Are they Dutch? What's to stop them from going somewhere else and setting out from there?
-----Original Message----- >From: Ron Rogers <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 29, 2009 9:32 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Liveaboard] too young or not and who is to say > >Robin's parents were right by his side helping him get the boat ready - just >like the young man who just completed a circumnavigation. > > > >For better or worse, it was a Dutch court enforcing Dutch law. The EU has >certification programs for skippers for inland, coastal, and ocean travel. >We might not like it, but those are their laws. As Bob Austin has pointed >out on several lists, our country and others have a provision in the law >covering a "Manifestly Unsafe Voyage." Our Coast Guard rarely invokes this >law, but they have done it. If a local paper covers your departure in a >rowboat for Patagonia, you should probably look over your shoulder for a >cutter bearing down on you. Otherwise, we are about as unregulated as you >can get. As Arild has pointed-out, Canada now has a strict licensing >requirement for Canadian skippers. > > > >Ron Rogers > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
