brian, that information was posted -- by me -- three days ago. notice also
that US flagged vessels must be "under the command of" a US citizen (the box of
rocks stupid jeffie's singular exception for recreational vessels put in
charter service).

but thanks anyway. please, in the future, keep up with the discusssions, or
don't post at all.

"BrianH"
Date: 10/2/2004 10:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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A simple Google search brought up plenty of offers to register AND document
a foreign person's yacht in the USA. Seems that a company is formed (LLC,
which presumably a foreigner can own) which is administered in the US and
the yacht is leased to the owner who operates it as a US flagged ship. I
cannot believe that al these arrangements by US companies would exist to
encourage other nationals to break US law. See:
http://www.corpco.com/lc_yachts.html#yacht
Note the clauses headed "Delaware Registration" and "U.S. Coastguard
Documentation".

Best,

BrianH


Jeff Morris wrote:
You made two claims, jaxie. One that it is illegal for a non-citizen
to document a boat in the US. On this I completely agree.

You also claimed, as you have several times in the past, that
non-citizens cannot be in command of a US documented vessels. As
I've shown several times, this is completely false - it does not
apply to vessels with only a "recreational" endorsement.