October 2009 eBook all pages (free PDF, 36.6 - Latitude 38
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CHANGES<br />
via the internet <strong>all</strong> the way into and out<br />
of Australian Customs. It’s <strong>all</strong>owed him<br />
to save more than 25% on things like<br />
shower pumps.<br />
All this helps explain why we got a<br />
phone c<strong>all</strong> the other day from a fellow<br />
in Perth, Western Australia, inquiring<br />
about the original mast for Profligate<br />
that we have for sale. When we expressed<br />
surprise that it could make financial<br />
sense for him to buy our mast, which<br />
is currently located in Santa Barbara,<br />
and ship it half way around the world,<br />
he assured us that it very well might.<br />
After <strong>all</strong>, he told us that his other main<br />
option was to buy a Selden mast made in<br />
Denmark. Couldn’t he have a mast made<br />
in the sailing centers of Sydney or Auckland<br />
and and shipped to Perth for much<br />
less? "Not necessarily," he replied. “It’s<br />
often less expensive to have something<br />
shipped to Perth from Europe than it is<br />
to have it trucked here from Sydney.”<br />
Could this be the solution to your<br />
health insurance costs? “Some Americans<br />
are moving to Mexico in order to<br />
get IMSS, which is Mexican Social Security<br />
health insurance,” writes Philo<br />
Hayward. Philo did the Ha-Ha aboard<br />
Page 160 • <strong>Latitude</strong> <strong>38</strong> • <strong>October</strong>, <strong>2009</strong><br />
Philo, seen here with his favorite guitar at his<br />
place in La Cruz, has IMSS health insurance.<br />
You might want to get it, too.<br />
his Mendocino-based Cal 36 Cherokee<br />
in ‘00, and despite buying a music venue<br />
and bar in La Cruz on Banderas Bay,<br />
continued cruising across the Pacific<br />
until he sold his boat in Vanuatu. For<br />
LATITUDE/NICK<br />
the last seven years or so, he’s run the<br />
extremely popular and communityoriented<br />
Philo's bar and music studio.<br />
In his last newsletter, he refers to a<br />
September 1 USA/Today article about<br />
IMSS, which is Mexican social security<br />
health insurance, and which can be<br />
purchased by Americans with the proper<br />
visa. Although the coverage is good<br />
only for treatment in Mexico, it is said<br />
to cover everything — including tests,<br />
medicines, x-rays, eyeglasses and even<br />
dental work. There is no deductible, and<br />
it apparently costs a flat fee of less than<br />
$300 a year. Now that’s what we c<strong>all</strong> affordable<br />
health care! John Skoriak of the<br />
Marine Exchange in Sausalito reports<br />
that there are a variety of other low cost<br />
health insurance and health care options<br />
in Mexico.<br />
Putting some speed into their cruising!<br />
Bruce and Nora Slayden of Sisters,<br />
Oregon, did the ‘04 Ha-Ha and ‘05<br />
Puddle Jump with their Island Packet<br />
485 Jamboree. But we heard they were<br />
on the Bay over the Labor Day Weekend<br />
with their new — and much faster<br />
— ride. She’s the Gunboat 66 Sugar<br />
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