GL: Avoid Unnessary Boardings

[Wade Ehlen]

--- "Dan & Peggy B." <dpbow@one-eleven.net> wrote:

> Those voluntary safety checks are a wonderful
idea...
> The reason enforcement officers will still stop you
> and conduct an inspection...

   Last year a group of us were on three small boats
near Cape Lookout NC, trying without much success to
catch fish.  A Coast Guard boat was anchored in the
cove.  Its orange inflatable motored around the area,
checking every boat there (about a dozen). 
   I didn't have a recent Power Squadron inspection
sticker, so I was boarded.  The Coasties were armed,
polite and efficient. And the blonde, she was very
attractive.
   All three boats passed inspection and were given
paperwork certifying same.  We were told we now had a
"free pass" for the next year: show it if we were
stopped again and any Coast Guard patrol would wave
good-bye.

Wade Ehlen
Albin 36 Miss Happ
New Bern, NC 



 
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