Anchor-out boat-dwellers to be cleared from Oakland Estuary
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2023
- As acts of piracy continue at the Oakland Estuary, the community is pointing the finger at so-called anchor outs, llegally living on the water. Kenny Choi reports (12-15-23)
The boats out there are trashed, no longer seaworthy (sails shredded, broken rudders, non functioning engines, missing masts). Many were likely fine when purchased and quickly ruined due to inexperience/inattention. These are not homes, they are hazards. Speak with the people aboard them- they are not experienced mariners and they have no idea what they are doing; It’s not safe for them. This is not equivalent to a trailer on the sidewalk. It is a major burden to the public and a hazard to navigation when they inevitably sink their boats. A free boat becomes a $10-$100k salvage operation to get off the bottom of the estuary, for the public to pay for. Owning a boat that lives in the water is expensive, takes constant maintenance, and specific knowledge to maintain. It is a fallacy to think you can just obtain a free boat and live for free, carefree, on the water. if you want to allow people to live at anchor (to which I have no inherent objection) you’d have to make sure they know what they are doing (boater’s license at a minimum?) are registered, insured (liability against sinking?), allow for USCG safety inspections and to confirm they are not pumping overboard, and eliminate any legal provisions that prevent enforcing any of these rules on the basis of these boats being ‘homes’. Seems like mandating insurance would resolve the entire matter, as nobody would underwrite those boats.
And what is the city/state spending on all the homeless or druggies on land. Oakland is the worst spot in southern Ca.
Are you afraid you might hit one of these sunken hulls with your $200,000 pleasure boat.
@@CarlGlassmeyer-jj5qw these sunken boats often hit the rocks and sit there for months/years with their masts sticking out of the water. People tie objects to them to make them more visible. Eventually they roll over into deeper water and who knows. And then taxpayers spend millions to pull boats off the bottom of the estuary.
It is busy with ferry traffic, ship traffic, and home to thousands of sailboats and powerboats. Sunken boats are definitely a hazard. The last boat that washed up on the Alameda Beach in a storm and was stranded for a week. The owner was high, angry, and refused any help. Sails tattered, the most ridiculous lines used for anchor rode which is why he washed up on the beach. Gudgeons ripped off the transom, so bye bye steering. Had to wait until the next high high tide when the police could yank him off the beach, promptly sank a couple of days later a few hundred yards off the beach with the mast standing vertically out of the water. Owner walks, community pays big bugs to clean up the mess. This happens over and over again.
@@916S1 Did that one wash ashore at Robert Crown?
@@CarlGlassmeyer-jj5qw Are financially stable folks not allowed to own boats and use the waterways they pay taxes for? Never mind we all know the answer. It's crazy that folks always believe the level of wealth they possess is ok, but someone with a little more disposable income is obscenely wealthy and doesn't deserve the toys they own.
My sailboat is on a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Sometimes, I go out for 3-5 days and often ‘anchor out’. I dinghy ashore to marinas and / or restaurants. But, HUGE but, no real sailor / boater EVER empties their ‘black water’ tank into the Bay. Get caught doing that and you will be in very deep do-do. Those who anchor out permanently are a serious problem….freedom is not free.
Nobody wants that s***, the pump outs are free for a reason
Schedule a visit by the Chinese president to the area and Newsome will clean it up.
Yeah why can't they live in tents like everyone else in Oakland
There shouldn't be poop in the bay, it belongs on the sidewalks!
What's a little chemicals, poop, oil in the bay? Piracy and drug dealing by the "rotten apples"?
And there is no way the other anchor-outs do not see and know who is doing all of that. And by not reporting, they are aiding it.
Imagine if instead of funding billionaires’ private space programs we housed our population
@@randbarrett8706yeah just invite them to move in if you can afford to pay their rent
I worked in a luxury yacht shipyard and we had a floating homeless encampent just upriver. They occupied a navigable waterway where a large vessel could turn around. We had issues with thieving and security in our launch and docking facility almost every night. It took one of the homeless boats to sink and spill diesel into the river before they were "relocated". Yes, it was a total sh!t show.
KEEP VOTING for the DNC they are Always here to HELP! Always ends WELL!
"What did i do wrong?" Yeah, thats the ticket!
Meanwhile, junkies and bums are shitting on the the streets and tossing needles on the ground..
Make it legal to defend your property and see how long it takes for this to stop happening
The Coast Guard should have never allowed it to happen in the first damn place. Methhead acting a victim, priceless.
coast guard is worried about being all over the world now as part of homeland security..instead of taking care of our own right here..pathetic democrat garbage
Democrat stronghold
Dude who runs the Coast Guard@@badneed ? Do you think they report to Oakland's mayor?
@@AndyCutright Coast Guard is run by the Commander in Chief YOUR president BIDEN
Install a huge toilet seat around the entire bay......,makes crapping in the bay legit.
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ive seen some shady hoarder types and the water is dirty i find garbage in the water
Pirate druggies w/nowhere to go, I'm missing the reason why I should give a fk about them.
They must all go!
There are piracy laws that might be used to these thieves .
Any equipment should have drivers numbers etched on the front. Thieves hate to get caught with items with identification numbers
problem is there is only one officer patrolling this area. They are training others but the bureaucracy keeps them from patrolling very much
@@mr.factoid105 then boat owners will have to invest in GPS trackers that have adjustable circle of allowed movement.. my friend put that on his car.. cops stopped his car within 5 minutes because he knew it had moved.. they can even use those Apple air chip that notify when a phone passes.
door mats that have sensor pads.. somebody climbs aboard and they step on the welcome mat.. it triggers an alarm..
Ring cameras have Solar charged cameras that contact the base station.. i would think that the boats are all plugged in at the dock.. unplugging from the dock could also trigger an alarm..
putting tracker chips inside the pieces of equipment..
having a padded case to take the equipment off the boat when you leave..
one friend used a marlin spike to push a hole thru the ropes to allow a padlock to be pushed thru locking them on the cleat.. makes it harder for the average people to untie the boat..
i had one friend who let out his anchor when tied to the dock.. enough slack in the chain to allow tides to go in and out.. but dragging anchor makes it really hard to untie and float your boat away.. as long as the anchor chain slack is padlocked around the capstan head so it can't be pulled up or fed out..
I'm no Salor, but I do believe
"Free Anchorage"
Is embedded in our constitution.
There is a History of it.
more homeless people breaking the laws
Warf rats ....
Sad, as always a few bad apples.
Imagine if we just housed our population
There will always be trashy people whether on land or water, they're lazy trashy ways are more of a impact on the water than in the trailer park.
Trashy people yes, but not squatters.
Age-old reaction, Guilt by Association. When is "I don't have anywhere else to go!" an answer to You Can NOT Stay Here. But I want to continue to live cheap and pollute, its my right
This is what happens when hedge funds and Airbnb slumlords make housing unaffordable. People need a place to live, regardless of your individual hate for them.
You VOTED FOR THIS, you need to live up to YOUR vote and live with it 🤷♂️ keep voting DEMOCRAT and expecting different results. Then, get upset when nothing changes 🤦♂️
Funny how thing's change during election year's
About time
They are not living illegally theyve got to live somewhere not all boaters are bad news 😮
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' Sex , drugs and rock & roll man !'
Do what you want.
Heck with getting a job and a place to live like everyone else.
Does nobody realize that we're in at war r.n.? Maybe the coastline should be a little bit more secure but the people living there should feel safer not be pushed out of their homes.
That's somebody's home regardless if you would live there perhaps they feel forced to move to the water. Perhaps we should make sanctioned areas with high background check security❤ not only will the people on land feel safer but the people forced to be out there will have a safe place to be...
I do not mean you need to pass a security clearance to anchor. Rather that the security is well trained and surveillance themselves ❤
Will do Admiral KVAR.
The war on the homeless.
Actually, Maritime law allows craft to anchor. out.
Isn't this exactly the utopia Kommifornia wants?
Smoke on the water......
What laws are the anchor out people breaking and I doubt that rousting anchor out people is the answer to the problem. Has even one person been caught and charged or are they just infringing on these people to make it look like they are doing somthing
Read the story about the five powerboats that were stolen from the Alameda Community Sailing Center and ravaged, trashed, painted, sunk, and the last one found tied up next to the raft up of these derelict boats.
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The floating homeless, very clever!
OK I understand they gotta move them but They have to go by Dec 21st ? They could have waited till Jan 1 And I don't even like XMass!
Mostl likely drug addicts.
Did you Vote Democrat, this is what you voted for.
Are there homeless people doing this in Florida?
@jerseythedog
"Not where rich people live"
The local authorities have no jurisdiction or right to evict these sea people. This video is so misleading and one-sided
40 years of raygunomic trickle down
This is not the Great Depression. Jobs everywhere. I am sick of hearing from all the people who are professional victims.
There are some pre judgemental people in the comments . Whoclearly aren't that bright ..
Because there is a number of contributing factors that has led to this
Pay for mooring or move you boat!
Look man , Trump can sort this out! Just take the red pill now !!!
Maybe stop treating drug addicts like they have a disease.
Or maybe we should get your mom to have a talk with the governor. With her hatchet wound and dsl's
@@mattchonnahaf8069 I never did drugs. Wasn’t hard to do.
We tried that. Not working out.
Maybe quit coddling them by handing out money and narcan .
@@AndyCutright no we fucking didn't
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
because of course there's no way to remove offenders and let the innocent stay... leave those people alone who are hurting nobody
Rich people getting of the poor
International waters are 12mi out. Moor there. 😀
Nice looking lady
Just leave the anchor outs alone. This is not a big problem. Nobody is really getting hurt. Come on, this is the Bay area. We love everyone here. We need more anchor out areas so that all of our wonderful immigrants have more options to stay.
The marinas bottom line is being hurt…
Now the coast guard should have some safety standards and the EPA should be monitoring pollution, but other than that, it is better for them to be at sea than on land.
You are part of the problem.
Letting criminals run rampant is not "love".
So where do you think they go when they need to defacte ?? keep it in a bucket on board..?
Love is sometime yelling get out of the dang road before they get ran over. Kind of the same principle here except not only is it dangerous to them it causes damage to others and pollution.
Removing the unhoused and marginalized people, gosh that’s racist. Tsk tsk tsk tsk. . .