"PrefersOffshore" wrote in message
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Tough call as to why. I expect just curiousity on their part. Due to
conditions, over 25 kts sustained and gusts in lower to mid 30's, we
were the only recreational boat out there. They just wanted to know
what our business was, since most people wouldn't think that to be
much fun. At the Tortugas, many commercial fishermen stayed in a
few more days until the wind came down. Had the prettiest fresh
grouper for dinner the second night at Garden Key - generous pair
of fishermen, would take nothing for it, so we returned the favor the
next day with a complete roast port dinner.

Drugs - Immigration - Cuba - Terrorism. The USCC has their hands
full and is doing the best they can with what they've got. I applaud
them, and felt no 'infringement' of my rights by their inquiry, which
was 'all business', and no monkey business or power tripping
screwin' around.

Cuba. We got boarded early Sunday am SW of Key West heading NE, same script,
names, dob's, though we were scrutinized a little more when the officer
figured out that the place we had sailed from, Providencia, was part of
Columbia. The CG doesn't stop boats going to the Bahamas or north, only
boats going to/coming from the general vicinity of Cuba, which renders
excuses like immigration, drugs and terrorism moot. The boat got boarded in
the same vicinity about a month ago, headed in the opposite direction.

John Cairns