On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 01:11:48PM -0500, Ed Kelly wrote: > Under American law any business, including a marina, owes the highest > standard of care to any invitee (any person using their services). > Although Kris seems to believe in it, "trust and inspections" are not > going to protect a marina from just one person who is behind the > learning curve or just don't care, and subsequently has their boat > sink in the slip, explode, catch fire, electrocute others in the > water near it, or otherwise cause people and their property to be > hurt or injured.
Honestly, I don't believe trust and inspections to be entirely effective (in fact, I don't have any reason to believe that they're even terribly effective). What I said is that, in terms of *preventing* catastrophe, they will accomplish more than requiring insurance does. Insurance doesn't prevent catastrophes from happening, it simply mitigates those catastrophes that do happen. You take care to prevent catastrophe, and you insure in case your care wasn't quite enough. And let's face it, any boat that's been suitably tweaked for living aboard is worth considerably more than an insurer's going to actually pay out for its loss; moral peril just isn't a game that any of us want to play with our boats. Cheers, Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
