Does anyone know what the overnight beach rules are regarding boats on St. Augustine? Family is renting a house and I would like to have my boat down there for the week without causing a kerfluffle.
Try the folks at Fleet 80 in Daytona.
The 83? Hobie Midwinters East was at St.Augustine Beach. We drove and parked on the beach. Times may have changed.
I did some research and found some
new rules
posted in 2007 that state
so, I guess that settles that...but I may put in a phone call to double check, or, errr....have a problem with the boat that needs to stay overnight for the repair to cure <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />
Does your rental have a dune you can roll it behind
I'm pretty sure the snipers would take me out for rolling a boat over the dune. They have a 30' exclusion zone where you can't even put a chair near a dune...yet, you can drive on the beach. There is no beach access wide enough for a boat within several miles.
Wait, if I can drive on the beach (with a permit)...hmmm.
scratch that...satellite photo shows very little beach at high tide added to which, I would have at least a couple of miles to drive on the beach to get there. I'll find some mast-up storage somewhere.
Unfortunately you're not going to be a few miles south in Volousia county where there basically are no rules on what can stay on the beach overnight.
Looks like I'll just have to choose better next time.
Or just store your boat a few miles south.
Several years ago I rented a Playcat from Raging Water Sports there ( http://www.ragingwatersports.com/ ). It appeared they had some beachfront property populated with chairs and other stuff, in addition to some of those floating docks. May be at least worth the time to consult with them on space (no doubt at a price).
Cool...I'll give them a call. I didn't see any apparent beach access from the satellite photo so I didn't think to call them.
Ideally, I want to be within range of our rental house so I can sail the boat up to the beach house to use it for a couple of days (and back to the launch for the night). That place is about 10 miles from there so that's pretty doable if they can accomodate it.