https://forgeover.com/tags/bureaucracy/ Recent content in Bureaucracy on Forgeover Hugo en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:59:59 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/cruising/zarpe-dim-or-6-busses-for-6-tacos/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:26:19 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/cruising/zarpe-dim-or-6-busses-for-6-tacos/ <p>Today&rsquo;s goal was to obtain a zarpe. For those who haven&rsquo;t done this, a Zarpe is the official document that you get when you leave a country by boat. They aren&rsquo;t strictly necessary, but you can be rejected from entering your next port if you don&rsquo;t have one. We decided that a 2,800 miles U-turn was enough reason to jump through a few hoops.</p> <p>So armed with a thousand opinions and rumors, we headed over to the Capitainia de Puerto in Puerto Vallarta. The Capitainia gave us a bit of a hard time but ended up giving us the paperwork we needed. After filling it out and giving them the correct paperwork we were directed to Immigration and Customs at the airport. The customs officer was very polite and very confused. I seems that the fact that our boat was in La Cruz created a bit of a jurisdictional problemo for our new friends. Finally one of the customs officers pointed us in the right direction.</p>