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Originally Posted by South of Heaven
Hmm, interesting points. Are there any LEO's on this site who could chime in??
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Heck, I was often the USCG helo pilot complaining we couldnt read a name on a boat....
But because some were faded, damaged, unrecognizable fonts, covered up, etc, etc....
I would never have actually violated a pleasure boater for it.
Joked around about it with lots of LEOs when we were stopping boaters for being stupid but maybe hard to prosecute.... often the state registration numbers would not be perfect, an easy thing to document. But we never did it.... just too unprofessional.
It would be the rare LEO or circumstance I think for getting a violation. Especially if the secondary marking is a serious attempt to allow normal identification of the vessel from.a distance.
Waterborne LEOs really dont write up many violations...not a slam, just an observation and I bet for good reasons...any weekend on the water shows us that.