the Cdn website is
http://www.tc.gc.ca/marinesafety/Shi...s/registry.htm

you can register register the boat as a Cdn vessel with Cdn federal
registration w/o a Cdn ever seeing the boat or it going to Canada -
needs a unique name in their registry - but you make names unique by
adding II, III etc or extending the name - eg Mary becomes Mary T or
Mary Jones, etc There's a name lookup on the website.

You need a special measurement survey for the process - costs $300-400
maybe - boats are registered in Canada by Thames tonnes or capacity
no. of beach balls or something equally useful.

You can fly a CDn flag all you want, no need to be Cdn registered.

One issue, only US citizens can legally own US documented (USCG)
vessels - if you buy a documented boat, you should de-document the
boat to to safe from USCG bull-**** prosecution/persecution. Fees are
$50 or something if you do it yourself. If it's state registered - I'd
probably ignore that and go to Cdn registration. Anybody can own a
state register boat.

I looked into moving my boat to Cdn registration recently because I'm
dual citizenship Cdn/US and with the current morons in DC and their
creation of global ill will - I'd just as soon be in a Cdn boat.


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:31:21 -0500, Ed McDermott
wrote:

look under licensing the boat in canada.

Call CCRA or check the Canadian Coastguard web site. You will have to pay:
- GST
- PST
- No duty since the boat was built in the U.S.

Now Here's the funny one. If you don't bring the boat into Canada you
don't have to pay GST or PST but you can't register your boat in Canada.
Since I'm not planning to bring my boat back, I don't know how I'm going
to register it.

I'm a Canadian but I may not be able to fly a Canadian Flag on my boat.

Ed

Steve wrote:

Hi All,

I am very interested in getting my hands on a 41' Morgan Out Island,
and I would like to know how difficult/expensive/frustrating it will
be to buy a boat in Florida, and sail it up to Georgian Bay.

I have checked the Canada Customs site, but didn't find anything
helpful in regards to taxes, fees, etc.

I know that I can't be the first person to have attempted this, but I
have searched high and low on the 'net for messages/pages/posts about
personal experiences, and have come up empty handed.

I would like to hear from sailors who have jumped through the
requisite hoops to bring a saiboat into Canada.

Note - The boat would be 1974 - 1980, and approx $60,000 US, if this
helps


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