kaydano
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3 boats, 6 families, 22 people = one awesome day on the lake!!!
I took the advice of the forum members and did not raft up with the other two "pointy" boats in our group, but rather we each anchored 40-50 feet apart (it was windy and changing directions) and what worked really well was to use one of the tubing tubes to shuttle the 2-3 people that didn't want to get wet from one of the pointy boats over to our pontoon. This worked great, especially with some eager kids willing to swim an empty tube over to one of the other boats to pick someone up (a couple moms didn't want to get wet). So, just thought I'd pass that little trick along in case someone can use it. I've never thought of doing this, and it sort of just happened on the fly and worked perfectly. All our tubes were 3 or 4 person tubes, so they were large enough to ferry one person at a time without them getting wet.
Anyway, my question is when does the legal passenger count limit come into play? When anchored in a cove with our friends, we never exceeded the 13 person limit of our boat, but we got close to the limit a couple times. Half were kids, so I'm sure we never came close to the weight limit. But, my question is can we exceed the 13 person limit while anchored? Is the limit only in effect when underway? Or is the limit in effect "24/7" so to speak?
Thanks,
Dan
I took the advice of the forum members and did not raft up with the other two "pointy" boats in our group, but rather we each anchored 40-50 feet apart (it was windy and changing directions) and what worked really well was to use one of the tubing tubes to shuttle the 2-3 people that didn't want to get wet from one of the pointy boats over to our pontoon. This worked great, especially with some eager kids willing to swim an empty tube over to one of the other boats to pick someone up (a couple moms didn't want to get wet). So, just thought I'd pass that little trick along in case someone can use it. I've never thought of doing this, and it sort of just happened on the fly and worked perfectly. All our tubes were 3 or 4 person tubes, so they were large enough to ferry one person at a time without them getting wet.
Anyway, my question is when does the legal passenger count limit come into play? When anchored in a cove with our friends, we never exceeded the 13 person limit of our boat, but we got close to the limit a couple times. Half were kids, so I'm sure we never came close to the weight limit. But, my question is can we exceed the 13 person limit while anchored? Is the limit only in effect when underway? Or is the limit in effect "24/7" so to speak?
Thanks,
Dan
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