http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/zon...enda-city.html
"DESTIN — Does Destin harbor need a bigger no-wake zone?
That’s the question Destin City Council will take up at Monday’s meeting, when a resolution asking Okaloosa County to expand the zone southward and put up signs to that effect is on the agenda.
The idea is the brainchild of Councilor and charter Captain Kelly Windes.
“The present no-wake zone needs expanding,” Windes said at a recent council meeting. “Some fishermen are against this — I guess I, myself, was one of them, but ... we’ve got more jet-skiers, more pontoon riders” and not all boaters are careful about them.
“A lot of mornings, all the boats will be inside the jetties catching fish,” Windes told The Log later, “and yachts just come barreling through.”
“The big boats do not slow down and they are causing wakes,” Charles DuPlantis of Boogie’s Water Sports told The Log. “Big boats that run in and out of the pass are the problem.”
Public Services Director Steve Schmidt said this week that the council can’t act on the problem directly because Okaloosa County holds the permits for all the signs and navigation markers. He said the resolution requests the county extend the no-wake zone south to the northern end of the jetties and provide navigation markers at the intersection of the Old Pass Lagoon Channel and the East Pass Channel — roughly the entrance to the harbor."
If they get their wish it would really suck....
Rick
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