Not to mention its a very BIG ocean and those rafts are very small. Don't
have a good radar picture either. Even in it's early days when the CG was the
US cutter revenue service, the coast guard has been boarding us citizens
vessels. The gov't has been at it since 1790....thats a lot of institutional
memory to have to overcome.

Law enforcement in the U.S. has become very heavy-handed, almost
bullying in its style and substance. CG stops and "inspects" U.S.
citizens' owned boats, but cannot find Cuban rafters on inner tubes at
coastline in FL.

When was the last time you saw a Cuban rafter on an inner tube carrying a
bomb? Sounds to me like they have their priorities straight.

Dave
S/V Good Fortune
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Jared Crane