The registration is legal, I'm not so sure about the documentation. The US Code
goes on a great length describing illegal versions of foreign owned or
controlled fishing vessels. However, the rules might be relaxed for
recreational vessels. I note that the link you cite is a bit vague on the
documentation issue.



"BrianH" wrote in message ...
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.