Hailing port

justsomeguy · Jul 5, 2012

See what happens when you neglect to pay your property taxes, or fail to license your vehicle.

Blaise · Jul 6, 2012

When I documented Midnight Sun in 1979, just the city was required. My home port is Pensacola. I have never added the state and it has never been mentionioned in the MANY times I have been boarded. Maybe I have been lucky. Also in 1979 it only cost $70 to documnet a vessel.

rardiH36 · Jul 6, 2012

rblevens said:
Boarded by the Coat Guard?
You ever pull into another country? Problens?
rb

Yes, the Coast Guard does board boats. A few years ago on a midweek winter day when I was the only boat in the area, a zodiac style Coast Guard boat ... the type with the big machine gun mounted on the bow ... followed me back into the Sausalito channel. As I was securing my dock lines, they found a free end-tie to pull up to. Three of the crew came over and "requested" permission to come aboard for a safety and regulation compliance inspection. I got a nice print-out from their hand-held computer (from which they could read my boat's history and status) evidencing that I was in compliance.

justsomeguy · Jul 9, 2012

rardiH36 said:
Yes, the Coast Guard does board boats. A few years ago on a midweek winter day when I was the only boat in the area, a zodiac style Coast Guard boat ... the type with the big machine gun mounted on the bow ... followed me back into the Sausalito channel. As I was securing my dock lines, they found a free end-tie to pull up to. Three of the crew came over and "requested" permission to come aboard for a safety and regulation compliance inspection. I got a nice print-out from their hand-held computer (from which they could read my boat's history and status) evidencing that I was in compliance.

Were they respectful with the .50 caliber?

Sail123 · Jul 9, 2012

True or false:

Registering with the Feds rather than with the state gov, in war time, the Feds round up boats they think they might use (or do not want anyone else to use)

State licensed boats do not get inducted into war.

An insurance agent told me this.

justsomeguy · Jul 9, 2012

Sail123 said:
True or false:

Registering with the Feds rather than with the state gov, in war time, the Feds round up boats they think they might use (or do not want anyone else to use)

State licensed boats do not get inducted into war.

An insurance agent told me this.

False.

rardiH36 · Jul 10, 2012

justsomeguy said:
Were they respectful with the .50 caliber?

Just pointed in my general direction. What did miff me though was one of Coast Guard boarders, a rather solidly built bloke, aggressively levered himself on to my boat by grabbing the top of one of my stanchions. The thing deflected at least a couple of inches under the 200+ lb pull. Starring at it for a few seconds, I saw it was ok. So held my tongue. But I certainly would have protested and would have tried to file a claim had he bent/broke it. Even if it meant failing the inspection.