The point was is that if you want to do it legally and properly - there's a lot of work to be done. I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Chuck one morning when I was in Tybee Island visiting friends and I ran into him at breakfast club. He talked frankly about what was involved to put the race on and its not a small effort by any means. Getting the hotels and municipalities and the insurance to all play nicely with each other - plus meet the demands of any of the sponsors you've picked up for the race is a lot to handle for a guy that has a full time job already.
A full time job to say the least!
Few years back I played with the idea of hosting a race down the CA coast from Santa Barbara to Long Beach, with doing a few tours out and around Catalina and the Channel Islands... After talking with my lawyer about what possible liability exposure I have personally she said none as long as I set up an LLC and run the race under the auspices of the corporation. But that was not a guarantee. OK not a problem I know the steps here as I have done this before with an airplane partnership.
Then I had to figure the permits, insurance ($1M plus for each of the government entities involved), logistics, chase boat (required by the insurance), yacht club support, awards, race shirts, give-a-ways etc...... all in all I was in the hole a few grand before any of the boats even hit the water... They way I figured it, is I would need at least 15 entries @ $450.00 each to make this thing fly and do it right.
Wasn't going to happen, hell we have to struggle to get 5 boats to make a class for the one day distance races we have here.
Maybe if I hit the $100 Million plus lottery and I have money to piss away I’ll reconsider this.
Ok you wouldn't get your boat taken - They would just give you a nice ticket/fine.
Per foot of boat.
Use to live on the beach in Ventura, CA... for a few years I would launch my Prindle 18 from the ramp in the harbor, sail it around to the beach for the summer holiday weekends and leave it there overnight and have beach/sailing parties...living the California dream as they say.
The last time I did it I got a $75 dollar fine, and could not launch the boat to get it back to the harbor. Basicly they made me take it off the beach and it had to be done before sunset that day... thank goodness for beachwheels.
