Traveling to pacific side by boat

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

looking for advice  , I am looking to travel via sail boat self-contained,  I have traveled few years back very south America  i did not carry a passport i mostly docked for resupply several days , is it possible to do that in Mexico cost waters.

Sounds like an  invitation for disaster. Why would one do this? Take a passport if you go to another country or else you are likely to get deported, fined or put in jail. Seriously, this is just delusional.

I agree with the previous post. Have sailed extensively around the Pacific and a circumnavigation.
Passport is a necessity along with a courtesy flag of which ever country you enter.
You need to contact the port authorities by radio on entering port fly a yellow quarantine flag  and cannot disembark before the customs agents have come on board, checked passports, issued entry visa and searched the vessel for potential prohibited items.

Sounds like good advice. I do passport  was in a  mishap few years back off coast in BC lost all paperwork a nightmare to deal with the Canada port people my embassy came through  but the stress and recovery  wasa lot.  Just a t trying to figure a better way incase the unexpected Murphy law pays a visit

03/13/22

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Thanks for your advice I see you are a wealth of knowledge. Can you advise me on something , I am sort-of retiring with fixed-income locked in and I  remote work consulting.  I am looking for a place offsore to expat to , I know a little of Mexico coastal towns. But what about the pacific country's my rig is stable and well equipped for long travel solo, I want a new adventure and I am 60 ish so  any place come to mind to you for me to look into? Thanks

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

Sounds like good advice. I do passport  was in a  mishap few years back off coast in BC lost all paperwork a nightmare to deal with the Canada port people my embassy came through  but the stress and recovery  wasa lot.  Just a t trying to figure a better way incase the unexpected Murphy law pays a visit

Taking safety measures in case of loss of documents is a completely different subject to whether one can travel without  a passport. One should concentrate on how to expedite the replacement of a passport rather than trying to dream up unworkable strategies to travel without one. So while this is a bit off-topic, a good subject for travelers.

I've traveled extensively in third world countries. I usually make multiple photo-copies of my passport, any visas for the countries I'm visiting plus my credit card and driver's license, I put the copies in various place on my person and baggage so in case of loss or theft I hopefully have one left. I also put such documents on an encrypted  flash-drive and while I don't use any cloud services, I have the documents again as attachments to draft copies of an email on my email account. With the digital storage I usually add some things like my travel insurance policy documents.

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

I  remote work consulting

How would that work, consulting from an offshore boat in international waters? Via satellite internet links???
You will not be legally allowed to do any such work while in harbour or on land - unless you have a work permit for that respective country (and pay taxes there, as your fair contribution to the host society).

beppi wrote:

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

I  remote work consulting

How would that work, consulting from an offshore boat in international waters? Via satellite internet links???
You will not be legally allowed to do any such work while in harbour or on land - unless you have a work permit for that respective country (and pay taxes there, as your fair contribution to the host society).

Good point, beppi. It seems obvious that our Scorpio friend is a "cowboy" plain and simple. He means well, no doubt, and we must wish him well, but he's starting from way behind the actual starting-line! I know nothing about sailing around the world in a boat, but I do know something about the reception he is going to get, wherever he drops anchor!

Thats rude, guess you never meant remote workers   or anyone that works for firms in other countries   humm,  son my cowboys days were spent on a horse not a boat lol

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

Thats rude, guess you never meant remote workers   or anyone that works for firms in other countries   humm,  son my cowboys days were spent on a horse not a boat lol

No insult intended, old man. "Cowboy" in the offshore business - which I used to be in - simply means "unprepared and naive'; it has no unsavory connotations. It seemed reasonable for me to label your original question and subsequent ones as "cowboy". My younger days were spent on horseback too, and I would never bad-mouth them.

My son was a "cowboy" in his time - unprepared and naive. For a while. This is his story, at the link below  (for all visiting this thread who might be interested).

https://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2014 … eston.html

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

guess you never meant remote workers   or anyone that works for firms in other countries

Remote workers still have to follow the law of the land they are in, including work permit and taxation rules. Fact is that most countries do not have a visa category and thus do not welcome or allow foreigners to work remotely for foreign companies (freelance or not). Also, the chance of being double taxed is far higher than escaping tax altogether - unless you dodge your obligations, whoch would make you a criminal.
Anyone whodoes not know or acknowledge this can righty be called "unprepared and naive" - or "Cowboy" in Gordon's words. (You could also call them "digital nomads", because 99% of those fall into the same category an only abuse the lax enforcement of rules in some places.)

So who said I don't pay taxes,  ya all make a lot of assumptions from a small statement I remote work,  1st off i rceive retirement from my country. Ops tax is paid there,  next if I do any of my remote work in port yes I am obligated too pay  there  which  I do as well claim it on my retirement which ops I do. When I am offshore  or in transit and work there is no host country to pay dues or as you say my fair share. So do not call me a criminal , boys jump from 0 to 80 in a assumption as a new member  here I think this site sucks being attacked when just coming on board gives me pause for even joining.

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

So who said I don't pay taxes,  ya all make a lot of assumptions from a small statement I remote work,  1st off i rceive retirement from my country. Ops tax is paid there,  next if I do any of my remote work in port yes I am obligated too pay  there  which  I do as well claim it on my retirement which ops I do. When I am offshore  or in transit and work there is no host country to pay dues or as you say my fair share. So do not call me a criminal , boys jump from 0 to 80 in a assumption as a new member  here I think this site sucks being attacked when just coming on board gives me pause for even joining.

Look, Skorpy: you may well be right; you may well be misjudged. But be fair: your original post was so illiterate as to give the clear impression that you didn't have a clue what you were into. Illiteracy is (unfortunately) often misjudged. People tend to think that if an illiterate can't be bothered to fix, or isn't capable of fixing, his grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc, then he isn't worth taking seriously. It's just the way of the world, man. Most of us would be illiterate if we wrote in any language other than the one we grew up with. In my travelling days I spoke the most ungrammatical German in history; and never even dared to put it in writing. I'm sure I was misjudged too.

So what I'm saying is: you just have to live with the handicap, and take what comes. My son is dyslexic, and he had problems too. So I understand where you're coming from. Hang in there.

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

looking for advice  , I am looking to travel via sail boat self-contained,  I have traveled few years back very south America  i did not carry a passport i mostly docked for resupply several days , is it possible to do that in Mexico cost waters.

Nothing illiterate here. I don't edit a post for a novel,  nor does most people unless paid bloggers.
And yes dyslexia is a prominent problem for  many , I survived 30 years of military with it tell your son to hang in there its overcomable.  Cheers.

We make assumptions based on the majority of similar cases we see on this forum. Sorry if some of it does not apply to you!

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

1st off i rceive retirement from my country. Ops tax is paid there,

Your host country will decide whether your (worldwide) income is taxable there or not. Most countries want this money from their residents - and don't care whether it is alread taxed elsewhere. If your home country taxes income of non-resident cititens, you can only hope that there is a bilateral tax treaty that removed double taxation - otherwise you will be charged twice!
(If your home country is not taxing income of non-residents, there is no reason to have your pension taxed there!)

Scorpiontimothy wrote:

next if I do any of my remote work in port yes I am obligated too pay  there  which  I do as well claim it on my retirement which ops I do.

First you need to get a visa that allows such work, which is difficult in most countries. On short-term (visit/tourist) visa, you are not allowed any work in all countries I know of.
We do write such answers for good reason: It is almost impossible to do what you have in mind without breaking the rules!