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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

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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
CS27









Jared Crane

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Does the CG avoid sailboats?


yes, according to a coastie. said the coasties don't like climbing up on
sailboats -- it is a drag -- and usually everything is okay to boot.

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Does the CG avoid sailboats?


yes, according to a coastie. said the coasties don't like climbing up on
sailboats -- it is a drag -- and usually everything is okay to boot.

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In article ,
pamsuks says...

(Snip)

As far as why you were boarded? probably cause it is early in season, and the
coasties do have to show that they have been out doing thier job. One of the
reasons i got out of the CG was i really didn't like the law enforcement
aspect
of the mission. and I suspect that since 9-11 that aspect has definitely been
emphasized.

Interesting. We visited the Eaton's Point light and CG station last year and
more than one young Coastie told us he was in the service to help people, not
for law enforcement.

We were also boarded in early spring last year as we were motoring up Flushing
Bay after leavinbg the slip. The Coasties had come in to fuel at the fuel dock
and on their way back out boarded us. Clearly, they had nothing better to do
and we were the only boat out there that day. We got a clean sheet. Indeed, I
had to prod him to look at some things, like our pyrotechnics. I am proud that
everything on the boat is as it should be and didn't want him to overlook
anything. But it seems that west of Execution Rock on Long Island Sound
pyrotechnicas are not required and he did not bneed to examine them for their
expiration dates.

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In article ,
pamsuks says...

(Snip)

As far as why you were boarded? probably cause it is early in season, and the
coasties do have to show that they have been out doing thier job. One of the
reasons i got out of the CG was i really didn't like the law enforcement
aspect
of the mission. and I suspect that since 9-11 that aspect has definitely been
emphasized.

Interesting. We visited the Eaton's Point light and CG station last year and
more than one young Coastie told us he was in the service to help people, not
for law enforcement.

We were also boarded in early spring last year as we were motoring up Flushing
Bay after leavinbg the slip. The Coasties had come in to fuel at the fuel dock
and on their way back out boarded us. Clearly, they had nothing better to do
and we were the only boat out there that day. We got a clean sheet. Indeed, I
had to prod him to look at some things, like our pyrotechnics. I am proud that
everything on the boat is as it should be and didn't want him to overlook
anything. But it seems that west of Execution Rock on Long Island Sound
pyrotechnicas are not required and he did not bneed to examine them for their
expiration dates.

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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:49:30 +0000, Larry W4CSC wrote:

(Capt Lou) wrote in
:

If the Coast Guard continues to board vessels with the latest CGAUX safe
boating decals displayed, why bother getting a decal? How many times a month
does a boat need to be boarded and inspected? Besides, the 2004 USCGAUX decal
has an isnurance company's name printed on it. I am cutting it off of mine.


You should own a jetboat in Charleston, Capt Lou. There are several police
bureaucracies all looking for targets:
City of Charleston
County of Charleston
USCG
Dept of Natural Resources dressed up like SWAT teams in camo'd boats you can't
see in the dark trying to kill themselves and the person who ran over them.
They think Wappoo Cut is in the Mekong Delta and are playing GI Joe.


Wow - am I ever glad I live in Canada! I've NEVER been stopped or boarded: not
in 40 years of boating on everything from runabouts to skiffs to dinghies to
36-ft sailboats.

(I've also never been asked for my fishing license. Go figure...)

Lloyd
"Far Cove" Catalina 36