affixed to land or to the bottom of the ocean in a manner that sapped her practical capacity to serve as a mode of transportation on water. Belle of Orleans, therefore, suggests the BETTY LYN II retained her vessel status during the repair period. Belle of Orleans also relied, in part, on the Supreme Court decision in Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co. See Belle of Orleans, 535 F.3d at 1306, 1309-12. In Stewart, the Supreme Court decided whether a person injured while working on a dredge called the Super Scoop could recover worker’s compensation under the Jones Act, an act that protects only seamen. 543 U.S. at 485-86, 125 S.Ct. at 1122-23. The Stewart Court analyzed the term “vessel in navigation,” because “the key to seaman status Yacht, 625 F.2d 44, 47 n. 2. (5th Cir.1980) (<HOLDING>). In fact, “all serious repairs upon the hulls
recognizing irs position that turnover of erisa funds to chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee would cause plan to lose its erisa qualification and tax exempt status holding that where a witness had been convicted seventeen years earlier but had been given probation and had not been confined the date of the conviction controlled holding that a yacht that had been testsailed but was placed in drydock afterward did not lose its status as a vessel merely by being drydocked holding that the utility did not carry its burden of proof by merely opening its books to inspection holding that mortgagees interest in an action for a mortgaged yacht was unaffected by judgment where its interest was the specific amount of the loan