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14-11-2010, 17:31
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Originally Posted by hellosailor
Heck, with a little imagination you could probably get the gumint to PAY you to go there, and infect them with capitalism.<G>
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I would like to experience Cuba b4 we (USA) screw it up.
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15-11-2010, 09:13
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Key West, Florida
Boat: DUFOUR 12000 CT - 45' - SANS SOUCI
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Yellow Flag
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Originally Posted by hellosailor
Don't worry, Cuba will still be there next year.
Right now if you want to visit Cuba there are many legal ways. There's a constant stream of freight from the Gulf states, legally. And visits for religious and charitable purposes. If you really MUST GO, read up, others are doing it.
Heck, with a little imagination you could probably get the gumint to PAY you to go there, and infect them with capitalism.<G>
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I am infected and a carrier where do I make application for payday?
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19-11-2010, 07:33
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Boat: panda 40
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cuba
hi all wre heading down the icw to the keys. hoping to go to cuba mid jan. anyone out there looking to buddy boat?
S/V crow's nest
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19-11-2010, 10:13
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Key West, Florida
Boat: DUFOUR 12000 CT - 45' - SANS SOUCI
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Key West to Cuba
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Originally Posted by harnercodave
hi all wre heading down the icw to the keys. hoping to go to cuba mid jan. anyone out there looking to buddy boat?
S/V crow's nest
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Let me know when you get closer to the jump-off date.
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23-11-2010, 19:29
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Interested and British so no legal problems,
(god bless the queen)  
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01-12-2010, 18:53
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: (Dis)United Kingdom
Boat: Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45DS
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We are looking to go to Cuba via the Bahamas this season (May-ish 2011), probably down to T&C then jump off to the E end of Cuba and either go N then up to the Keys or if we have time S and go via Caymans.
Anyone else with similar plans ?
Duncan
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Ft. Lauderdale waiting for a window
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05-12-2010, 08:38
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Kemah, Texas
Boat: Hunter 37.5 1991
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My understanding is that American law says that you can not "trade with the enemy".
You must convert $500 or so to Canadian or Panamanian money, keep the receipt from the bank and claim that you only spent the foreign money in Cuba and you are lega.
Just what i've heard.
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05-12-2010, 09:37
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
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Tell them you are going there to spy for Uncle Sam.
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05-12-2010, 11:14
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"You must convert $500 or so to Canadian or Panamanian money,"
ROFLMAO, doesn't anyone speak YnGlitch anymore? If you cannot "trade" with the "enemey" you cannot exchange ANYTHING with them. Doesn't matter who printed the money, doesn't matter if you use a Carte Blanche instead of a MasterCard. Which of a "no trade" is the confusing one?
You can find many first-person reports on the internet, and State Department proclamations, instead of nonsense.
Basically if you are caught coming back from Cuba, you will be asked to prove how you managed to stay there without spending ANYTHING in ANY FORM and you will be searched for contraband. "The nice folks let me stay for free and fed me" just won't cut it.
Why not do it the safe way and apply for permission to visit based on the legal reasons? (Yes, that's possible too.) Why risk having your boat confiscated and left to rot at the auction dock while you try to raise bail? To see some nice people with a failing 1950's timewarp and a military governmen they got suckered into accepting?
Damn expensive vacation for an American.
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05-12-2010, 12:11
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: California
Boat: Horizon 39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mule
I would like to experience Cuba b4 we (USA) screw it up.
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Very well said
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04-03-2011, 12:52
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Florida/Alberta
Boat: Lippincott 30
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Re: US to Cuba
I am Canadian, thinking of going to Cuba from Florida and back with an American friend (my boat, not U.S. registered).
Anyone know what the definitive answer is to my American friend doing the journey with me?
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04-03-2011, 13:10
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 65
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Re: US to Cuba
Am Canadian with Canadian flagged boat. May of 2010 returned from Cuba. Brought a US citisen back . He had been stranded there off a Aus boat, Had engine problems. He went through a 4 hour interigation to verify his story. Was told that if had not been an emergency he would have broken the law and be in serious trouble.
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04-03-2011, 13:13
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wherever the boat is!
Boat: Marine Trader 34DC
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Re: US to Cuba
avb3, the reality is that it is still illegal for a US Citizen to travel to Cuba without Treasury Dept. permission, no matter what form of transportation. The current Administration seems to have other issues on their hands and have not been as aggressive as the previous Administration. The problem with your friend will surface when you come back to the US and clear in. Chuck
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18-03-2011, 19:04
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Clear Lake Marine Services - Seabrook, Texas
Boat: Gulfstar, Mark II Ketch, 43'
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Re: US to Cuba
The rule has been no direct travel to Cuba from USA, that's why USA citizens always go to Canada then fly to Cuba. By USA rules, sail to Mexico, Caymans, Bahama's, etc.
When did they put cameras on Fat Albert
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19-03-2011, 03:50
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Nearly an old salt
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lefkas Marina ,Greece
Boat: Bavaria 36
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This is an outright political thread and has no place on CF.
Dave
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