On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:04:50AM -0400, Ron Rogers wrote:
>
> Why provide a foreign government an excuse to arrest you or your boat?
[sigh] Ron, no disrespect intended... but why terrify yourself with
imaginary foreign governments that know or care about US paperwork? You
might as well postulate a firing squad (instantly convened for the
offense of being a foreigner) and be done with it. :)
In my years of cruising and encountering customs and immigration
procedures of all sorts, I've never run into one that asked me about
anything but the very basic paperwork (essentially, some sort of ID that
showed you to be affiliated with some country.) In fact, 99% of them of
were satisfied with a US driver's license - and I'm not saying this
facetiously; I used a Maryland DL as my main ID for years while cruising
the Caribbean (for the last three years of that, it was expired. Made no
difference.) Unless you're going through something like the British
Virgin Islands, where the C&I people are not only very serious and
professional but also see US paperwork day in and day out, you could
probably get away with printing up something with stamps and seals and
ribbons that declared you to be The Grand Panjandrum-Poobah of
Gilliwhilikin, and have no problems - or, at worst, be asked for another
form of ID because the C&I officer doesn't recognize it as a valid
document.
Oh, and - I had an SSB on board for most of those years, big and visible
and immediately to starboard of the main companionway. Nobody ever paid
the slightest attention to it. I'd sooner have expected the average C&I
guy to break out in a Wagner aria than ask me about radio paperwork.
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