[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR100.103]

[Page 249-250]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 100--SAFETY OF LIFE ON NAVIGABLE WATERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 100.103  National Sweepstakes Regatta, Redbank, NJ.

    (a) Regulated area. That portion of the Navesink River in Redbank, 
N.J. between the N.J. Route 35 Bridge and a line running across the 
Navesink River connecting Guyon and Lewis Points.
    (b) Effective period. This section is in effect from 8 a.m. to 6 
p.m. on July 20 and 21, 1996, and each year thereafter on dates and 
times specified in a Federal Register notice.
    (c) Special local regulations. (1) The regulated area shall be 
intermittently closed to all vessel traffic during the effective period, 
except as may be allowed by the Coast Guard Patrol Commander.
    (2) No person or vessel shall enter or remain in the regulated area 
while it is closed unless participating in or authorized by the event 
sponsor or Coast Guard patrol personnel.
    (3) Vessels awaiting passage through the regulated area shall be 
held in unmarked anchorages in the area to the east of the N.J. Route 35 
Bridge and in the vicinity of Lewis Point.
    (4) No transiting vessels shall be allowed out onto or across the 
regulated area without Coast Guard escort.
    (5) All persons or vessles not registered with the sponsor as 
participants or not part of the regatta patrol are considered 
spectators. Spectator vessels must be at anchor within a designated 
spectator area or moored to a waterfront facility in a way that will not 
interfere with the progress of the event. The following are established 
as spectator areas:
    (i) Spectator vessels shall be held behind (north of ) a line of 
buoys provided by the sponsor running approximately west to east 
starting .25 mile east of the N.J. Route 35 Bridge.
    (ii) A second spectator area shall be marked by a curved line of 
sponsor provided buoys centered on a line drawn approximately due south 
from Jones Point, running through Can Buoy 21. All spectator craft 
shall stay to the east of this string of buoys.
    (6) 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

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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 85-31, 50 FR 30702, July 29, 1985. Redesignated and amended by CGD 
87-008b, 52 FR 25219, July 6, 1987; CGDO1-96-016, 61 FR 26105, May 24, 
1996; CGD 96-052, 62 FR 16702, Apr. 8, 1997]