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Originally Posted by sailorboy1
since this is like closing the door after the cows got out, in reading the rule it seems that what it really is is a way for marinas/yards to make money by forcing a haulout
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Not a lot of money to make off this rule as the vast majority of cruisers arrive with a clean bottom. No one wants to do a 1,000 mile
passage with a dirty, slow bottom. For those that show up with a science
experiment below the waterline they will have to get hauled and cleaned on arrival.
Some places are a lot stricter. In the
Galapagos we had our bottom video taped twice by divers as part of our incoming clearance and they don't even have haulout facilities.