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Thread: Mayor and Havasu Channel(this guy is nuts)

  1. #11
    Havasu_Dreamin
    Be sure to run your engines
    You may not want to do that as it is against the law due to the CO stuff.

  2. #12
    OnlyMoney
    You may not want to do that as it is against the law due to the CO stuff.
    It was meant to be a funny.
    <-----not a very good comedian.

  3. #13
    Havasu_Dreamin
    It was meant to be a funny.
    <-----not a very good comedian.
    Ahhhhhh, gotcha.
    <------------completely clueless at times.

  4. #14
    Not So Fast
    There are signs at the North and South entrances that indicate that no vessles in excess of 36 feet are allowed to enter the channel. From what I understand this was originally enacted to prevent houseboats from crusing the channel and mooring. I imagine the Dixie Belle has some sort of waiver as do the larger boats during the poker runs. Also, as Uncle Larry said, the signs can be flipped up which in effect remove the size limitation at that time.
    At a meeting I attended last year about the mooring issue there was one city council member ,Cindy Aldridge, who made the comment that she believed the problem (air polution, CO2) was from all the BIG BOATS she saw in the channel that weekend and asked if there wasn't a law to keep them out. This happened to be the weekend of the Poker Run and the parade of fantastic big money machines was incredible! Apparently she was unaware that the city lifts the ban on BIG BOATS on that weekend so that they can be in the channel for all of us common folk to see. How much money do you think the Nautical brings in on that weekend for the ballers? This is whats running the city of Lake Havasu, or at least trying to! NSF

  5. #15
    TCHB
    Who do you think fills the hotel rooms from April through October!!! Boaters with friends and families. This major has to go!!!!!!!!!!

  6. #16
    Channel Rat
    Everyone see the save the Channel Post posted earlier today. Show your support.

  7. #17
    KLEPTOW
    Maybe some of us out of towners that own property there, need to register and vote.

  8. #18
    Havasu_Dreamin
    Maybe some of us out of towners that own property there, need to register and vote.
    Uhhh, if it's not our primary residence we can't do that. But I wish we could.

  9. #19
    Havatty
    LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ - If the buying of the English Village by the city of Lake Havasu wasn’t enough to stir the fans of controversy, along comes Mayor Harvey Jackson’s proposal to ban mooring altogether in some sections of the channel. Business owners in the channel and elsewhere are outraged. One called on the mayor to “stop raining on everyone else’s parade.” (see Letters to Editor)
    Mayor Jackson told onlookers at city hall yesterday that he sold his boat after 30 years on the lake. He especially couldn’t stand the heavy traffic and large boats jutting out in the channel and he says channel cruising “hasn’t been realistic in the summers” for some time now. He thinks it’s time to consider the community first.
    Former mayor, Bob Whelan, who was ousted by Jackson during the recent recall election, says the mayor’s proposal is “shortsighted.” He says the city must consider what the effect would have on businesses and the sales tax. Whelan says obviously “tourism is our biggest industry” and “boaters are big spenders.” He believes just because boats have gotten bigger “doesn’t mean we stop them from going through the channel.”
    Meanwhile, Jackson may have the votes. Councilman Allan Sturtevant agrees with the mayor, saying the south side of the channel is especially bad with boaters “leaving their boats running, drinking, and splashing around in the water.” He says he’s not currently for a total ban of mooring in the channel, but the issue is “still open for question.”
    A so-called “moor-in” is set for Sunday in the channel at 1pm. Organizer Gregg Staples says, “it is our channel we’re not giving it up and we’re not going to let them take it away from us.”
    Harvey Jackson is an attorney that practices in wills and estates, I believe. Interestingly, he owns a boat storage that is located on the property where his law office is. I know this because I stored my boat on his property for about two weeks.
    I think it is very interesting that he is attempting to take business away from channel businesses by this mooring law, but is still willing to enrich himself by owning/operating a boat storage.
    It may be slight, but I view it as hypocritical.....

  10. #20
    KLEPTOW
    Uhhh, if it's not our primary residence we can't do that. But I wish we could.
    Tell that to this guy who has never lived in the district he was elected to serve for. Robert K. Dornan

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