Canadians – the place is Lousy with Them

After going the entire month of July without seeing any fellow Canadians, we ran into 4 sets of them all in one day. First at the mooring in Lucice, then leaving Lucice there was a Jeanneau 50 with about a dozen people from Vancouver of all places. We said our hellos and goodbyes in a few minutes powering beside each other. Then coming into Split anchored in the harbour was a Canadian boat and when we docked at the Quay two fellows Dave and Eric helped us … turns out Dave is from Victoria and Eric from Brantford – they’re brothers here waiting for the arrival of Dave’s Nordhavn 47 trawler being shipped from Southampton to Split. It will be offloaded from the ship and then they’re off to Turkey. They’ve been doing this for a number of years – and it turns out Dave bought former Royal Van Commodore Tony Liebert’s Norseman 447 from him and named it Segue …. So the Nordhavn is Segue II. They’re off to south Turkey flying back home in mid-September. We had a nice chat and they warned us about spending too much time in Greece, as the Greeks have a rather arbitrary way of assessing taxes on yachts that spend more than a short period of time (e.g., 30-60 days) in their territorial waters. The last thing we need after springing the boat from Croatia is to have it impounded in Greece while we litigate over 25% of its value being taxed in Greece as we try to pass through.