33 C.F.R. § 100.504 Night in Venice, Great Egg Harbor Bay, City of Ocean City, NJ.
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
(a) Regulated area. The waters of Great Egg Harbor Bay and Beach Thorofare from Intracoastal Waterway Light 275 (LLNR 36045) northward along the entire width of the Intracoastal Waterway to the 9th Street Bridge, thence northeastward along the Ocean City Waterfront to the Long Port-Ocean City Bridge, thence northward along the Long Port-Ocean City Bridge to the northern shore, thence westward to Ships Channel Buoy 6 (LLNR 1350), thence southward to Intracoastal Waterway Light 252 (LLNR 35980), thence southwestward to the 9th Street Bridge. (b) Effective period. This regulation will be effective from 4:30 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. annually on the fourth Saturday in July unless otherwise specified in the Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners and a (c) Special local regulations. (1) All persons or vessels not registered with sponsor as participants or not part of the regatta patrol are considered spectators. (2) No person or vessel may enter or remain in the regulated area unless participating in the event, or authorized to be there by the sponsor or Coast Guard patrol personnel. (3) Spectator vessels must be at anchor within a designated spectator area or moored to a waterfront facility within the regulated area prior to the start of the parade in such a way that they shall not interfere with mariners transiting Great Egg Harbor Bay. The spectator fleet shall be held behind buoys or committee boats provided by the sponsor in the following areas: (i) Northwestward of a line marked by a patrol vessel in position 39 degrees 17 minutes 45 seconds North latitude; 074 degrees 33 minutes 45 seconds West longitude to the 9th Street Route 52 Bridge in Ocean City, New Jersey, including Great Egg Waterway Red Buoy No. 2, but shall not extend northwestward of the Great Egg Waterway Point Buoy. (ii) Westward of a line of buoys between Great Egg Waterway Buoys 10 and 14. (iii) Within the area around the shoals and islands in Beach Thorofare between Great Egg Waterway Buoys 15 and 21. This area shall at no point be closer that 150 yards from the line of bulkheads and lagoon entrances in Ocean City, New Jersey. (4) All persons and vessels shall comply with the instructions of U.S. Coast Guard patrol personnel. Upon hearing five or more blasts from a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the operator of a vessel shall stop immediately and proceed as directed. U.S. Coast Guard patrol personnel include commissioned, warrant and petty officers of the Coast Guard. Members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary may be present to inform vessel operators of this regulation and other applicable laws. [CGD3 85–08, 50 FR 29222, July 18, 1985. Redesignated and amended by CGD 87–008b, 52 FR 25219, July 6, 1987; CGD 96–052, 62 FR 16702, Apr. 8, 1997; CGD 05–99–016, 64 FR 55830, Oct. 15, 1999]
Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters
PART 100—SAFETY OF LIFE ON NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 100.504 Night in Venice, Great Egg Harbor Bay, City of Ocean City, NJ.
