************************************************** *********BRIQN!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!********************** ***************,

a **registered** vessel is NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT a "documented"
vessel, and ****therefore**** a registered vessel is not a US-flagged vessel.
US-flagged vessels hold valid documentation. That is the definition of the
term US-flagged.

why can you get that through your head.

geesh, rational discussion is not possible with you guys because you are not
capable of understanding even basic terms. Do traffic lights often confuse
you?

"BrianH"
Date: 10/5/2004 2:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Jeff Morris wrote:
"BrianH" wrote in message
...
Geoffrey W. Schultz wrote:
Jeff,
Better yet, place him into your kill file.
. I am amazed how Jeff
can be as civil as he is with such gratuitous invective directed at
him.

We've learned to ignore that side of jaxie; he has Tourette's
Syndrome.

I had to look that one up ....
"Behavioral and Developmental - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
obsessions and compulsions, emotional lability, irritability, impulsivity,
aggressivity, and self-injurious behaviors; varied learning disabilities. "
Ah, well, okay - even so, it's not necessary to see such vitriolic rudeness
and blind refusal to accept another's point of view with wild, irrelevant
ramblings - ergo plonk.

I'm sorry I even contributed and perhaps encouraged the direction of
the thread.

Actually, this was interesting - One point that surprised me was that
the law allowing non-citizens to be in command was changed less than
10 years ago. Before that, for instance, it would not have been legal
for a Canadian to do a bare-boat charter on a documented vessel from
Hinckley.

To belabor a point, probably the Slovenes have registered but not documented
their craft and that is enough for the authorities in Ljubljana to accept -
perhaps not knowing of the subtle double procedure. How else could someone
have a US flagged ship for $100 (if my informant was honest about his
transaction)? That then begs the question of their true status when cruising
into other nations' waters.

The advertisement I cited was, as you mentioned, extremely vague about how
documentation for foreigners was accomplished. Perhaps it circumvented the
letter of the law but the spirit is clearly violated in some shady way and
they do not want to advertise it.

Best, BrianH.