I've got to disagree on this one. You're looking for honest responses, and what's an internet forum without some healthy debate anyway??
If they close down Gull, the party will move to Muscamoot. There's already a smaller and better version of it there every weekend. I really wouldn't want to see a petition or anything bringing more attention to Muscamoot, because any attention will eventually turn into negative publicity and be exploited by the media and groups like the Prevention Coalition(whoever they are..) I think Muscamoot is a far more valuable boating asset than Gull Is. so I'd prefer the controversy stay there. Gull access is already on the edge of being taken away, why put the better party spot in jeopardy?
Face it, the Zman is the key here?? Hmm... Now as I recall, the Zman was one of the keys for the negative tone of the channel 4 story last year. Without the underage girl, the guy getting high, and the Zman, they wouldn't have had a negative story. He's a big part of negative publicity that Muscamoot got last year. I've said it here before, but Muscamoot is a place where a rockin party raft and families have coexisted for years. You could always anchor out from the raft and walk over to socialize without exposing your kids to it. Last year you couldn't do that because the act was louder away from the party than in the raft and you couldn't get within walking distance without having to make up an answer to "What does "The Zman licks it before he sticks it" mean?" Rock the party raft all night long, but you don't have to rock the entire bay and Harsens too. Just ask anyone who lives there how much they appreciate hearing it all day and all night long. A lot of people seem to think that he invented the party raft. There has been a party raft in the bay as long as I've been going there since the mid 90's and I know it was going on way before that. He just parks in the middle early where it would form anyway, set up the system, and claims it. If he took a Sunday and set up at Gull, there would still be a big raft at Muscamoot. I seem to recall last year when the party raft formed away from his raft and they eventually moved their boats to the main raft. I also recall the 4th of July, when everyone flocked to DJ Lou's set up in the same raft and the zman's end of the raft was kind of deserted. When given a choice...
Ok, my suggestions for the Zman - try aiming the speakers slightly down a bit and entertain the raft. That's who wants to hear it, not the people who anchor away from it. If you still think you have to broadcast to the entire bay, maybe clean it up a bit. You could post your preferences on a sign on your boat, so that people will still know but you don't have to drive everyone who doesn't want to hear it out of the bay. A sign that says "Zman licks it before he sticks it" and "a$$ up, face down, that's the way the Zman likes it" would make it clear to those in the raft, and anyone who wasn't out there last year and heard it several hundred times. I'm all for getting girls to pop their tops, but when you announce stuff like that to the entire bay, it's just going to get people to complain who don't need to know what's going on in there. As was said by many in another thread, more music, less talking. If youre going to rock the bay all night long, just friggin do it man. You don't have to tell us youre doing it every 5 minutes. Ok, that's the end of my rant...
