To Begin,  The subject line is wrong.  It was the U.S. rules on  Lake
Champlain that required hose removal.

Regarding the statement ". You WILL be boarded, perhaps more than  once,..."
As far as inland waters and Great Lakes, things have changed,
.......Homeland security seems to have a lot of other things on their  mind, primarily
going for job justification looking for numbers of  stops.

Have never been actually boarded in 25 plus years.  That  includes the
Hudson River, and all of the canals.
I suppose at this point...knock on wood.

Have had the USCG (one hot rod coxwain) or Homeland  inepts;  Pull along
side and question while I kept moving (twice).  Checked out at a dock (polite
conversation) twice, once on Lk. Erie  and once on the NY canals.  Once was
used as target practice by  repeated pulling alongside by an in training
coxwain on Lk. Huron.  I had  to call them and ask what was up.

Carl from Dayton

SNIP:
Have never been actually boarded in 25 plus years.

REPLY:
Stand By.

David Sorenson
Duluth, MN

We were stopped by a Canadian police boat while on the Bay of Quinte
(between Kingston ON and the Trent River). He came alongside and talked with
us for about 30 minutes. There were 2 officers on the boat. We talked about
doing the Loop and lots of other interesting chit chat. He never boarded us.
After about 30 min of chit chat, I finally (politely) asked him what was his
reason for stopping us since he didn't board us. He smiled and said "safety
check... but since you are doing The Loop, I know your safety stuff is all
in order."
Then he left.
R.

-----Original Message-----
From: Great-Loop [mailto:great-loop-bounces@lists.trawlering.com] On Behalf
Of Bob Boynton

We have cruised in the North Channel and Georgian Bay four times in the past
eight years. We were boarded off shore once and boarded at dock once. We
were never asked about about our waste connections. They didn't even care
about the amount of alcohol on board. They were concerned about weapons.