Quote Originally Posted by Bill Greenwood View Post
Sort of an aside, but most boats, not ships, are still made here in America.
Even those boats built in the US can be tripped up by the complexities of international politics. There's a shipyard in the Puget Sound that built a new fishing boat (think "Deadliest Catch," not catching crappies on Lake Fitz) that used too much foreign steel in its construction. Because of that, it won't be allowed to fish in US waters. This stems from the ~100-year-old Jones Act.

Ron Wanttaja