If I live in Mississippi, and I want to drive a boat to Mexico, and back. What is the proper procedure for that?
If I live in Mississippi, and I want to drive a boat to Mexico, and back. What is the proper procedure for that?
Like can I just jump in my boat and go? Do I have to alert any authority about my trip? What are the chances the coast guard boards my boat to search it? How do you find a marina in Mexico? Do I have to alert the Mexican government of my trip? I assume I need a passport.
This is to settle a very polite heated discussion between my partner and I. Where neither of us know what we’re talking about.
Currently sailing to Mexico. You need to obtain an import permit for your boat into Mexico, even for short time. It's called a Temporary Import Permit, TIP and at today's rate is just under $20. You can ask for it between 11 and 60 days before arrival in Mexico. The application is done online at https://www.banjercito.com.mx/registroVehiculos/# Top right switches to english if needed.
You will need your boat registration (Federal Coast Guard Documentation or State issued Registration) Passport of boat owner
If the boat is owned by an LLC you'll need more ownership proof.
On arrival in Mexico you must contact immigration and customs. You'll need to fill in paperwork and present crew list and crew passports. Declare any alcohol, controlled medication and similar. Until you have sorted this you should fly flag Q, quarantine yellow flag. Once you have been given authorization (clearance) into the country you take Q flag down and replace with a Mexican courtesy flag, flown on Starboard side.
Failure to do the above can land you in major trouble.
That’s some good info I didn’t see elsewhere. Man this is way more complicated than I expected.
passport is bare minimum, but you need to get boat's papers in order. you gotta pay a visit to mexican consulate for that
putting some of these words in search engine of your preference should get you link like this: https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/expert-advice-archive/2017/april/boaters-guide-to-crossing-the-border or like this https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/vancouver/images/pdf/boat.pdf
"any vessel that leaves from a United States port and returns without calling at a foreign port or place has not departed the United States."
There goes my idea of running a gambling boat in international waters.
I misread "marina" and thought you were asking about where to find marijuana in Mexico.
The most casually planned smuggling operation in history there.
Funny story about me and weed, or would it be weed and I? Anyway, I started smoking weed when I was 12. Since then I have done every drug that has been available to me. I enjoyed most of them. The only one that got me was heroin.
So, after over a decade of heroin abuse. Then around 5 years of methadone. I finally got off the methadone, and I find that I can’t get fucked ip any more. But not because of what your probably thinking.
I got off opiates. I smoked some weed. It makes me paranoid. I drank some beer I kinda got drunk, but mainly it just made me feel like shit. I hate stimulants. So things like coke or crack or meth are a no go. I even grew my own mushrooms, but they gave me a headache. I’m not going back to opiates.
I’m involuntarily sober and it fucken sucks. I’m an insob. Hehehe
Another option would be to team up with a cartel and shoot your way into Mexico .
So, as a southern American. It is true I do love guns. I am also indifferent about my daily life and death struggles. However, if at all possible. I would like to die as painlessly as possible. Maybe even in my sleep.
No advice to offer but tell us about your trip when you get back that sounds cool as hell.
I would love to, but unfortunately I am an old millennial that’s barely making it from paycheck to paycheck. I consider myself lucky to have a roof and full belly most of the time. The closest I’ll ever come to making that trip. Is the fishing kayak I plan on buying with income tax money this year.
Truthfully, the reason I posted this is because my partner and I were talking about a hypothetical trip and the logistics involved. These questions were the main points of contention. They thought that you’d have to tell the US government when/where you were going and coming back. File a bunch of paperwork with both governments. Definitely have your ship boarded and searched. Stuff like that.
I figured it would be just go down there, and come back. If a US coast guard ship saw you they might stop and search you. Otherwise no muss no fuss.
But, as is usually the case. Neither of us were exactly right, and the truth lies somewhere in between.