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You are acting as an agent for the charity.
If money changes hands, either to you or to your "contract employer," somebody could make a case that you were acting in a professional capacity. It's at least a gray area. I'd think that to be free of potential problems there would need to be an arm's length relationship between you and the charity- and no particular connection to the amount your invited guests donated or even *whether* they donated to the charity. Maybe a situation where you call your friend at the charity, invite him/her for a boatride, and suggest they could bring along a half dozen friends of their own if they wanted to. If the charity then, and without your knowledge, dangles the invite in front of some potential donors that is not your problem....exactly. But somebody could still try to make it so. A lot of the recreational boaters running out to get their OUPV or 100-ton papers might do well to pause and consider that if anything happens on their boat that means they will be defending themselves in civil court, the complainant's attorney will make a big deal in front of the jury about how a "licensed captain" should have known better than to do whatever stupid thing caused the problem in the first place. Heck of a price to pay for the ego zing of being "Captain" so and so. If a boater doesn't earn his/her living running a boat, why mess with the headache of being licensed? The other thing that leaves a defendent additionally looking bad in front of a civil jury would be a thorough examination of the "sea service" claims made by the recreational boater to sit for the license in the first place. It's well known that a good many applicants lie, some of them a lot, and the CG has no reliable method of vetting sea service claims. "If Captain Zero lied about his sea service, why should we believe he's being truthful now?" |
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