How so? I didn’t see anything about it being a commercial vessel carrying passengers for hire. As a one time yacht captain I can assure you most real captains would not have been so irresponsible.
My neigbor a couple of slips down has a 37 Silverton (well it was recently struck by a whale and sank, a different story lol) but jeez I cannot even imagine 27 people on that boat! We have a 40 ft sailboat and with 10 it feels really crowded to me.
You’re right. I don’t know the details. It’s just that it’s common in New York to charge people for fireworks cruises etc., and it sounded like someone trying to make some money on the side. I have no doubt that most yacht captains and commercial boat captains are highly professional. That’s kind of what set me off here, as this person clearly was overloaded and operating outside of the rules. It’s very sad, especially given that it appears it was children who died.