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We get boarded once a year, usually during the salmon derby, and usually right outside the harbor. They are young, armed, professional, and courteous. They run a RIB with a light machine gun mounted on the bow. They come alongside, ask us if we've been boarded this year, deploy fenders, drop two on board, then stand off the port side.
The conversation usually goes like this:
Boarding Officer: " Good Afternoon, before we get started I have to ask you, Do you have any weapons on board?
Us: Yes we do.
BO: Without moving toward the weapons, can you tell me what kind and where they are located?
Us: Sure, there's a shotgun under the seat you're standing next to, a rifle in a duffel down in the v-berth, and a handgun in that small bag at the helm.
BO: Are any of the weapons loaded?
Us: Yes, they all are.
BO: (sigh) Of course they are.
The rest of the inspection goes well, and they give us a copy and tell us if we are stopped again to show it to the BO and generally we won't be boarded again.
Never had any problems, and never had any attitudes on either side.
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