The US has every right to set the rules for Cruising Permits or anything
else. The concern is the changes to the rules without warning and the
inconsistent applications of them. This has got to hurt the businesses
relying on visitors.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Don Newman via CnC-List
Far be it for me to defend the Homeland Security bureaucracy and the fact
that they have very different clearance procedures depending where in the
US you clear in, and very rarely do the procedures agree with what's posted
on their website. I've cleared in at Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Newport,
The government bureaucrats in Savannah want to see the boat's registration
upon entry so there is no joy when entering a non registered boat into the
USA here.
Jack Fitzgerald,
HONEY
CC 39 TM
US12788
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Colin Kilgour via CnC-List
cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote:
Far
From one of our club members:
FYI, I crossed over from Bimini to Port Everglades yesterday. I went in to
USCBP to get my Cruising Permit for the year, and they Denied it! If your
boat is not Registered they will not issue a Cruising Permit. So, if you
haul out or leave your boat any length of
That's a great way to attract boaters. Maybe next year they will just
confiscate and burn foreign boats and charge you for the service...
Jim Watts
Paradigm Shift
CC 35 Mk III
Victoria, BC
On 3 March 2015 at 11:38, Don Newman via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com
wrote:
From one of our club
I just got a new cruising permit a few weeks ago in Key West when we came
in from Mexico.
Somewhat surprisingly, it was no trouble whatsoever. Although my boat is
registered and I've had US cruising permits in the past so all my info was
already in their system.
We can bitch about it for a
