I think it certainly will help to free it up. One of the biggest concerns on the stability thing is that they throw the stability thing at us like they did in my letter, and it must be done within a year. For a boat I've been operating for 25 years, that's not going to change my situation for the future, but it will for building new boats.
It doesn't matter. They say everybody has to have it, so I have to have it, and they're not going to go back through the years. My boat's been fishing for 25 years and I haven't had an accident. I'm hoping I don't have one tomorrow, but I'm very comfortable with the stability of my boat, so I really don't know why I have to all of a sudden, at this stage of the game, be thrown into a pile with everybody and have to go get my boat done. It's more or less paperwork.
But to your comments on the future, on the building of new boats, the relaxing would greatly help. It would be good. My concern, though, is dealing with the past, because I'm in the past. I'm not into the future yet. I think every new boat built, whether she's 64 feet 11 inches or what, should have a stability test. I think we could start with the present. But the problem we have is how to deal with the past. How do I get a stability test done in one year when it'll probably take me five years to get around to finding an architect? I also have money costs. There's an economic cost that I'm concerned about.
So on your comments about the present and whether we should allow them to lengthen out the boats, if that's what it takes to pass the stability test, sure, you should lengthen them out. But if they can't pass it, then the boats shouldn't be built anyhow. It's a matter of what we do now and in the future that should take care of it. But how do we deal with the past?