Fat Jack..the law states that one is to go headway speed w/in 150' of a swimraft so it can be said that anyone with a swimraft is protected from fast boats at least up to a 150' radius. In reality that isn't true. Boats more often than not zoom past swimrafts at all different speeds...by the time MP is called these boats are long gone. We've had many problems with this but NOT from uneducated boaters who are coming close for a look-see but from the people who live in the cove we're on! We thought the swim raft would be a great idea to keep the speed down but these people almost do it on purpose as if to say..HA HA you're swimraft will do NOTHING to keep us from going at alaraming rates out of the cove...it's really frustrating. So I guess what i'm trying to say is..you think you're protecting yourself from fools but more often than not the law is unfortunately inneffective.
I didn't know swim rafts had to be w/in 75' of shore either..the dock guy who installed ours said it was w/in 150' of shore...anyone know who's right??