Boat maintenance or lack of, causing damage or loss, and, negligent operation (ie "driving") are very different things.
Policies here for cars, and probably boats, exclude insurance where the boat operator is drunk/under drugs. The exclusion would not operate if the owner was unaware someone he let use the boat was so affected.
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BruceK
2005 Integrity 386 "Sojourn"
Sydney Australia
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