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NOAA wants boater opinions, feed back
For several months now I’ve been talking to people about
some proposed changes to our navigation aids – particularly some local buoys – and encouraging boaters to take an interest in, and speak out about, ideas being considered by both National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Coast Guard. I’ve attended two public listening sessions (Long Beach and San Diego) and hosted a meeting of key players over the chart table at Seabreeze Books and Charts in San Diego. At this point I have good news and bad news. The good news is that these agencies want to hear from all of
us. From those meetings we now have word that our San Diego approach buoy will be replaced in its original configuration, with all the elements we’ve relied on for years. And other proposals may get more study before decisions are made. The bad news is that so few of us in the small-boat world
bothered to take an interest. For those in attendance, all these meetings were encouraging and very productive. We got our buoy back in San Diego, and we See COMMENTARY page 21
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Do we really need another artificial reef? Editor:
As a longtime San Diego resi- dent I can honestly say that
heading down for a day of div- ing at the artificial reef located directly off Mission Beach has never been on my list of Things to Do.
While I understand that the
reef brings in money from tourists and visitors who want to dive in the area, I don’t understand why we need to continue sinking boats in the reef if the locals aren’t too hyped up about it.
That’s Some Name — Bob & Weave
The Log reporter snapped a photo of this strategic boat name at the docks of the Newport Sea Base.
The seller defaulted, now what? Q
By David Weil, Esq.
I made an offer to buy a boat several months ago but we had to back
out of the deal before closing. My mortgage broker conducted a title search and determined that the boat’s Hull Identification Number was a duplicate of another boat and the boat I was looking at was stolen. I obviously withdrew my offer but I am out several thousand dollars in expenses for surveys, travel and time off to attend the surveys. The pur- chase agreement was a stan- dard form contract from the California Yacht Brokers Association and it includes a provision for the buyer to recover reasonable expenses if
It seems to me that San
Diego is all about bringing in more money, which means luring more people to our sea- side town. It’s hard enough finding parking at local beach- es and fighting traffic on our daily work commutes. Can’t some things be left alone rather than continue to add and build to a site that will only bring more people to our beaches thus adding to the traffic and headaches we locals currently endure?
Morris Henderson San Diego
More eyes on the water needed
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The article in The Log about San Diego’s new iWatch pro- gram (July 4 edition) proved to this boater that some harbor authorizes actually get it. As a liveaboard, I constant- ly am on the lookout for suspi- cious people wandering
the seller defaults. We believe the failure to provide clear title to us is a default and have demanded that the seller pay our expenses but he refuses to respond. Before we pursue this any further can you confirm for us that this was a default under the contract?
cannot provide an iron- clad answer to our read- er’s question without taking a look at his contract and asking a list of back- ground questions, but since he used a standard CYBA form contract I can provide a gener- al overview of his options. In this case, the question of whether the seller defaulted under the purchase contract, or breached the contract, will depend on who terminated
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around the docks, peering into boats or acting strangely. I’ve heard of these programs in other harbors and only wish that we can have one in Newport Beach where although there are very few of us liveaboards left, our prop- erty is just as important to us as those who keep their pricey
the contract and whether the buyer signed the final accept- ance section of the agreement before the contract was termi- nated.
The current version of the CYBA contract allows the buyer to complete sea trial and survey and satisfy other contingencies within a certain time period, but regardless of the outcome of those inspec- tions the buyer is not obligat- ed to purchase the boat until he or she signs the “Final Acceptance” section at the end of the contract. Therefore, if the seller in our reader’s case terminated the contract before the buyer signed the final acceptance, he would most likely not be found to be in breach of the contract since See ATTORNEY page 20
yachts in the bay. Perhaps this will motivate city officials to form a similar program here in my marina.
Cris Stein
Letters edited for clarity and brevity.
On Board With Johnson by J.R. Johnson
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