Remove your Kayaks & Canoes

If you have a kayak, canoe, or other water vessel across from the town beach, you better go get it by October 15. As of September 23, there were fifty stored there.

What started with a few water vessels has gotten out of hand and we now need a way to limit the numbers of kayaks stored on town property near the beach. Over the past couple of years the town’s parks commission has attempted to deal with the kayak storage situation by providing racks. The racks alone seemed to attract numbers of kayaks that quickly made the site unmanageable, coupled with the recent phenomena of kayaks wintering over. Originally this was a duel-use site— personal watercraft, and temporary parking of fishermen’s boat trailers and trucks. The numbers of kayaks, etc., have limited the fishermen’s boat and trailor use, and created parking issues for beach goers. What to do? Starting this fall, all small craft will be removed from this area by October 15.

Any water vessels remaining after that date will be considered abandoned property and will be removed. Starting next year, any Monterey resident wanting to use the racks will have to obtain a sticker from town hall. The sticker will match a rack number for your kayak. Stickers will be valid from March 15 to October 15, for Monterey residents only. No vessels of any kind will be allowed to be stored on the ground. Information on the sticker program will be available on the town website (montereyma.gov) on the Parks Commission page, and through notices in the Monterey News . — Monterey Parks Commission and Kenn Basler, select board