[PUP] Canadian Tax on Boats

[rodgibbons at mindspring.com]

I'm perhaps just missing something here, but why the pointed interest in keeping a cruising yacht (seemingly only) in Vancouver/Canada?

Washington state recently passed (this past July) a law which, if I understand it correctly, allows cruising yachtsmen (who do not live in WA state nor own property here), to keep their boat in WA for up to 12 months without owing any sales/use tax. (I'm not sure; this may apply only to U.S vessels...but I don't recall reading that limiting stipulation.)

Is there something I don't know about berthing in Vancouver that offers some benefit (aside from being 20-30 miles closer to British Columbia/Alaska cruising grounds) as compared to docking in Washington state?

Rod Gibbons
founder:  Cruising Cats USA
Seattle (also Portland, San Francisco & Hawaii)