NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether Coast Guard officers violated the Fourth Amendment when they made a warrantless, suspicionless and discretionary day-time boarding of a sailboat on the high seas, entered the below-deck cabin after learning that weapons were stowed there, and then conducted a safety inspection in the cabin.
I
On June 20, 1982, defendants Humphrey, Garbez and Smith were sailing in the north Pacific Ocean...
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