GL: Coast Guard / vessel name and home port on dinghy bottom

[Charles and Pat Culotta]

 Covering the transom with a dinghy is not permitted unless the
> name and hailing port is displayed elsewhere and putting it on the
> bottom of the dinghy does not fulfill the requirement either.  The
> penalty is $100 to $500 per day incorrect marking is displayed.  The
> Coast Guard (Homeland Security) is now enforcing these regulations.


Gosh,  I hate to keep bringing up**experience** but we were boarded by the 
Coast Guard (Homeland Security) on the Champlain Canal this yr and 
thoroughly checked.( My first time ever being boarded by the CG on my boat.)
Anyway, I had the dinghy covering the transom and the vessel name and 
hailing port, the name and hailing port is also painted on the dinghy 
bottom. Nary a word was said about that. Important to this discussion, a 
senior Coastie was training a new man. I presume he was training him 
correctly!!!!!!

As always YMMV.

CCC

Lying Geneva, NY in the Finger Lakes ( Barretts Marine) getting ready to 
store for the winter.


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