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A few months ago, the President implemented even stricter rules governing
visits to Cuba. I am a Canadian with a Canadian registered boat planning to visit Cuba next winter, but the new rules appear to include me if I leave from USA. Does anyone have any recent experience? |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:03:01 -0300, "Jim Lea" wrote:
A few months ago, the President implemented even stricter rules governing visits to Cuba. I am a Canadian with a Canadian registered boat planning to visit Cuba next winter, but the new rules appear to include me if I leave from USA. Does anyone have any recent experience? ====================================== No but from Florida it would be very easy to go by way of the Bahamas, Cayman Islands or Mexico. |
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Subject: Cuba
From: Wayne.B No but from Florida it would be very easy to go by way of the Bahamas, Cayman Islands or Mexico. Why would you want to go around and passed Cuba to get to Cuba? Florida to Caymans to Cuba? :-) Capt. Bill |
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Here is some corespondence between a Canadian sailor and the US Ambasador to
Canada and other authorities. http://www.internationalchallenge.org/cuba/whatsnew.htm The jist from the US State Department is: "a Canadian crew aboard a Canadian vessel traveling through American waters with no intent to carry funds or commerce to the Cuban people is "at risk" of removal from their vessel and seizure of their boat. The U.S. Coast Guard would be operating within their legal jurisdiction if they were to take such action...even for vessels that are clearly noncommercial." What that really means is that, by executive order of the President, if the USCG suspects that you may go to Cuba even after visiting another country if you have been in US waters they can sieze your boat ANYWHERE they find you. They patrol the Florida Straight and Old Bahama Channel pretty heavily with helicopters, cutters and Orions and will quickly know if you have recently been in US waters so be careful. You better hope that they don't monitor this news group. The outlook is bleak but hopefully may improve after next Tuesday. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com "Jim Lea" wrote in message ... A few months ago, the President implemented even stricter rules governing visits to Cuba. I am a Canadian with a Canadian registered boat planning to visit Cuba next winter, but the new rules appear to include me if I leave from USA. Does anyone have any recent experience? |
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Why would the current situation improve next Tuesday? Do you think the
Castro regime is in need of Heinz products? Your "jist" is suspect as is your overall outlook. |
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Subject: Cuba
From: Wayne.B (LaBomba182) wrote: Why would you want to go around and passed Cuba to get to Cuba? Florida to Caymans to Cuba? :-) =========================================== To legally circumvent any possible US travel restrictions (he's a non-US boat/citizen). It was a joke Wayne. :-) Take a look at a chart. Capt. Bill |
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:55:09 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote: What that really means is that, by executive order of the President, if the USCG suspects that you may go to Cuba even after visiting another country if you have been in US waters they can sieze your boat ANYWHERE they find you. You people happy with your democracy, then? Just keep listening to your government describe foreigners as the terrorists, and your government's pirates as "freedom's vanguard" or whatever. And the nice people in Wilson, NY wonder where all their Canadian business went this year...poor *******s. R. |
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![]() The jist from the US State Department is: "a Canadian crew aboard a Canadian vessel traveling through American waters with no intent to carry funds or commerce to the Cuban people is "at risk" of removal from their vessel and seizure of their boat. The U.S. Coast Guard would be operating within their legal jurisdiction if they were to take such action...even for vessels that are clearly noncommercial." Doesn't Canada have anything to say about this? |
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