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John V.
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Initially Posted - 11/23/2001 :  20:21:31  Show Profile  Visit John V.'s Homepage

At my summer home on an Island in upper Michigan the mooring for my sailboat is about 100 yds. from the Canadian boarder. We sail in and out of Canada with great regularity. If we decide to stop at one of the little towns for ice cream we clear canada c
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Ellis Bloomfield
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Response Posted - 11/23/2001 :  21:07:05  Show Profile
John,
I think it depends on where you cross. I made a road trip through customs at Detroit last week on my way from Minnesota to Toronto and the customs people on both sides were really ugly. They didn't inspect anything they just had a really bad attitu
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 11/23/2001 :  23:52:05  Show Profile
I lived in Canada for 18 years - and am convinced that Canadian customs has the surliest bad-attitude sob's in the world! (And no, I was never caught with any contraband!) :)
Derek - now in the Great State of Texas and very happy about it!
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Jeff_Clarke_bankone.com
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Response Posted - 11/24/2001 :  00:13:42  Show Profile
From what I've heard, Customs are getting very strict about clearing the return back via water, if not they might show up at your marina for further inspection. Living in the Detroit area I frequently go to Ontario restaurants either via boat or car. If I
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Ken Cave
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Response Posted - 11/24/2001 :  03:38:57  Show Profile
Everything is on a computer in the waters of the northwest. and, you really do not want to sneak into Canada these days!!

The Can Pass is out the door for now, even though they are taking money for next year's pass. Everyone must physically pass thro
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John V.
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Response Posted - 11/24/2001 :  16:16:22  Show Profile  Visit John V.'s Homepage
The northwest is fairly densly populated in contrast with the North Channel of lake Huron. We have always had an easy cross boarder relationship between the various islands of the region. I am not familiar with the Can pass. perhaps someone could explai
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Ken Cave
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Response Posted - 11/25/2001 :  01:51:45  Show Profile
Basically, a CanPass is a program out of Canada where you purchase a yearly pass for $25.00 (Canadian-like a couple of bucks American) where they give you a number for telephone clearance when you are approximately four hours away from a Canadian stopover
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John V.
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Response Posted - 11/25/2001 :  08:34:27  Show Profile  Visit John V.'s Homepage
Thanks Ken,

with all the crossings we make in a summer no agent has ever offered us a Can Pass, but I will look into it. The area where I cruise is fairly wild and uninhabited when compared with other boarder areas. My interest has been in what change
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Ken Cave
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Response Posted - 11/26/2001 :  00:35:55  Show Profile
John:

years ago (1975 to be exact) we were returning to the US from Canada after a 21 day trip into the Gulf Islands in our ODay Mariner-19 foot (which I still own!) and had about three gallons of wine still on board. When I tried to declare them at t
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Ellis Bloomfield
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Response Posted - 11/27/2001 :  12:11:02  Show Profile
There is an excellent article in the December 2001 SAIL on sailing out of Thunder Bay and east of there. It's a fantastic area. The water is so clear you can see bottom at 20 feet and the guides state you can use the water for drinking and coffee if you b
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John V.
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Response Posted - 11/28/2001 :  12:02:42  Show Profile  Visit John V.'s Homepage


Hey Ellis, you made it across. The customs agents at SSM are nicer as far as I can tell. I saw the article on the Thunder Bay cruise. It looked interesting. I'll have to take a closer look this evening.
Since Cruising world, Sail and National Rev
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