Post by ding on Mar 12, 2016 18:52:56 GMT 7
Thanks Banjo. I've now downloaded the Rough Guide, and it is good.
The Philippines has apparently changed some of its policy on small boats that are considered personal property and put them in the same category as importing a motor vehicle that is not commercial so who knows what will happen in a few years. The alternative is to get Andy Smith down in the Cebu area to build me a 26 footer, but that would cost more than double what shipping my boat and paying the taxes, import duties etc, which are all levied on sum of the cost of the boat PLUS freight and shipping.
Then there's the resort idea. Took 13 months to turn it from a block of weeds and rock into something we can be proud of, and took me 3 years to get a web site up and running that I would have done for any customer in a few days before my disabilities. But the results are the same as I used to do for customers. We are usually the first listing on Google and other search engines and as long as they keep following my guidelines they will stay that way.
So as long as my relationship with the family stays the same as it has been for the last 4 or 5 years, I have a self funding home over there with no actual outlay for accommodation and utilities, and I have a 20 foot banca to cross 5 miles of water to go shopping.
Now I just have to live long enough to reach OAP. I seem to spend more and more time in hospital these days trying to get stuff fixed that should have been fixed after the accident in 2004. It took all this time to finally get the health system interested in trying to fix bits of me instead of just writing all of me off as disabled.
The Philippines has apparently changed some of its policy on small boats that are considered personal property and put them in the same category as importing a motor vehicle that is not commercial so who knows what will happen in a few years. The alternative is to get Andy Smith down in the Cebu area to build me a 26 footer, but that would cost more than double what shipping my boat and paying the taxes, import duties etc, which are all levied on sum of the cost of the boat PLUS freight and shipping.
Then there's the resort idea. Took 13 months to turn it from a block of weeds and rock into something we can be proud of, and took me 3 years to get a web site up and running that I would have done for any customer in a few days before my disabilities. But the results are the same as I used to do for customers. We are usually the first listing on Google and other search engines and as long as they keep following my guidelines they will stay that way.
So as long as my relationship with the family stays the same as it has been for the last 4 or 5 years, I have a self funding home over there with no actual outlay for accommodation and utilities, and I have a 20 foot banca to cross 5 miles of water to go shopping.
Now I just have to live long enough to reach OAP. I seem to spend more and more time in hospital these days trying to get stuff fixed that should have been fixed after the accident in 2004. It took all this time to finally get the health system interested in trying to fix bits of me instead of just writing all of me off as disabled.