r/maryland • u/MikeNoble91 Montgomery County • 5h ago

Drone hyperlapse of many boats on the Chesapeake Bay yesterday

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u/Aimless_Amoeba2447 4h ago

I was on one of them there boats

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u/mjt5689 Annapolis 3h ago

That's a really cool shot! Looks like a lot of people aren't slowing down where they should though. You're allowed to go full-speed through the main shipping channel in the middle of the Bay Bridge, but for every other part of that bridge and under every other bridge in Maryland, you're legally required to slow down to 7 MPH within 100 feet of it & while going under it to prevent excessive wakes that might knock other boats into the bridge structure or boats that are docked into their docks. Here's the speed limit map.

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u/Aimless_Amoeba2447 2h ago

You’re correct but nobody follows this, including dnr and police.

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u/mjt5689 Annapolis 1h ago

Yeah, it surely doesn't look like they do there. They definitely enforce it in the South River, DNR ticketed my uncle for speeding under the Route 2 bridge a couple years ago.

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u/Aimless_Amoeba2447 1h ago

Hmmm but that’s also 6 knot minimum wake zone with several markers. They’re at the bridge or just after I can’t remember.