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mariners. We haven’t been in there in years, but always found something we needed. We’ll go back soon. Thanks.
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Small boater owner chimes in on DP RFQ
Re: County releases request for qualifications for Dana Point- Harbor (March 25 issue). I hope the county specifies, in any con- tract that the fees cannot be increased without county approval nor more than the COL maximum. The average working person owning smaller boats has a hard time as it is affording his boating activities and many would not be able to continue if prices increased.
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Great story on local business
Re: Dock Lines: Sea Chest gives new life to surplus marine gear (March 25 issue). I didn’t know it was still open. An interesting store to browse and service to
Great place to get raw water pumps
Re: Dock Lines: Sea Chest gives new life to surplus marine gear (March 25 issue). I get my reman’d water pumps for my 3208’s. Mr. von Der Ahe even gets them all reconfigured for me. Awesome, helpful, honest.
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Consider our coastline
The Log Newspaper: Our latest #political #cartoon mocks the redevelopment process, with growth & #economic benefits on one side versus coastal protec- tion and skepticism of #CorporateAmerica on the other. What’s your take?
Chris Winter: There needs a bal- ance. What coast we have left to develop is limited as most of it is
See COMMENTS page 9 Fast Facts: San Diego’s Mission Bay
15 million Annual attendance 46 acres Total size 27 miles Coastline 25 percent Maximum allowable commercial development (on land) 6.5 percent Maximum allowable private use (on water)
Did you know Mission Bay, an area popular for recreational fishing and watercraft activities, was originally named “False Bay”? It was named as such by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542, who was considered to be one of the first European to visit San Diego. Mission Bay first became a destination for
recreational fishing more than 300 years later, when infrastructure was built to allow angling and hunting. Flooding a few years later destroyed the infrastructure. As World War II was coming to an end local offi- cials decided to revisit Mission Bay as a destination venue for recreational activities. An area once a marshland until the late 1940s was dredged and
Mission Bay 1955
Shedding some light on the maritime title search process By David Weil, Esq.
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cedure for a house. This is due in large part to the fact that a vessel may be registered or titled anywhere in the world, while the title records for real property are generally found in the state and county where the property is located. As such, the respective roles of a vessel documentation service and an Abstract of Title differ considerably from their coun- terparts in a real estate trans- action. A vessel documentation
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I am buying a boat through a yacht broker and the sea
trial and survey will be com- pleted next week. In the inter- im I asked my broker and the documentation company to start the title search, but I quickly learned that the title search process for a yacht is a lot different than it is for a house.
A title search for a vessel differs consid- erably from the pro-
service provides guidance, research, and clerical assis- tance in the processing of claims against a vessel and vessel title transfers. Most qualified documentation serv- ice companies are members of a national trade group known as the American Vessel Documentation Association (on the web at americanves-
sel.com). AVDA members pro- vide a valuable service and we highly recommend using them for any vessel title issues. They are not, however, a title insurance company, and they are not obligated to clear up a title problem that may have been undisclosed or overlooked prior to the pur- chase of a boat. A Coast Guard Abstract of
Title is a record of all of the documents submitted to the Coast Guard for a particular boat and accepted for record- ing by the Coast Guard. An Abstract is available for all Coast Guard documented ves- sels, either through a vessel documentation service or directly from the Coast
Guard’s National Vessel Documentation Center (
uscg.mil/hq/cg5/nvdc/). Many people view an
Abstract as a vessel title histo- ry, but this is not exactly cor- rect for a number of reasons. First, it lists only materials that were accepted for record- ing by the Coast Guard during the time that the vessel was Coast Guard documented. As such, there may be lengthy periods of time that are not accounted for if the boat was ever registered in a state (such as through the California DMV) or in another country. More importantly, the
recording of a lien with the Coast Guard is optional. As such, a valid lien may not be listed on the Abstract, and a claim that is listed may not be a valid lien. An Abstract is therefore not a definitive “title history” for a vessel. Notwithstanding the short- comings of an Abstract as a title history, a wide range of information is listed on the document, and in view of the
On Board With Johnson by J.R. Johnson See ATTORNEY page 9
converted into a venue ripe with boating and fish- ing activities, including boat rentals and marinas. Residential development at Mission Bay is
banned to maximize public recreational opportuni- ties.
Source: City of San Diego
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