Unusual MP activity

jrc · 05-30-2006, 10:32 AM

There's a lot of comments about the MP and there ability or desire to enforce the temporary 600' wake restrictions.

My observations were contradictory with each other. First both Saturday and Sunday what looked like an MP helicopter regularly flew from the airport, over our marina and all around the Governor's Island area. I don't know if they actually coordinated the boats in the water but they were obviously trying to make a statement. They were low and loud.

But Saturday, when I would have expected every available man to be actively enforcing the NWZ, I saw a MP doing what looked like training. I was anchored off Timber near the noise test area. A small 12'-15' outboard MP boat approached. There was a uniformed MP aboard and a person in street clothes. I thought they were coming to talk to the three cruisers rafting pretty close to the beach. But they came to practice landing the boat on a undeveloped shore. They would run slowly towards shore, drop an anchor of the rear, then motor slowly until the bow was in the bushes and they could step, dry footed, to the shore. The MP did it twice, then the trainee (?) did it a 5 or 6 times. Well at least they're training new people.

05-30-2006, 10:32 AM	#1
jrc Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NH Posts: 2,689 Thanks: 33 Thanked 439 Times in 249 Posts	Unusual MP activity There's a lot of comments about the MP and there ability or desire to enforce the temporary 600' wake restrictions. My observations were contradictory with each other. First both Saturday and Sunday what looked like an MP helicopter regularly flew from the airport, over our marina and all around the Governor's Island area. I don't know if they actually coordinated the boats in the water but they were obviously trying to make a statement. They were low and loud. But Saturday, when I would have expected every available man to be actively enforcing the NWZ, I saw a MP doing what looked like training. I was anchored off Timber near the noise test area. A small 12'-15' outboard MP boat approached. There was a uniformed MP aboard and a person in street clothes. I thought they were coming to talk to the three cruisers rafting pretty close to the beach. But they came to practice landing the boat on a undeveloped shore. They would run slowly towards shore, drop an anchor of the rear, then motor slowly until the bow was in the bushes and they could step, dry footed, to the shore. The MP did it twice, then the trainee (?) did it a 5 or 6 times. Well at least they're training new people.