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The Coast Guard are not the bad guys here.


I never said they were. I'm willing to bet that Robi or anyone like him weren't the ones behind writing the USCG approval process and procedures. In fact, I'm willing to bet it was a nameless, faceless bureaucrat or *gasp* a committee of bureaucrats who have to justify their paychecks by coming up with onerous, ridiculous rules and procedures just because they can.