| Title: | SAILING |
| Notice: | Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference |
| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
| Total number of notes: | 20724 |
Mods.. if there is an existing note please move.. couln't find one.
In planning retirement I am considering buying a boat and chartering
cruises.. and have been limiting my view to U.S. built boats because of
the Jones Act which (tom my understanding) limits captained chartering to
American made boats.
This winter I charterd out of FL on a German made 52' Yawl... How? I
asked the captain.
It seems that he worked with the coast guard to get it right...
He set up two corporations.. Charter Corp and Crew Corp (not real)
The terms of sailing are that you charter a "bare" baot from charter
corp... but you must have an approved crew from the charter corp. The
approvved crew may be selected form anyone in the Crew Corp. listing.
The Crew Corp lists the captain and his wife only.
With a loophole this big.. why do we need the Jones Act?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2119.1 | Feds will never find you | WRKSYS::SCHUMANN | Dot your t's and cross your i's | Tue Mar 15 1994 10:21 | 11 |
The Jones act is rarely enforced for small craft, because it's virtually impossible for the government to find out that it's being violated. There's no "victim" to complain. If the government goes after the operation you described, they'd almost certainly win their case, despite the sham corporations. Even if they don't win, they can exhaust the operator's financial resources through multiple appeals. If you want to retire and do charters, you'd be better off to do it in the Carribean, where there are more customers and fewer laws :-). --RS | |||||