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want2fish · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:14 pm Post subject: Coast Guard needs your help

Coast Guard is try to find the owners of Floating Cabin FC139. There are 4 people stuck on the cabin somewhere around Baffin. There boat blew away in the storm yesterday. They need to know where the cabin is located.
You can contact the Coast Guard @361.939.6349
Captain Justin 361.500.3559

TailStalker · Horse Mullet Joined: 11 May 2014 Posts: 131

TPWD should be able to give the location, floaters are registered through them, and the location has to be given/documented.

want2fish · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:12 pm Post subject:

BayFly · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:24 pm Post subject:

Interesting! That is contrary to everything I have ever been told. I have always thought an owner had to apply to the authorities to even move one? However, I have never applied for a floating cabin permit or been interested in owning one.
If TP&WL does not keep up with locations why can't anyone just float a cabin anywhere? BTW, there is one by the Warden's ramp off Laguna Shores I have thought was an illegal cabin, but maybe not?

TailStalker · Horse Mullet Joined: 11 May 2014 Posts: 131

That's odd. I would bet they didn't talk to someone familiar with floaters. I know that what TPWD does is tells you to set a post, give them the coordinates of where the post is, and they will give the thumbs up if its ok to have you floater there. When it first started, you could list 2 GPS locations on your permit, but they have reduced it to 1 now.

BayFly, I think (and I may be wrong) that the cabin at the GW ramp was one that had broken free and drifted up high on the east side of the meadows. A few were retrieved from up there this summer when the tides cranked up, and I think that one was one. As long as you notify the TPWD, they will let you bring them into shore and work on/repair them.( It's actually fairly common, there is/was one at the fish house of shore for the same reason, and was another at one of the stands on Packery a while back.

wildlifeman · Finger Mullet Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Posts: 14

Field GW's don't have the GPS on cabins. That's the TPWD permits office and GLO. You have to call Austin HQ to get them, and it was a holiday so good luck. Probably why the GW said they don't have them.