Times have changed!!

[NightWing]

Originally Posted by Old Hubbard Rd

Back in the old days I would think someone would have realized they had pulled over a nice family that had no alcohol and a bunch of little kids on board and that they just would have sent us on our way.

Don't make it a personal issue. It had nothing to do with your family being "nice" or not. Even nice families leave the dock without enough PFDs on board. Even nice families can have a discharged fire extinguisher. Even nice families can overload their boat. Even nice families can have a boat with a dead horn.

To send you on your way without a safety check, based just on the appearance of a "nice" family with little kids on board would have been totally irresponsible. And the fact that there WERE little kids on board made it even more essential that everything was verified to be in order. The officer did it right.