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    <title>What Do I Need to Do to Offer Charter Cruises on My Sailboat?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new charter business will need to address a long list of issues -- ranging from city permits and marina restrictions to passenger parking, liquor licenses and 100 other details. But the important legal issues can probably be divided into three cate ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:43:10 GMT</pubDate>    
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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>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:29:15 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 16:05:43 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 12:55:07 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 17:07:26 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>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:21:36 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 16:38:55 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 14:10:50 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>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:32:32 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, 25 Jan 2012 13:59:30 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;rdquo; ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:08:19 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>What Do Boat Buyers Need to Know About a Coast Guard Abstract of Title?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Coast Guard Abstract of Title is a record of all of the documents submitted to the Coast Guard for a particular boat and accepted for recording by the Coast Guard. An abstract is available for all Coast Guard-documented vessels, either through a ve ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:27:42 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 -- but the bareboat structure is not a good fit for the type of passenger charter service referenced by our reader.

A bare ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:15:01 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>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:22:02 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>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:33:18 GMT</pubDate>    
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