Originally Posted by
Brighton Line
I am not following this thread. I used to do one and two day cruises to nowhere out of Manhattan all the time in the early 2000's and it was not a violation of Passenger Vessel Services Act. I did a few bachelor parties back then, four to a cabin we never visited other to get out of a bathing suits when the pool closed.
Wasn't CTN's banned due to some employee tax issue for gambling day cruises and daily Bahama cruises out of Florida, claiming the employers did not have to by income tax even though employees on the were in the US every day .
All the mass market cruise lines did CDN's to get back on their rotation schedule when coming to NY for a season.
Cruise To Nowhere technically didn’t visit any other ports. The PVSA / Jones Act prohibits non US Flagged cruise ships and ocean liners from visiting multiple US ports without first visiting a foreign port. It also prohibits non US flagged cruise ships and ocean liners from transporting passengers between one US port and another US port without first visiting a “distant” foreign port. So this leaves two possibility of cruises... the more common one that leaves and return to the same port. And than the Panama Canal cruises that always stop in either South America or Panama. This is also why Hawaii cruises tend to have random ports like Ensenada or Vancouver or some random out of the way island in the Pacific. Also why Victoria, BC is on almost every sailing to Alaska from Seattle. Cruise to Nowhere satisfied all the requirement because they are technically not transporting anyone between 2 US port... they’re just going out and back.