Can't afford PNW waterfront property?

[localboy]

No problem. :roll:

by GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on August 27, 2010 at 5:48 PM


KEY PENINSULA, Wash. - Residents on the shoreline reported seeing people coming and going at all hours to a makeshift houseboat, having parties, involved in inappropriate behavior and, worst of all in the eyes of the law, just staying anchored in the same place.

"House boats normally have to be in approved marinas and we don't allow live-aboards in the kind of manner we were experiencing here," said DNR Enforcement Chief Larry Raedel as he watched the boat being towed away from the shores of Key Peninsula.

The vessel is composed of some kind of old tri-hull boat with a crooked shanty built on top.

"This particular vessel did not have a way to handle sewage and those kind of issues and things were coming apart off the boat," said Raedel.

DNR officers are teaming up with groups like Citizens for a Healthy Bay, to find these boats and convince their owners to turn them over for proper disposal.

Officers say many of the Puget Sound's most scenic bays have become illegal parking lots for unsafe vessels. The plan is to get them before they sink. After that the cost of recovery goes up and they will have already spilled their toxic contents into the Sound.
Officers emphasize they don't want the boats, they are just going to be disposed of, but they can't afford to just leave them out there threatening the bays and shorelines.

Residents watching the stepped removals this week applauded the action saying sometimes more than a dozen old boats will tie up together to make one large floating heap of barely operable boats.

In the case of the floating shanty nicknamed Waterworld, DNR officers said the owner agreed to turn the boat over the DNR and avoided any legal action.

http://www.king5.com/news/local/DNR-On-Illegal-Boat-Patrol-101689073.html

 

[Dreamer]

Mark,

Right on! These folks are some of the worst polluters, yet the authorities take years to get around to prosecuting them. Then it's a slap on the wrist and we all pay for disposing of the garbage. An example is Mystery Bay.

 

[starcrafttom]

One day i hope to have a live aboard but that is a little different then the "floating homeless" I see in a lot of bays and rivers. I was surprised by the number of them in Eagle harbor. Some of the most expensive property in the state is on this bay and the harbor has some of the scariest crackheads I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them. there were several using the public dock while we where there and i was afraid to leave the boat alone. One keep walking back and forth doing his best charlie Manson staring into the boat.

but its the boats that are the biggest concern. non running falling apart rotten ready to sink floating junk, and that's the nice ones. I have no problem with them using public waters to live as long as the boats are serviceable.

On the American river we had a big problem with this in the mid 90's. one family lived on , let sink, and got another boat 10 times. the tax payer and the fish paid the price every time. they are used for meth labs a lot, you can tell the meth labs by the dogs. I counted 8 pits on one 48ft sail boat once.

not sure what the answer is. but there are already laws on the books that could prevent some of this if they where only enforced.