TITLE 46 - US CODE - SUBCHAPTER VIII - SAILING SCHOOL VESSELS
46 USC Appendix 446 - Sailing school students and sailing school instructors without seamen status under steam-vessel and merchant seamen provisions or maritime law doctrines
Sailing school students and sailing school instructors shall not be considered to be seamen under the provisions of titles 52 and 53 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, or for the purposes of the maritime law doctrines of maintenance and cure or warranty of seaworthiness.
Each owner or charterer of a sailing school vessel shall maintain evidence of his or her financial responsibility to meet any liability incurred for death or injury to sailing school students or sailing school instructors on voyages aboard the vessel, in an amount not less than $50,000 for each student or instructor. Such financial responsibility may be evidenced by policies of insurance or other adequate financial resources.
46 USC Appendix 446b - Sailing school vessel without status of merchant vessel or vessel engaged in trade or commerce
For the purposes of section 291 of this Appendix, section 11101(a)(c) of title 46, and section 883 of this Appendix, a sailing school vessel shall not be deemed to be a merchant vessel or a vessel engaged in trade or commerce.
46 USC Appendix 446c - Definitions
For purposes of this subchapter, the terms sailing school students, sailing school instructor, and sailing school vessel have the meaning given such terms in section 2101 of title 46.