I got my first ticket today..

[Mr. Buss]

so i took the boat down the saginaw river, been dying to try this new prop i got..

went to bay city, on the way back i was in the last strech before the no- wake zone, water was nice and flat, so i decided to throttle it up, and well there was a dnr officer off towards the shore, yeah i saw him said "o-*****, i quickly choped the throttle as he picked up his radar gun..:brickwall::brickwall:

so i pretended i didnt see him as i backed it down to about 45 or so, i turn around,... yup, he's haulin the mail, right behind me, so i continued on, got to the no wake zone, he comes flying up next to me, "shut that thing off.....NOW!!!" he says. then he says, "Dont you know there is a speed limit on this river!!" i replied, with a confused look,... Really?? "its 55 and i got you at 68 and you were slowin down!! so naturally he wanted the see all the nessisary equipment, which requires a " throwable life preserver" which i did not have, :shakehead: so he wrote me a ticket for inadequte PFD's which suck's, but the speeding ticket probably would have been worse...



anybody know how much this fine is??? the nice officer didnt know.....

PS i sure am glad i have to go to the courthose "in person" for this, because i will be out of town on bussiness all week!!!!!!!!!! :poke:

[TheNerd]

SOOO, should you change your name to Mr. BUSSted??:rof:

[Big Red]

I would move. No speed limit here. Its all out and don't look back and they don't give a crap how loud it is.

[kct11]

thats good to know, cause i had no idea there was a speed limit......sucks that you got busted. what is a throwable life preserver??? you mean like a dounut with a rope on it?

where is he hiding out????? you see, my gps is on the fritz and i just gots to know:rof:

[teamhart2]

been studying up cause I gotta get the NH boaters license since they wont count my old NY one from when I was a kid...... throwable lifepreserver is usually one of those cushions, I use one on my seat to give me a two inch lift anyways, or a ring

sucks about the ticket

[merc245]

So what your really trying to say is,That your finally learning to drive that thing Ah!:poke:

[WILDMAN]

I got my first one 3 years ago down here. I was runnin kinda fast demoing my twin 21 Liberator. I was clocked at 114 mph in a 30 zone! Ticket was only $50. Cop said he'd be speeding if he had my boat too! The customer riding with me ordered a twin 21 that day, so I guess it was worth it.

[JW]

I'm surprised he was able to get you on radar. When the sherrif tried (many times) to clock my 21' Pulsare he could NEVER get a lock. Was he using a laser or radar gun? I'm pretty sure my guy was using a radar.

[TLB]

Mr. Buss, where you going from Vet's bridge to Laffeyette bridge, or were you going from Wheelers Marina to Independence bridge when he said you were speeding?

[SCT]

Buss- did Mr Law say anything about the 200 ponies on the back of your Predicter?

[Mr. Buss]

he was sitting under the bridge near......... two bridges south off I_675, the last one before the old train bridge, so like 1/2 mile north of ojibiway

supposed to be a type 4 throwable, which is either a cushion or a ring, suprisily

he didnt ever look at the motor which he probably didnt care anyway, and as for the radar....... i didnt ask

[Mr. Buss]

So what your really trying to say is,That your finally learning to drive that thing Ah!:poke:


thats funny!!


i got a 28p chopper from 83predictor and jacked the motor up, and now ya got to hold the steering wheel with your life, so the chine walk is minimal now :D

[TLB]

he was sitting under the bridge near......... two bridges south off I_675, the last one before the old train bridge, so like 1/2 mile north of ojibiway

supposed to be a type 4 throwable, which is either a cushion or a ring, suprisily

he didnt ever look at the motor which he probably didnt care anyway, and as for the radar....... i didnt ask
ok, you were in Saginaw and not Bay City.
We have quite a few county patrol boats, I think 3, plus the Coast Guard too, so keep an eye out for them when you get on it around here :thumb:

[83PREDICTOR]

Did you get any speed and rpm numbers yet with the Choppy28?

[Mr. Buss]

Did you get any speed and rpm numbers yet with the Choppy28?

no, forgot the gps...it was at home with my "throwable" pfd!!

i really like that prop, i think to get some speed numbers im gonna have to try it after work during the week, there is just enough traffic to keep it sensible, besides that my driving skills arent perfect yet, but gettin better!!

its a whole different animal with the motor jacked up, and this was the first time out with this setup.

[illMATTic]

if i had a dollar for everytime i have been stopped on the water in that boat.... i'ed have enough for a 12 pack.

last year there was the dnr flat bottom sitting just north of the Z bridge. i blew past the launch there and just as i went under the bridge i saw a glint down river. somthing told me to let off the gas. a half mile down was the dnr hidding around the bend. i strolled by at 50 and waived.

i have never once been asked about the HP rating. i have only been stopped once for speeding. i was only ticketed for following too close to a jet ski.

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[kct11]

with you both being stoped for speeding, but ticketed for some other reason, i wonder, is it hard for a speeding ticket on the river to stick? i mean there are no speed limit signs, they stop you for an aparently legit reason, and then write you up for another?? i wonder what gives??

[illMATTic]

with you both being stoped for speeding, but ticketed for some other reason, i wonder, is it hard for a speeding ticket on the river to stick? i mean there are no speed limit signs, they stop you for an aparently legit reason, and then write you up for another?? i wonder what gives??

i wondered that myself. i did read on the MI boating site that there is a 55 mph limit on all waters and no limit if you are 2 miles out in the great lakes.

[teamhart2]

with you both being stoped for speeding, but ticketed for some other reason, i wonder, is it hard for a speeding ticket on the river to stick? i mean there are no speed limit signs, they stop you for an aparently legit reason, and then write you up for another?? i wonder what gives??

from what I have heard from when they went to pass speed limits around here is that its prolly more of a nightmare for the cop to write a speed ticket than the other stuff, and heres why:

unlike cars, boats dont have real accurate speedos, and in order to really enforce the law, the government would have to regulate speedos in boats so drivers would know how fast they were going- easy to fight

radar (dunno about laser) has proven extremely unreliable on water

I think I have seen a few other reasons, but cant remember now

[remlinger]

thats good to know, cause i had no idea there was a speed limit......sucks that you got busted. what is a throwable life preserver??? you mean like a dounut with a rope on it?

where is he hiding out????? you see, my gps is on the fritz and i just gots to know:rof:

Yup 55 the max and also on inland lakes counter clockwise is the direction of travel. How many times do you see that happening?

[speedracer292]

I haven't had to deal with them in about 8 years, but then again, I moved south about 8 years ago......

I think it's a civil infraction, and I think the max fine is $100, but I can't seem to find the penalty at legislature.mi.gov or at boat_ed.com/mi/handbook/index.htm

Hopefully I won't get popped for any minor (or major) violations when I put in up there for the 4th......

[speedracer292]

In Michigan, as of May 2007, everything on the water except one ski violation and drunk driving is a civil infraction now. Fines can be up to 500 bucks, per the legislative website....

BTW, I was reading the DNR reports online at work today.....
Apparently Saginaw is in District 6 for the DNR.....

Check the link.

You're famous!

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/6-1-08__6-14-08_238830_7.pdf

Excerpt:
CO Dan Lee was using radar on the Saginaw River when he clocked a vessel at almost
70 miles per hour. The speed limit on inland waters is 55 miles per hour. CO Lee found
that the vessel operator was also short on personal flotation devices (PFDs) and did not
have a fire extinguisher on board. Enforcement action was taken.

[Mr. Buss]

I FEEL LIKE A CRIMINAL NOW!!!! :brickwall:

[illMATTic]

he he he:rof:

[Mr. Buss]

since this came back up, i had spend 4 hours in CRIMINAL court, for them to issue my fine, i had to wait for the child abusers, drug trafficers, and all the other inmates, then i could see the judge, why i had to appear in person is beyond me. so it was a $50 dollar fine, $40 court fees, and a $10 conservation fee..and a half day not makin' any money:brickwall: