#836319 - 07/24/08 02:30 PM
Re: SHUTTLE SERVICE
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Fordman
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I know about that law... When I asked very pointed questions about where is was required I got...... please hold...... oh sir its only required in Kentucky. I know your supposed to have it by the book, and I am in the process off getting mine but.... well heyel you know they are not enforcing that anywhere but the upper cumby.
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#836329 - 07/24/08 02:41 PM
Re: SHUTTLE SERVICE
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B.D.
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Loc: Hendersonville TN
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My understanding is that technically, if you're conveying paying passengers on a navigable waterway, you're supposed to have a USCG captain's license. That would include guide clients on your boat. Disclaimer - I haven't researched the law on this myself, so I'm going off of what I've been told by sources that may or may not be reliable. If you want a rock-solid, 100% certain, fully researched answer, somebody's gonna have to pay me. 
That said:
a. I don't think the Caney Fork gets counted by the feds as a navigable waterway subject to their jurisdiction.
b. I don't know of any active enforcement of this requirement in Tennessee. Heck, I don't even remember the last time I saw the USCG on the water in Tennessee. As pointed out above, Kentucky is a different kettle of fish.
HOWEVER: If you are a guide on federally-recognized navigable waters, and you don't have a USCG Captain's License, you need to make sure your liability insurance is ok with that. I have heard from a striper guide I know that his insurance threatened to drop his coverage when they found out he wasn't in full compliance with the federal captain's license requirement. If you pay big bucks every year for liability coverage, and then you get sued and your ins. co. drops your coverage because you didn't have a captain's license, you could be in a world of hurt.
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Edited by Brian Dunigan (07/24/08 02:42 PM)
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#836353 - 07/24/08 02:57 PM
Re: SHUTTLE SERVICE
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bowriter
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All true.But, as I understand it (and I quickly admit, I do not know), because the Caney can be navigated without impedement into the Cumberland, it falls within the realm.
I DO NOT KNOW. This is just what I have been told. Find out for yourself. All I am saying is that there are regulations in place. I, personally am sure I cannot pass the CG test. I also am sure I will not take it.
That is why I am not a guide.
But I know this. God forbid, should you have a serious accident involving personal injury, if you do not have this paper, you will be sued out of your socks.
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