United States of America

Zanshin was used as a demonstrator at the 2011 Annapolis Boat show and was commissioned there. I picked her up and sailed her down to the Caribbean with 2 friends.

Since then, I’ve been back once with Zanshin. After getting damaged in Hurricane Irma, I shipped Zanshin to Newport and then motored back south to Annapolis where she was repaired and recommissioned. Then I made the same pilgrimage back south.

The east coast is a wonderful cruising ground that I hope to explore in depth sometime. While the USA might be home of the free and land of the brave, foreign boats are view with suspicion and the USA has the strictest of cruising rules of any country that I’ve been to. Every boat movement, nominally even from on slip to another, need to be called in at the end of the day to CBP. Noncompliance can cost thousands of dollars and the cruising permit getting revoked.