Hello from Singapore

[Kevin R]

Hello all,

I’m a noob and have never owned a boat. But I’ve always enjoyed being out on the water, whether in a canoe or a cruise ship, or anything in between. It’s been a lifelong dream to retire on a liveaboard boat and explore parts of the world. At first the dream was always a sailboat, but lately has turned towards power boating.

I’m Canadian, my wife is Singaporean, and we’ve been living and working in Singapore for 25 years. Retirement is approaching and we are beginning to look seriously at the boating dream. But the situation is a bit complicated. We would like to remain domiciled in Singapore for tax reasons, but spend much/most of our time on a boat in Canadian/US waters, with occasional trips to other countries and back to Singapore, with medical insurance where necessary to cover us wherever we are.

So there are a lot of questions I’ll be asking in due course about purchase, registration, taxes, insurance etc for non-residents. I saw the post by bonobo which covered some of this, which was hugely helpful.

Anyway, nice to meet you all, and I’ll see you on the various boards. Have a good day!

Regards,
Kevin

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Kevin.

[Nauticus]

Hi and welcome from Ontario Canada [emoji1063]

[Steven UK]

Kevin
This is funny... Both my wife and I were born in Singapore, myself in Changi and my wife in Jurong. I'm British and my wife Singaporean. We are currently in Minnesota but I keep taking off to go sailing. I have just crossed the Atlantic and I'm preparing to get myself around South Africa and head back to Singapore. I am a Green Card holder in the US so I can't have a 'coast guard' registered boat. it has to be state registered just like a car. there are also a lot of foreign registered boats in Florida for tax reasons. Anything I can help with just ask.

Regards Steven (Khensu)

[Adelie]

Welcome.

I would suggest updating your profile with your boat make & model or “Looking” in the "Boat" category. This info shows up under your UserName in every post in the web view. Many questions are boat and/or location dependent and having these tidbits under your UserName saves answering those questions repeatedly. If you need help setting up your profile then click on this link: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ml#post3308797

I would happily help more if the link above is not enough.

[Don C L]

Welcome aboard Kevin! I have some fond memories, (and crazy stories,) of visiting Singapore many years ago. Is the Changi yacht club still there?