Has to be more to this....

Judge James Spencer, QC, told him: "The shame you must feel having allowed your vessel to go aground one can only imagine.

"The fact you were found at the time to be over the limit with alcohol may suggest to many people the two are connected. I am not persuaded that they are.

Judge obviously not worried about a bit of heavy drinking.

What is excessive use of a dredger?
 
jhr said:
Yup; same as the limit for driving a car, iirc, though legislated about separately. I think the same law also applies to leisure boaters, hasn't yet been actively enforced but will be soon?
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It does - there was a lot of debate about it on these boards when it was introduced a few years ago.

IIRC a strict reading of the rules means that you can be prosecuted for being drunk in charge of your boat even if you are securely tied up in a marina and have no intention of going anywhere until sober.
 
The shame of running your boat aground...... Quite a few heads hung low around here then. Mine too, but not recently :-)

One assumes the 'wrong way' bit was traffic separation. This is a bit like foreign web sites with dodgy english. Why can't they find someone who understands the subject before putting it up?
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Re the excessive dredging....

Using a dredge to fish for the scallops will damage or destroy the habitat of the molluscs each time the dredge passes over the same area,and results in loss of a species for that area when overdone. Dredges are used here locally for the oyster fishing and in past years would have had a good haul of these and scallops and clams,and cockles. Sadly the fishing has failed for the last three types,but not only due to the dredges, but the pollution ,over many years.

ianat182
 
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