Sentient,

Thank you for the offer. We know there will be legal challenges and hurdles and compliance we have to deal with and will need a maritime lawyer just generally when we have legal questions or issues arise or must deal with authorities. So there is that general need, and it would be ideal if we have someone in the Bay area to deal with once we relocate there.

But apart from that there are some questions more immediate. One of our biggest questions right now involves where expact-status begins.

We know that Blueseed, when there were a going concern, had about 30% of their applicants as US citizens who simply wanted to live offshore.

Our first question is whether simply living full-time outside US territorial waters (14 nautical miles) would qualify a US citizen for the first $85,000 tax exemption enjoyed by expatriates world-wide.

If so, that could become an awesome financial incentive for US citizens to move to our seastead, in addition to all of the other reasons one might have for doing so.

It would be less awesome if an expat had to live outside the US EEZ (200 nautical miles) in order to qualify for this tax exemption--wouldn't ruin my day or our business case, but still something we'd like a solid answer on.

If you could put me together with your brother, I'd love to talk to him and see what we can work out. Awesome that he's an ancap, if he's game to contribute might be a good fit, even without him sending us to another lawyer necessarily.

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