My boat is a part of a charter fleet managed by a company in the Pacific Northwest. I take the boat out of service for personal use for a few weeks each year. When I picked it up this year, I was appalled by the condition...
David Weil has been the proud author of the “Ask a Maritime Attorney” column in The Southern California Log Newspaper and Sea Magazine since 2006, with over 300 installments of the column. We have provided links in this section to those articles, covering a wide range of topics of interest to the California maritime and boating communities.
When I bought my boat nearly 20 years ago, it was registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The boat has a six-digit number engraved on a bulkhead in the engine room, and I am informed that this is probably...
Buying a Boat vs. Buying the LLC That Currently Owns It
April 24, 2013
I am a yacht broker representing both the buyer and seller in a transaction involving a boat that is titled into a Delaware limited liability corporation (LLC). The buyer has completed the sea trial and survey, and the...
I keep my boat at a small marina on a lake in Arizona. It recently came to my attention that a fellow boat owner was paying $200 per month less than other tenants for the same size boat and the same type of slip, and he had...
I own a racing sailboat, and I was involved in a collision with another competitor during a race. The protest committee determined that we were at fault, and the owner of the other boat is asking for my insurance company to...