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Re: St. John Customs Dock Fee
[Re: CDavis]
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03/14/2016 09:25 AM
03/14/2016 09:25 AM
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GlennA
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Heard about this last year but you are the first I have heard being charged. USVI government is hurting for cash so ports authority added a $10 ferry departure fee and a docking fee to clear.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: St. John Customs Dock Fee
[Re: GlennA]
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03/14/2016 10:04 AM
03/14/2016 10:04 AM
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This has been in place for at least a couple of years. The first time I cleared in during a trip in 2014 I was even charged for "docking" my dinghy. That's why most people use the dinghy dock next to the Park Service building and walk over one block.
s/v Snow Dog - Leopard 46
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Re: St. John Customs Dock Fee
[Re: jagmansr]
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03/15/2016 04:44 PM
03/15/2016 04:44 PM
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Customs made us pay the dock fee last year, we tied our dingy up to the very western edge of the concrete dock. I guess they watch the dock closely, hard to notice a 10ft dingy way down on the end.
Prior to that, never charged, done it about 3 times before.
Anyway, this year (Feb 2016) we went to the dingy dock over by the ferry dock and walked over. Not sure if this is technically OK, but I have read a lot of posts where others do this and had not read about any problems. Tying the dingy up on the dingy dock north side of ferry dock works best for us, as we usually like to look around Cruz bay after we clear in. US customs have always been easy/smooth for us. BVI seems to take longer, but with the NP Fee and other fees I guess that is to be expected.
BTW, I think they charged us $6.66 too, I wanted to pay $6.67 but no go....
We leave the boat at Lind Point ....
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Re: St. John Customs Dock Fee
[Re: Twanger]
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03/16/2016 08:03 AM
03/16/2016 08:03 AM
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I heard that D.Trump is going to double the dock fees, if voted in... Just for that.. Vote for the other guy! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/canada.gif" alt="" />
Capt. Russell
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Re: St. John Customs Dock Fee
[Re: letsgosailing]
#90046
03/16/2016 09:23 AM
03/16/2016 09:23 AM
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letsgosailing said: I heard that D.Trump is going to double the dock fees, if voted in... Just for that.. Vote for the other guy! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/canada.gif" alt="" /> Inappropriate political content......Please, Please, Please don't turn TTOL in to a political debate.
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