On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:47:46 -0600, Tamaroak
wrote:

Let's say a licensed master decides to offer to donate a boat ride to a
charitable organization's service auction. This group gets the money
when someone pays for the ride, the buyer gets the boat ride, the
captain gets nothing but a warm fuzzy feeling for contributing to the
charity. This is clearly not a part of any business, and the captain is
not in this business anyway.

Has the captain received compensation for this according to USCG
regulations? Does this mean s/he needs chartering insurance, has to be
documented, etc. to do this annually?

Capt. Jeff

I would expect that if there is no valuable consideration to the
master, he is not chartered.
I know the situations are not identical, but in light aircraft, I and
many other private pilots have provided rides for boy scouts and other
youth organizations. One expects to be persued regardless, if one
commits some breach of reasonable care in the circumstance, all the
same.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK