Scott, On my 2005 trip across the Pacific I had $25,000 in cash on board, and it was gone by the time we reached Australia. I had to beg the bank to increase the daily limit on my ATM card to pay for some of my repair bills incurred along the way. (Thank goodness I had a personal relationship with my banker...) There's no restriction on how much you can take out of the country. The only requirement is that you declare it. I did that while in Honolulu getting my outbound clearance. > I'm changing all our credit cards, bank accounts and other > financial records to reflect our cruising lifestyle. This > includes making a chart of what accounts exist, how they > are funded, verifying online access via unique usernames > and passwords and so forth. A question came out of this > exercise: How much cash is reasonable take on the boat. I > know you can take $10,000 out of the country at a time. > It seems that having a few grand around would be a smart > thing, in small bills divided up in different parts of the > boat (and written down someplace so you can find it). I'm > curious how much voyages use cash versus credit/atm cards, > and if those credit or atm cards have ever been hijacked? > > Thanks, Scott Bulger > Alanui, N40II, Seattle WA > _______________________________________________ > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water > World Productions, formerly known as Trawler World > Productions. > > To be removed from the PUP list send an email with the > subject "unsubscribe" (no quotes) to the link below: > > mailto:passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com > > Passagemaking-Under-Power Mailing List _________________________________________ Check your Email accounts at http://www.MyEmail.com Login from home, work, school. Anywhere!