S.C. Has a Clever Plan: Let's 'Insurance' Derelict Boats Out of Existence

Well Intended But Wrongheaded Approach, Industry Guys Say

This is one of 161 derelict boats that the non-profit Wounded Nature-Working Veterans has helped remove from South Carolina waters. The group’s leader thinks a new kind of insurance would solve the problem.

South Carolina is facing the same derelict boat problem plaguing other coastal states in the South, and the Palmetto State has come up with its own n…