What is absurd is that you can clear into Puerto Rico and you are cleared for the rest of the US, so long as you don't stop in a foreign country in between. On my last trip from Lauderdale to Tortola I went non-stop down the Old Bahama Channel to San Juan, called Customs and was asked why I was calling if I didn't stop anywhere; I guess I must sound like an honest person. So Dave, when you want to take that smokey old Detroit into the US, try clearing in Ponce. Bob Phillips, Another Asylum, Tortola, BVI