From Now On, You Can Get Fined for Boating Too Slowly
Boats & Docks
Now You Get Fined for Driving Too Slowly
This summer, dawdling on the water might cost you
Starting this season, anyone puttering too slowly around the fjord could be waved in by the police boat patrol. Their mission? To crack down on slowpokes and keep boat traffic flowing.
The annual summer operation is underway, and this year the focus is clear: if you’re not moving fast enough, you’re in the way.
“As soon as you start going slow, you’re likely to annoy someone,” says chief Investigator Missed Call to Sponvikaposten. “The goal is to get rid of the leisure cruisers so boat traffic can run more efficiently.”
“Why?” we ask, thinking fondly of our own little dinghy with its 3-horsepower engine.
“You’ve got people doing 50 knots through narrow straits with zero boating experience,” Missed Call says seriously. “Then suddenly there’s a bathtub-on-water crawling along with no awareness whatsoever. That’s how dangerous situations happen. So we’ve scrapped the old 5-knot limit and introduced a minimum speed of 20 knots across the entire fjord.”
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