Yesterday afternoon we got approached by a customs officer and he asked us nicely to see our papers. Believing that everything is in right order we gave him our papers only to be informed that we had not declared our boat here in the BVI's. We were allowed to stay for 30 days and thereafter we had to pay a fee to have our JUCA in the BVI's. Autsch...we did not read the small print when we entered the BVI's and when we extended our Visa with immigration we thought that would covered the people on board as well as the yacht. However we got summoned t
o custom for this morning at 10. Long story short...we did not have to go to prison and did not have to pay a fine of $ 5000....but we still had to pay a fine of $250 plus the $ 200 fee on top.....that did not go down very well. After that we went for a small shop and then went back home. I am still feeling not much better and took my mothers advise to take it easy and to look after myself and went to bed for the rest of the day. Sven and the kids went out..so I had the boat to myself and rested in peace until they came back for bedtime.
Yesterday afternoon we got approached by a customs officer and he asked us nicely to see our papers. Believing that everything is in right order we gave him our papers only to be informed that we had not declared our boat here in the BVI's. We were allowed to stay for 30 days and thereafter we had to pay a fee to have our JUCA in the BVI's. Autsch...we did not read the small print when we entered the BVI's and when we extended our Visa with immigration we thought that would covered the people on board as well as the yacht. However we got summoned t
o custom for this morning at 10. Long story short...we did not have to go to prison and did not have to pay a fine of $ 5000....but we still had to pay a fine of $250 plus the $ 200 fee on top.....that did not go down very well. After that we went for a small shop and then went back home. I am still feeling not much better and took my mothers advise to take it easy and to look after myself and went to bed for the rest of the day. Sven and the kids went out..so I had the boat to myself and rested in peace until they came back for bedtime.
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