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it’s important to know
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how you’re going to use the yacht
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because
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something as simple as if you’re only
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going to use it for private pleasure
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purposes only in other words for your
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own use
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or whether you’re going to charter it
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if it’s private pleasure only there’s a
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lot less regulation
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that you have to follow but if it
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becomes a larger yacht you may wish to
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try and defray some of the expenditure
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of the yacht
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which means you’re going to want to
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charter it out
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but in chartering it out
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depending on the law of the flag
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there are a heck of a lot of other
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regulations that go along with that and
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you need to consider that before you
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purchase the yacht because in fact the
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yacht may not be suitable to follow
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those regulations
Miami, FL admiralty & maritime attorney Michelle Otero Valdés explains why it’s important to know how you are going to use a yacht before you buy it.