Sailing a Japanese boat to Canada. Am I in a catch-22?
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Lowell Sheppard: The 71-year-old 'Never Too Later' who traded life in Tokyo for a solo odyssey, transitioning from Pacific ambitions to the Japan Solo longevity project.
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I have spent countless hours, no, days and weeks trying to figure out how to legally sail my bot Japanese Registered sail boat offshore and to Canada. I naively thought that I could buy the boat of my choice and sail off into the sunset. Not so. At least not in Japan. This video is simply a summary of what I have learned so far. I realize that it is a unique subject and most will not be interested but in case there are others who are considering buying a Japanese boat to take offshore, I thought I would compile my thoughts in this video.
While I am trying to navigate the Japanese and Canadian rules viz a viz pleasure boats, I am sailing the coast line of Japan experiencing its wonderfully secluded and beautiful harbors seeing Japan from a different perspective. I have cycled much of Japan`s coastline so to see those challenging hills from the `comfort` of the sea is fun!.
I hope this video is helpful to some and is not meant to discourage but simply inform and perhaps enable someone to have an easier process of it than me.
Here are the links mentioned in the Video
www.tspsjapan.org
www.jmra.or.jp
www.jci.go.jp
www.konpira-consulting.com
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