Cruising Permit( all non US vessels)

S/V Ruth

Our cruise down south & to the Bahamas & beyond.

Al
02/01/2010

Direct from my conversation with CBP Oswego.

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I have my new cruising permit for one year!! I talked to the Supervisor there in Oswego. He said regardless of what the web site may say, the rules they have posted in the office are as follows:-
1) If you are just cruising the Great Lakes or Canal systems you do not need a crusing permit.
2) However you do need ( & that means everyone except US registered vessels) a cruising permit for all coastal ports in the US east, west & south.
3)You need only report in once to each of the District Offices of each region, which means every State, S.c. has two & Florida has about 4.

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Boat Name?

Al
01/30/2010

Ok. those that know us (especially Jennifer) & also those that follow our blog, I have a question for you.
Jennifer would like to name the new boat 'Knitting South'.
Let me know what you think. It would be the first Canadian registered vessel to contain the Word Knitting in it, which I guess would make it unique.

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01/30/2010 | Snoodle Time (steven dott dettman att gmail dott com)

Does not sound very nautical. Anna likes it though. There you go, and even split. Close Knit?

01/30/2010 | Al & Jennifer (sailingvessel dott ruth att gmail dott com)

& Snoodle Time is?? Jennifer

01/30/2010 | Snoodle Time (steven dott dettman att gmail dott com)

My only defense would be that no one knows what a snoodle is. Knitting.......well most do. Lol!!!

01/30/2010 | Nancy (nancycboston att gmail dott com)

Ha! That's a good one, no one will have that name. So original. It's not so nice in the south, NC had snow so I hear.

02/01/2010 | Mary H (babcooklmary att hotmail dott com)

Ha, if I was naming it I guess it would have to be "Book Worm". But if I think of Jen then it would have to be "Amaze Zing". Last year she might have called it "The Quilt". What would you like to call it Al?

02/01/2010 | Al & Jennifer (sailingvessel dott ruth att gmail dott com)

I'm not allowed to have an opinion

02/04/2010 | Snoodle Time (steven dott dettman att gmail dott com)

says who? I think you are allowed to have an opinion. What says you?

-22 centigrade last night

01/29/2010, Kingston Ontario

Well it got down to -22 Centigrade (-3F) last night with a wind chill even colder. Brrrrrrrrr At least we got some good news today. i called Home Land Security to renew the cruising permit for Ruth, but jumped the gun by a couple of days, said to call back on Monday, but it has been approved, so we will be legal again. If we get the trawler we are renaming her Ruth, which entails us cancelling the registration for the sailboat when she is sold & switching it to the trawler, all the paper work is in place just have to sell one & buy the other!! Anyone know someone who wants a C&C Redwing? we will be probably be almost giving her away.

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01/30/2010 | Susan Payette (susanpayette att hotmail dott com)

quick question re your cruising permit.... we cruised last year in the US with a user fee decal issued by US CBP.... what is the permit you are using?

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