§ 35.16. General Operation of Boats, Motorboats, and Personal Watercraft.

(1)

All boats, motorboats, and personal watercraft shall, whenever possible, keep at least three hundred (300) feet behind any boat towing a skier and shall stay clear of, by at least one hundred (100) feet, any boat or motorboat anchored or used for fishing. When a ski jump is in use, all other boats shall, whenever possible, stay at least one hundred (100) feet away on either side and five hundred (500) feet behind the ski jump.

(2)

No person shall operate any boat, motorboat, or personal watercraft recklessly, overload any boat, motorboat, or personal watercraft, indulge in any motorboat or personal watercraft race, make sudden turns at excessive speed, follow too closely to other boats, motorboats, personal watercraft, or any other person or object in the water, or operate any boat, motorboat, or personal watercraft in such a way that it may endanger other boats, motorboats, or personal watercraft, life or property.

(3)

All motorboat operators shall sit within the confines of the boat and shall require that their passengers do likewise. Bowriding and gunwale riding are strictly prohibited.

(4)

Care shall be taken by the operators of all motorboats and personal watercraft to prevent damage from their wash, bow wave or stern wave, or from objects towed by such motorboats and personal watercraft to other boats, motorboats, personal watercraft, docks, piers, shorelines and boathouses.

(5)

All boats, motorboats, or personal watercraft towing water skiers, aquaplanes, or other devices shall operate in a counterclockwise direction of the waterway whenever possible.

(Ord. of 11-16-1992, Doc. #26143; Ord. of 10-9-1995, Doc. #28846)