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I have been reading up on the liveaboard law in GA and it just sounds nuts to me. Without going into great depth because it has been discussed here already I would like to write a letter to Governor Perdue just to see what type of answer a person would get. The thing is, as I read your post 90% of you seem to have the gift of writing that I just do not. I know what I want to ask it just doesn’t seem to flow.

1. If I am paying a Marina, I am safely docked, pumping out, paying taxes, what is the issue?

2. 30 days a year?? Technically I was doing that on the little powerboat I have now. A 30 day law not only discourages liveaboards but is an unreasonable request by anyone to make. I could invest …$20,000 - $500,000 in a boat with 3-4 bedrooms, A/C, 2-4 Bathrooms….. and I cannot live on it for more than 30 days a year?? Insane!!! That law deprives me of doing something with my family that I consider very important. If I want to go stay on my boat every weekend I do not believe this should be breaking the law!!

3. I fully understand where the law was intended to go but believed it missed the target. I do not believe anyone in their right mind would want to deprive a coastal family of a lawful boating life.

4. I believe the law could be re written in a manner that states I have to be in a Marina and not anchored out for more than say 60 days in a calendar year. Or something to that affect.
It is a work in progress but feel free to polish. More just looking to see the response, but amazed this has not been challenged.

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