Cheers: To the Key West City Commission for quickly realizing the possibility of a state bill passing that would require all live-aboard boaters in the Florida Keys to move their boats every three months and discussing ways to mitigate the impact on local boat owners âliving on the hook.â Options being considered include expanding the 140-anchor Garrison Bight mooring field, and creating some new mooring fields, which would give live-aboards more places to go every three months. And Monroe County has been looking into new mooring fields options, including Jewfish Creek, Buttonwood Sound on the bayside in Key Largo and one in Boca Chica Basin.
Anticipating that a proposed state bill requiring all live-aboard boaters in the Florida Keys to move their boats every three months will pass, Key West city officials are discussing ways to mitigate the impact on local boat owners living âon the hook.â
City commissioners are discussing expanding the 140-anchor Garrison Bight mooring field. And Key West Port Director Doug Bradshaw said the city and Monroe County might work together to create some new mooring fields, giving live-aboards more places to go every three months.
âI think what you are looking at is anchors with buoys on them in certain areas. And then I would assume the county or city would manage them,â Bradshaw told city commissioners at their March 31 meeting.