Your Obligation

on January 4, 2025

Your Obligation as a Fellow Boater It’s 2025, Federal law (Federal Code 46-2304) stipulates that “the master or person in charge of a vessel is obliged to assist others in danger unless rendering such assistance would place his/her own vessel, crew or passengers in serious danger.” The duty does not extend to saving property (such as another boat), but to saving “any individual found at sea in danger of being lost.” Federal statutes contain a […]