfast- simple food and friendly people.

That is one of our photos. We got about 20 over the holiday weekend which were pretty egregious- skis and boats, private and rentals. I'm glad to see that most folks responding share my opinion that this is not acceptable.

Thought I'd share one sample from the 4th of July of the sort of stuff we're seeing in photographs which lead to actual citations. This is the dredged channel on the California side at the mouth of the river and a no-wake zone for several years.

Yeah, but I hear you have piranha! We do pretty much just patrol from Contact Point to I40, but occasionally up further upriver or down to the Bill Williams River NWR. We keep another boat down there though and usually just drop it in the water to patrol at the south end of the lake. My...

Well, thank you for that, motherfucker😉. I've been at Havasu for four years. Prior to that I spent three years boating full time in South Florida and several summers boating in Alaska. While I think the statistics probably support your claim that Havasu has gotten safer over the...

I totally agree that untrained boaters are a big part of the safety concern on Lake Havasu. Arizona is one of the very few remaining states that does not require boater education, and that is an opportunity for this community to flex its muscle for something really positive by demanding...

Has anybody here actually gotten a ticket from me or have first hand knowledge of what tickets I've written and under what circumstances?

I already made that donation to Big Brothers as promised. To further clarify the citation process (which again represents about 1/20 of the number of warnings given based on this photo enforcement to date)- any time I send out a citation my name and phone number appear at the bottom. I have...

RiverMobster, When you phrase it as an "agenda" it is already implying something nefarious and I'm generally not going to respond when people call me a "motherfucker" or imply that I'm friggin' Dr. Evil. I will try to explain my "agenda" as I have in bits and pieces elsewhere. You all...

Thanks, Dave. I enjoyed talking with you and look forward to meeting up in person some time. Maybe Boat Cop would join us for a beer too?