# Tall Ship Safety in Modern Times

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tall-ship-safety-in-modern-times/50508>\
**Category:** Tall Ships\
**Created:** [February 2, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tall-ship-safety-in-modern-times/50508 "2019-02-02T17:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tall-ship-safety-in-modern-times/50508/15 "2019-02-01T19:51:56Z")

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> [@Modern Accident Theory,Investigations and Aviation](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/modern-accident-theory-investigations-and-aviation/49448/35):
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> The big difference is there is a legal requirement for the airplane and not for a sailboat.

Only if the aircraft is certificated as a standard or higher category. If it is an experimental aircraft the owner can do whatever he wants, just like the owner of an uninspected, non classed sail boat. Try and keep the comparisons apples to apples.

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