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Old 12-12-2012, 04:45 AM   #1
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Bad weather must keep you awake sitting by the radio waiting for them to call, kinda of like waiting for the lottery to announce your ticket is the winning ticket. I suppose if it is an older low value vessel say a 28 foot wooden cabin cruiser you would say I ain't going out in this weather. Must succk when you find the boat stranded looks worthless. The laws need to be changed. It's a goood thing tow companies with auto's can't claim salvage because the vehicle broke down in a blizzard, plenty of tow truck drivers get killed doing their job. Haven't heard about any towboat crews getting killed doing their job. It is taking advantage because of how the laws are written in my eye's..
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Old 12-12-2012, 08:32 AM   #2
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I think it is safe to say that the Admiralty Laws that the small coastal tow companies reference to make a salvage claims were really made for the shipping industry. I am talking ocean going salvage tugs that will put a line on a 90,000 ton DIW supertanker with 60 million dollars of crude aboard after getting approval from an insurance company.

To use the same laws to salvage a 100K sport fishing boat DIW drifting toward the rocks is wrong but legal.

These companys provide a service and it is proper to charge more than the membership fee for instances of "peril"....what that amount is.????

Read "Grey Seas Under" by Farley Mowat.....and old book about an ocean going salvage tug called Foundation Franklin.

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