Yacht Products International
If making people buy commercial products is unconstitutional why do I?
have to buy holding tanks, life jackets, and flares before I take my sailing yacht out of the slip. The coast guard can even stop me in International waters and give me a ticket anywhere in the world because I am American flagged.
It doesn't even matter if I register in a State instead of getting Coast guard documents.
All regulated under the commerce clause even though mine is a private vessel.
You do not have to buy a car or a house. But houses catch on fire, and cars crash and you need medical help when they do. That is weak.
Down here in the keys many people live on islands with no roads to them and on boats themselves. Just because you say I don't have to buy one does not make it so.
I don't believe that it be mandatory that you have to buy those either. I wouldn't leave port without them, regardless of what the government told me, but it shouldn't be mandatory. At some point people have to be responsible and figure out on their own what they need. If you feel safe out on the ocean without life jackets, and are willing to take the risk, who am I to tell you that you can't.
Filed under Yachting by on Mar 15th, 2010. 
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