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Kurt we have to sit down with some rum in the Bahamas some time
And I'd like to join. Plus I can bring Bosun and Ms. Moose.
BYW Kurt, the other hassle free way is to go Northwest out of West End and enter through Ft. Pierce Inlet and just keep on going. I know of some locals there that do it all the time.
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We've checked in at St. Lucie airport 3 times. They're not real friendly, but they're quite lazy and never cause a problem. It's that 24-hour thing that's a PITA when I've got to get a slip, get a taxi to the storage place with my truck and then get to the airport. I asked last year if they could do LBO for us and they said "no". Which was B.S. They're now listed on the online scheduling for appointments for LBO, so we might hit them up next spring. However, if having LBO requires a float-plan, the heck with it. I've had about enough gov't involvement in my life.
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Kurt, we just used our LBO cards last week on our return. No float plan is required, just phone in, give them our LBO numbers and get an entry/clearance number, took less than 10 minutes although you do need your customs decal to use your LBO cards. I am like you, I am not filing a float plan with the Govt. One other nice advantage of the LBO cards is that we had a few other people with us on our return last week and I got there clearance on the same entry number. They still had to go to the CBP in person, but it was much quicker for me using my LBO card and just adding there names and PP numbers as passengers.
The CBP guys at the cruise ship terminal in Ft Lauderdale are very friendly and helpful, the guy even made a joke. I wanted to clarrify where my brother should clear in person and asked the CBP if he was physically at the cruise ship terminal and he said "no, I am in India". Ha Ha pretty funny coming from a CBP agent. You really should entertain changing your travel dates to June if at all possible, we have completed nine Bahamas trips during June and July and of the 18 crossings, only one time did we change our return date and that was by one day, and it really wasnt necessary.
The CBP guys at the cruise ship terminal in Ft Lauderdale are very friendly and helpful, the guy even made a joke. I wanted to clarrify where my brother should clear in person and asked the CBP if he was physically at the cruise ship terminal and he said "no, I am in India". Ha Ha pretty funny coming from a CBP agent. You really should entertain changing your travel dates to June if at all possible, we have completed nine Bahamas trips during June and July and of the 18 crossings, only one time did we change our return date and that was by one day, and it really wasnt necessary.
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Rick having a 50 footer that can cruise at 20+ knots makes the planning a bit easier 
. It certainly would have come in handy for us last Fall when we couldn't outrun the Tcells.
It's all a matter of luck when it comes to the weather and crossing. For us it's not much of an issue because we can wait for extended periods of time. I will say the odds seem to improve with June and July but then the odds of storms developing also improves. I think there have been two or three depressions that formed in the Gulf already. All it takes is one of those to boil up and head East and all the plans in the world aren't going to help.
. It certainly would have come in handy for us last Fall when we couldn't outrun the Tcells.It's all a matter of luck when it comes to the weather and crossing. For us it's not much of an issue because we can wait for extended periods of time. I will say the odds seem to improve with June and July but then the odds of storms developing also improves. I think there have been two or three depressions that formed in the Gulf already. All it takes is one of those to boil up and head East and all the plans in the world aren't going to help.