When i go to Rhode Island fishing and i fish from the breachways, whenever i see a boat either comming or going, I always reel my line in, mainly because i dont want the line to get tangled on the prop and cut it, and if i lose my hook or whatever i am using because of it getting tangled in the prop, I can only blame it on one person and that person is me, I usually wait until they are either inside or outside the breachway out of my casting distance, then i cast again.

I would never ever cast my line near a moving boat, for a couple of reasons, The main reason is it is very dangerous because as Joe Mc puts it, you could hit someone in the boat, And if you hit the driver of the boat that could cause a accident, The boat could hit the rocks or hit another boat head on and possibly have someone on either boat or boat boats die.

And the 2ND reason is, As far as i am concerned the boats have the right of way.