I’m all for vessel safety and consciously practice it. But risking a VSC while having important clients or impatient kids on board is something I definitely want to avoid. When you say “How to Avoid All This,” is it a fact that requesting and passing a voluntary check will immunize an enforcement VSC visit?

Am I reading that right? The name of his boat is “Filthy Whore”? Right on.

P.S. But I wouldn’t call them “cool.”

Not the same kind of “pirates.” The Somali terrorists are inartfully tagged “pirates” only because they use boats. Go ahead, fly your Jolly Roger. I won’t confuse you with an East African terrorist.