[PUP] Documentation

[Scott Bulger]

If you can find US surrogates you can form a US corporation and have it own
the boat.  Your US surrogates need to be officers of the corporation.  You
must have an annual meeting and take minutes.  There is a guy in San Diego,
Chris Winther who can set up the corporation for you.  I only know this
because my boat was owned by a German couple who did this to save on taxes.
Being an upstanding conservative American anxious to help defray the cost of
the gulf war I paid the $40,000 tax when the boat was brought into
Washington state.  Honestly, I've never been good at the tax dodge,
something about giving unto Ceasar. Wow I bet I'm getting lots of people
riled up with these comments.  Relax, this is all true, but it's just the
way I did it.  If you don't pay the tax, bully for you, I just am not smart
enough to figure it out.

Wait a minute, Venture was the Nordhavn 43 that the USMA graduate and 4
others got in to go around the world, they had problems and abandon the boat
in Darwin.  It was shipped back to the US to sell and NOW your taking it
back to Australia?  This is insane.  

Well Marge, I guess you were right and I was wrong.  When the topic of the 5
USMA guys came up several people commented that it seemed foolhardy or
otherwise foolish.  I was quick to defend them observing we didn't know much
about them.  I wonder if anyone knows the whole story?  Anyway, quite a boat
with history, that Venture!  

Scott Bulger, Alanui, N40II, Seattle WA

Oh, as I typed this I finally realized you weren't asking about getting US
documentation, you were asking if not having documentation would be a
problem as you take the boat South.  Why the heck was it even registered in
Delaware?  I'm confused and hungry, see ya!