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    <title>Can a DMV-Registered Canadian Vessel Be a Six-Pack Charter Boat?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Our reader has identified several elements of the law concerning the documentation of vessels, where a failure by the Coast Guard to enforce the law has evolved into a type of de facto loophole.

There are no statutes or regulations in California tha ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:35 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Can I Sue My Marine Surveyor for a Low Appraisal?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Whether a boat is repossessed or not has no bearing on the value of the boat. Repossessions and foreclosures do have a reputation for being sold below &#38;ldquo;true&#38;rdquo; market value, and this in turn does have some impact on the rest of the  ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:23 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Can My Marina Require Me to Pay for Pumpout Services I Don&#8217;t Use?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[In a word, no.

It&#38;rsquo;s impossible to answer a question like this with certainty, since we have not seen our reader&#38;rsquo;s slip rental agreement. But based on what he has shared with us, he has no claim against his marina.

Our reader, wi ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:02 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>What Can I Do About a Mechanic&#8217;s Frivolous Lawsuit?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[I have been writing this column for almost six years, and I can count the number of &#38;ldquo;rants&#38;rdquo; that I have embarked on with one hand. My response to this question, unfortunately, is a rant.

Our reader has run head-on into one of the ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:31 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Will Supreme Court Decision Affect the Rights of Marina Tenants?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of &#38;ldquo;Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach,&#38;rdquo; which was appealed from a decision by the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case concerns the eviction of a two-story houseboat from a c ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:32 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Why Seek a &#8216;Federal Vessel Arrest&#8217; Instead of a State Court Judgment?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[The short answer is that, since our reader already has a judgment against the vessel owner, he can pursue him using the collection tools available through a state court to go after any of the debtor&#38;rsquo;s assets, including the boat. The judgmen ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:33 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>What Happens When a Seller Backs Out of a Boat Sale After a Grounding?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[The case described by our reader is interesting because it is the reverse of what we often see when a boat is damaged during the course of a purchase. We are more often faced in those cases with a buyer who wants to back out of the deal and a seller  ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:23 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Can My Coast Guard-Documented Boat Be Seized by a County Sheriff?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Our reader is misinformed on a number of levels, and his only option at this point is probably to pay the full amount of the claim to the mechanic.

Our reader&#38;rsquo;s first oversight was his failure to defend the claim in small claims court.&#16 ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:59:17 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Can a Home-Built Boat Be Documented with the Coast Guard?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[The purchase of an unfinished boat that has never been registered is similar to the purchase of any other type of unregistered personal property. If you buy a refrigerator at a garage sale, you don&#38;rsquo;t really know whether the person selling t ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:54:59 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Is It True That I Can&#8217;t Sue the Coast Guard?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Yes and no. Our reader probably won&#38;rsquo;t be able to pursue the Coast Guard in his lawsuit, but not for the reason cited by his attorney.

Our reader&#38;rsquo;s attorney is referring to the doctrine of &#38;ldquo;sovereign immunity,&#38;rdqu ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:52:43 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Do Bareboat Charters Avoid Foreign-Built Passenger Boat Prohibitions?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[A bareboat charter does, indeed, free the operation from the foreign-build restrictions that burden most chartering operations &#38;mdash; but the bareboat structure is not a good fit for the type of passenger charter service referenced by our reader ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:44 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Why Was a Waiver of the Jones Act Needed for U.S. America&#8217;s Cup Races?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed the &#38;ldquo;America&#38;rsquo;s Cup Act of 2011.&#38;rdquo; It was introduced in the House (as H.R. 3270) by Rep. Brian Bilbray of California&#38;rsquo;s 50th Congressional Distric ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:04 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Do I Have to Pay Possessory Interest Tax on a Slip I No Longer Occupy?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Our reader is referring to the annual Possessory Interest Tax paid by marina tenants to the county in which a publicly owned marina is located. When a person or entity leases, rents or uses real estate owned by a government agency, that person or ent ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:33:19 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>My Yacht Broker Hasn&#39;t Sold My Boat Yet - Can I Work With Another Broker?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[We need to start this discussion by noting that it is impossible to advise our reader of his legal options without looking at the&#160;listing agreement that he signed with his current broker. We can,however, review the structure of a typical yacht b ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:26:46 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>What Happens to Boaters Who Shoot Off Flares During Fireworks Shows?</title>

  
  
  
  
  
  

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    <description><![CDATA[Our reader is correct. The Coast Guard receives more than 600 false distress calls each year, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in wasted resources. Many of these events are prank calls made by VHF radio &#38;mdash; but each year, 20 to 30 percen ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:41:48 GMT</pubDate>    
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