Skip Gundlach wrote:
"krj" wrote in message
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If the boat is doucmented and has a US hailing port on the stern, it
will probably be seized as you enter Cuban waters. If she gets a British
Passport and puts the boat under British flag, maybe not, but still a
risk. GC is getting strict about keeping boats out of Cuba.
Kelton




What is GC?

He probably meant CG as in USCG which like a lot of American entities
has recently arrogated rights to itself that it doesn't really have.

And if in Cuban waters, presumed to be Cuban? (Can some other
authority operate in Cuban waters? - particularly to "seize?") Are you
saying there's an armed embargo (vs economic sanctions) for all vessels
entering Cuba?

Essentially yes according to one of Herr Dubya's latest proclamations on
the topic of the evil empire. As well, there is a pre-emptive facet to
the latest piece of "law" with respect to travel to Cuba. There was a
rather long thread on this issue recently.

As yet it has a blank stern, having the old sanded ready for new AwlGrip,
and the doc board is down in the engine room, removed to get to the screws
holding the countertop for the reefer, so it's a "stealth" documented boat
:{))

It won't matter. The NSA is employing thousands of highly trained
operatives using specially modified afdb's (see
http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb ) to read the minds of sailors and other
potential liberal haters of America to determine whether they _might_ be
trying to sail to Cuba so that they can pre-emptively seize their boats.