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[boxhitch]

but does not include a boat powered manually nor a boat with an outboard motor provided the motor is tilted or otherwise disengaged so as not to be ready for immediate use.


Is it right to consider the tether cord/kill switch as an ignition switch on an outboard motor
Tilting an outboard involves lots of motion and can drastically alter the drift characteristics of a boat
Pulling the kill cord stops (disengages) the motor, similar to turning the ignition switch to 'off' and pulling the key in a jet or i/o boat

[Ron.C]

Is it right to consider the tether cord/kill switch as an ignition switch on an outboard motor
Tilting an outboard involves lots of motion and can drastically alter the drift characteristics of a boat
Pulling the kill cord stops (disengages) the motor, similar to turning the ignition switch to 'off' and pulling the key in a jet or i/o boat

Good question, is removing the safety tether cord considered "disengaged so as not to be ready for immediate use"?

My personal interpretation is yes.

But I would be clarifying with a CO or policy analyst as to what constitutes "disengaged and not ready for immediate use"

[Ourea]

Common sense statement -

There are thousands of waterfowl hunters out there that shoot from a boat by their decoys.
Many get there under power.

[Arctic Lake]

Ron I think the recent Provincial law concerning shooting from a boat was geared towards gang violence and gang crime and was not geared to hunting . I think ?
Arctic Lake

Graham,

I recommend you contact the CO service if you don't want opinions. If you send them an email, you will get a response from either a CO or a policy analyst. I'd take and retain copies of the repsonses and take it as gospel. You can also google the wildlife act and get more definitions, article #'s to reference. Responses like mine are my personal interpretation of the regulations as I read them ( my opinion ). Take it for what it is.

I can't see anywhere in the regs where it says you can't hunt from a boat. It does however say you can't hunt from a powered boat.

Power Boat - means a boat, canoe or yacht powered by electric, gasoline, oil, steam or other mechanical means, but does not include a boat powered manually nor a boat with an outboard motor provided the motor is tilted or otherwise disengaged so as not to be ready for immediate use.

(So a rowboat, aluminium, canoe, kayak, drift boat, raft basically any boat without an engine gas electric or other is not a power boat. Nor is any boat with an outboard if it meets the definition above.)

It's Unlawful to:

20. To shoot wildlife from a motor vehicle or a boat propelled by a motor ( key word here is being propelled, and see definition of a power boat. This is the answer to your first question)

21. To hunt migratory birds from a powerboat, unless the boat is beached, resting at a launch or or fastened within or tied immediately along side a fixed hunting blind.

There was however a new BC firearms legislation tabled earlier this year that contradicts the wildlife act. But I will continue to follow the regulations as written in the wildlife act as they haven't been amended or changed.

[Pioneerman]

I was told many decades ago by a co that you can hunt from a boat as long as the motor was not in working position, so I was told to tilt it up , so not operable under power, and if seen through Binos which you can tell by looking no chances of being under power

[Ron.C]

Ron I think the recent Provincial law concerning shooting from a boat was geared towards gang violence and gang crime and was not geared to hunting . I think ?
Arctic Lake

Agree 100% but when this was discussed it doesn't clearly say that. The fact that the wildlife act hasn't been amended is all the justification I need.

At least the BC govt has found an effective way to deal with all those drive by canoe shootings.

[RJHunter]

25. To discharge, carry or have in possessiona firearm containing live ammunition inits breech or in its magazine attached tothe firearm, in or on a railway car, motorvehicle, sleigh, aircraft, bicycle or other conveyance.

I was thinking "or other conveyance" covered basically any mode of transportation.