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will have any effect. Ablative paint is designed to come off and shed trouble- some organisms. So long as it is cleaned, to expose the surface, it will continue to come off. Folks, we are getting into spend- ing a considerable amount of money and we deserve some accurate answers on this, not more politics. Cliff Klinert
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Follow the money Re: Congress extends 2014 tax breaks for boat owners (Feb. 13 issue). @TheLogNewspaper money is managed and manages people and government through private creation and debt by a wealthy elite. Not taxes #congress. Matt Holck Submitted via Twitter
Technical Foul Re: Appeals Court rules against Fish and Wildlife in stocking case (Feb. 13 issue). From what I understand, if CDFW wants to adopt these regulations they can; they just have to go through the process again, this time following the APA noticing pro- cedures. Dave
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Bureaucratic “sophistication” Re: Avalon seeks engineering study for fuel dock safety (Feb. 13 issue). A “study?” Just ask the skippers and licensed cap- tains who use it every day. Sometimes the “eggheads” know lots about books but nothing about practicality. As for chemi- cal/fuel contamination — set up monitor- ing devices. Isn’t that part of why we have the Coast Guard and the Marine Department? It’s a fuel dock, not a nuclear power plant. Use some common sense. Larry Bing
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Transformative waterfront definition Re: San Pedro waterfront redevelopment might overlook boating interests (Jan. 30 issue). Transformative waterfront = politi- cal campaign contributions. Cliff
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Watered down Re: Avalon seeks engineering study for fuel dock safety (Feb. 13 issue). Avalon offi- cials should also inspect the fuel tanks. On numerous occasions I’ve purchased fuel that had abnormal amounts of water in the water/fuel separator after filling up. Anonymous
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Flicker of hope . . . Re: Port of San Diego Chair Dan Malcolm looks ahead, promotes recreational boat- ing (Feb. 13 issue). I’m happy to hear that the new POSD chair, Dan Malcolm, is an avid boater. I can only assume that previ- ous chairpersons have never enjoyed San Diego Bay from the vantage point of a boat, as there has been no “love” for recre- ational boaters in San Diego for many
years. While I can’t speak to many of the complaints posted in the Comments by reader “P.D.,” I can certainly echo his senti- ment that San Diego is a second or third- class operation from a boater’s point of view. No public dock offering daytime access to downtown. Very limited anchor- age options. If Mr. Malcolm would like to effect some change in San Diego Bay for recreational boaters, I would suggest that he take a look at the way things are done in Newport Beach and Long Beach. These destinations are much more “boater- friendly.” Now that Chula Vista redevelop- ment planning is underway, I am hopeful that Mr. Malcolm will “lead the way” in the pursuit of a public dock as part of the
plan. Last time I checked, boaters have money, so why not give them a chance to tie up and spread it around a little bit? LP in SD
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Small boat owner blues Re: Port of San Diego Chair Dan Malcolm looks ahead, promotes recreational boat- ing (Feb. 13 issue). This interview has some really odd statements that don’t make sense. Everyone knows that the port is a corporation that must make money from the government, military and commercial tenants that get first priority. Marinas and small boat owners have always been treat- ed as “blight” on the port according to Mayor Cox, and are blamed for every sort
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of problem, including major sewage leaks from city sewers. The copper bottom paint issue is just another example of small boat owner harassment. The port has worked out a scheme to fix a paint pollution prob- lem that doesn’t exist, with regulations that don’t do anything. And the taxpayers paid for it in the form of a state grant. The loss of Knight & Carver leaves us without a boatyard that caters to small boat owners. Is there a yard that allows you to haul out on a Friday, so you can work on your boat by yourself (for free) on weekends when nobody is around? Is there a yard that allows boat owners to stay overnight in the yard? The universal lack of guest docks around the bay makes it impossible to get
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