Fed requirement for USCG max capacity plate

[Fr. Frank]

If your Seafari is 20', it's NOT "under 20'-0" So the regulation does not apply to your boat...

Yes it does. The hull length on the 20' SeaCraft is 19'8", even though my LOA is 21'11" including anchor roller and propulsion machinery. The original sticker says 19'8", and you can still read that.

Personally, I think the idea of giving a guy on a boat identified as a 20 footer a ticket because his hull is 4 inches short is the epitome of nit-picking penny-ante bureaucratic masculine bovine excreta.

I also think he was upset because he expected to find drugs on my boat during their search and didn't, so he felt like he had to justify stopping me and searching for half an hour.

Let's face it, especially on a Monday, you don't often see small boats that far offshore around here. (Unless they're SeaCrafts ). I was stopped at 22 miles out, while on my way in from about 40 miles out, and the CG Cutter was at least a couple miles inshore of me. I was even headed across the motionless cutter's bow at all of 24 mph. Exhilarating speed, let me tell you!

Oh yeah, cost per pound on the cleaned fish including the fine is about $38 per pound. I brought home one (1) grouper, yielding about 4 1/2 lbs of filets. OTOH, I released several barracuda, and two sharks.