Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:36:42 -0400, Jeff wrote:

On the other hand, foreign flagging must be an open invitation to the
CG to "Board Me!"

Not really, they are used to seeing it on larger yachts, and those
boats do not cut corners with safety equipment or other regulatory
issues.


Earlier in the summer I was moored in a quiet cove in Salem Bay (MA)
when a CG boat did a "routine safety inspection" of 45 foot powerboat
at 10PM. Lights flashing, bumping into other boats in the anchorage -
it was really rather surreal. The next morning I asked one of the
local boats that was near the action what was going on, and he said
that every new power boat that is "drug running capable" gets boarded
until the local CG gets to know them.

And another friend with a large powerboat that happens to have a
southern city as the hailing port gets boarded, even though he's a
assistant harbormaster and the head of a local SWAT Team and sniper
group.

Somehow, I don't think the CG would look at a foreign flagged boat and
say, "Oh, they're Algerian - they must be cool!"