I know of one instance where a man had four very long tows in the first
two months of his contract. They cancelled him. I understand why.



I have heard one or two completely unsubstantiated stories about
people who have been refused for contract renewals due to what the
company considered "abuse" of the service. In other words, idiots who
needed towing or other assistance on a regular basis due to their own
incompetence. Are you expecting to find people who were turned down
for absolutely no reason? I've never heard of that, and I can't
imagine why it would happen.

CWM

A Towboat/US associate mentioned refusal to renew contracts, so I can
slightly substantiate the rumor, but I forget the specifics of the
story. I believe he was talking about the other towing outfit in our
area, though.

This is probably a very dumb question but ::::

Is it required that one own a boat to sign up for the Tow Boat USA
insurance?

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wrote in message
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I know of one instance where a man had four very long tows in the first
two months of his contract. They cancelled him. I understand why.



I have heard one or two completely unsubstantiated stories about
people who have been refused for contract renewals due to what the
company considered "abuse" of the service. In other words, idiots who
needed towing or other assistance on a regular basis due to their own
incompetence. Are you expecting to find people who were turned down
for absolutely no reason? I've never heard of that, and I can't
imagine why it would happen.

CWM

A Towboat/US associate mentioned refusal to renew contracts, so I can
slightly substantiate the rumor, but I forget the specifics of the
story. I believe he was talking about the other towing outfit in our
area, though.

* NE Sailboat wrote, On 2/27/2007 6:55 PM:
This is probably a very dumb question but ::::

Is it required that one own a boat to sign up for the Tow Boat USA
insurance?

It isn't "insurance," its a service. You don't need to own a boat to
use it because it applies to boats you own, borrow, or charter.

http://www.boatus.com/towing/guide/agreetowboat.asp

In article Zx3Fh.30408$kr6.29541@trndny09,
"NE Sailboat" wrote:

This is probably a very dumb question but ::::

Is it required that one own a boat to sign up for the Tow Boat USA
insurance?

it's actually not a dumb question.

If you charter or go out with friends regularly, you might want to join
BOAT/U.S. to get the towing service. I probably wouldn't, but it (like
any sort of insurance/shared cost agreement) might make you feel better.

--
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Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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In article ,
Jere Lull wrote:
In article Zx3Fh.30408$kr6.29541@trndny09,
"NE Sailboat" wrote:

This is probably a very dumb question but ::::

Is it required that one own a boat to sign up for the Tow Boat USA
insurance?

it's actually not a dumb question.

If you charter or go out with friends regularly, you might want to join
BOAT/U.S. to get the towing service. I probably wouldn't, but it (like
any sort of insurance/shared cost agreement) might make you feel better.

The charter companies out here, and I would suspect elsewhere, have
this coverage. Even the non-profit I'm involved with has it. We ask
the skipper to pay the cost when it happens, then we reimburse.

--
Capt. JG @@
www.sailnow.com

wrote in :

A Towboat/US associate mentioned refusal to renew contracts, so I can
slightly substantiate the rumor, but I forget the specifics of the
story. I believe he was talking about the other towing outfit in our
area, though.




Yo! Skip! Has Towboat/US sent you the letter yet?.......(c;



Larry
--
I have a new strategy to protect the Mexican border. From the border
to inside the USA, 1 mile, we turn it into our OPEN PIT nuclear
waste dump, turning it into a no-mans-land for tens of thousands
of years. Anyone attempting to cross will simply be eaten alive
by neutrons! Problem solved!

Hey Larry ,, looks like we are going into recession. The market went down
bigtime today.

Question for the assholes in Washington: what happens to all the illegals
if the economy tanks? Who is going to take care of these people?

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"Larry" wrote in message
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wrote in :

A Towboat/US associate mentioned refusal to renew contracts, so I can
slightly substantiate the rumor, but I forget the specifics of the
story. I believe he was talking about the other towing outfit in our
area, though.




Yo! Skip! Has Towboat/US sent you the letter yet?.......(c;



Larry
--
I have a new strategy to protect the Mexican border. From the border
to inside the USA, 1 mile, we turn it into our OPEN PIT nuclear
waste dump, turning it into a no-mans-land for tens of thousands
of years. Anyone attempting to cross will simply be eaten alive
by neutrons! Problem solved!

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:CW6Fh.2039$RN6.216@trndny07...
Hey Larry ,, looks like we are going into recession. The market went down
bigtime today.

Question for the assholes in Washington: what happens to all the illegals
if the economy tanks? Who is going to take care of these people?


Yeah, the Dow took a dump because of massive selling in...China. Scary, huh?
Think of what they could do if they REALLY wanted to screw with us.

CLK .. or .. KLC...

When there is less money in China, there will be less money in China buying
our debt.

So .. when we offer bonds and there isn't a buyer ?? The bond payoff,
interest must be raises to get the buyer interested.

What did I learn in business school .. when stocks go down, bonds go up.
The problem? A bond is debt, an IOU.

The way I figure; this is just the beginning. The USA has been spending
money like a crazy drunk for years. That is money that the Federal Govt.
does not have. The money came from selling debt. The bonds. To who? The
Chinese.

Let's see; we have the war in Iraq .. billions of dollars wasted on heathen
barbarians. Then there is Afganistan. Would be much cheaper to just drop a
couple of nukes, the whole place would be unliveable. End of that problem.

We are letting our country be overrun by Mexicans and other third world
illegal tresspassers who are coming here and driving down wages.

Taxes eat up more than half what we earn. Take the Federal tax, the state
taxes, the fees [ can't even park and go for a hike in the White mtn's
anymore without a fee ].

Home Land security. Billions of dollars for people who do nothing.

And it is all based on the Chinese buying debt. And yesterday the Chinese
stock market tanked.


HELLO?

The revolution is coming ... sure as ****.

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"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
et...

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:CW6Fh.2039$RN6.216@trndny07...
Hey Larry ,, looks like we are going into recession. The market went
down bigtime today.

Question for the assholes in Washington: what happens to all the
illegals if the economy tanks? Who is going to take care of these
people?


Yeah, the Dow took a dump because of massive selling in...China. Scary,
huh? Think of what they could do if they REALLY wanted to screw with us.

"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:UYdFh.11247$tA1.5683@trndny02:

The way I figure; this is just the beginning. The USA has been
spending money like a crazy drunk for years. That is money that the
Federal Govt. does not have. The money came from selling debt. The
bonds. To who? The Chinese.



I sent an email to the Treasury Department's National Debt bureaucrats
and asked them where their extensive webpages listed the debt owed to the
Federal Reserve Bank Corporation, a secretly-owned private bank not a
government entity as most Americans think.

Their response was very terse. "That would be listed as publically-
funded debt.", they said. So, we can't REALLY tell how much of the
government debt is owed to the Illuminati bankers of the Federal Reserve
Corporation and compare it to what is owned by other entities, like the
secretly-owned, private bank called "The Bank of England", for instance.

China stores its money with the world bankers, just like everyone else.
Those bankers are the ones we borrow money from to fund our insatiable
appetite for military hardware and other nonsense. The politicians and
bureaucrats, controlled by those bankers, create this immense demand that
has driven the value of the bankers' own money into the gutter.

Bankers with names that end in names like "Rothchild".......

Larry