I was watching Fourth of July fireworks from my boat this weekend, and I was shocked at how many private boats were shooting off signal flares during the regular show that was sponsored by the city. It occurred to me that we...
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.
I am a licensed captain and I operate a sportfishing boat in Southern California as a six-pack charter boat. Over the past few years, I have read a couple of your articles in The Log on charter boat operations and I have a...
I am considering the purchase of a large yacht through a broker, and I have a few questions about the escrow process. I understand that most transactions in California call for the buyer’s funds to be held and disbursed...
I am considering the purchase of a boat through a yacht broker, and he has advised me that I must submit the offer with a 10 percent deposit. This is a fairly significant purchase, so a 10 percent deposit will amount to quite...
I took a harbor cruise with my family in Long Beach Harbor a couple of weeks ago on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. The afternoon breeze picked up — and before long, we were surrounded by personal watercraft, windsurfers and...