Coast Guard boarding & hull number question?

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Boy the C.G. must have got some heat from the top brass lately. I also got stopped by a 87 footer out of Miami on Friday I was 10 miles from shore. They just asked me some questions and let me go after they confirmed my registration over the VHF on channel 16 I was not actually boarded. I told them I was checked out approx one year ago at a dock so they must have pulled up the info. When I was stationed on a 95 footer in 1968 we never boarded any small craft unless we knew they were carrying drugs or Cubans coming over. The woman C.G. rep. I talked to over the VHF was not very friendly AT ALL even when I told here I was stationed at the same base and pulled the same duty back in my day on a 95 footer. We knew if you alienate the public by being a S.O.B. you won’t get much help later from the ones you just alienated.




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[McGillicuddy]

Guess she's sold on "an army of one" rather than winning over "hearts and minds," eh?