Timeline for Do you go through customs when returning to your country if you never entered any others (by sea)?
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | @Mast, I can not say for sure, as it will be different for different areas, but much of this is, when you return to port you contact the port officials (or that of the nearest border officials) they will judge the risks and most of the time do not go further than a few minutes talking. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | Mast | @Willeke At what point, the moment you get out of visual/radar range (whichever goes further)? I can imagine that will lead to a large amount of false positives. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 19:14 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | @Mast, they assume you need to, unless there are very few 'strange' ship in the area. But mostly you just talk with an official, not often a search of your boat. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 19:12 | comment | added | Mast | If none of the near ports have radar up to the range of territorial waters, how will they check whether you'll even need to visit Border Services? | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | @DJClayworth, I guess it depends on how close you are to an international border and to international water, and how many vessels are in the area that come from international water and have not been in port yet. Where I live, it is very easy to meet someone out on sea and get things on your boat that you should not bring home. No need to go far either. (Netherlands, not Canada/USA. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 8:13 | comment | added | TripeHound | @Harper Don't know the answer (but suspect "yes")... although they're probably more worried about having met a Colombian boat with "interesting" cargo than Russian subs. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 6:54 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Is this also true if you're working your way down the US coast, inland waterway, rounding Key West and the like? Sure, you could've gone out and met a Russian sub, but other than that, there's not a lot of non-USA you could go to... | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 0:15 | vote | accept | RubusSpectabilis | ||
| Aug 23, 2017 at 20:39 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Accurate answer in general, but I disagree with the initial statement. Plenty of people go on trips of a few hours and are not required to clear customs. It's about whether you leave Canadian waters. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 17:31 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | Having to report to the border services does not mean that you will be searched, it will mean that you will be interviewed, just like they usually do at immigration at the airports. (And in some countries immigration officers will send you on to customs for a special check if they feel it needed, like they do in Canada.) | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 17:26 | comment | added | WGroleau | On the other hand, in most of the dozens of airports I've gone to in three years, I just walked through a door labeled "nothing to declare" with no one saying anything. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 17:00 | history | answered | Willeke♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |