On our recent trip from Toronto to Lakeworth. it was our understanding that we only had to report in at each CG District. We cleared in Oswego and were given a "Notice of Violation" further down the Hudson a few days later for not reporting each stop within the same District. We were then told we had to report in at each Port and were given a list of phone numbers to call. We received a second Notice of Violation in South Carolina for not reporting when we anchored and were told we had to call in each time we stopped whether we went ashore or not.
Most of the phone numbers given were wrong and we spent hours on the phone with people who didn't give a damn. ...
"Why are you calling us " was heard on several occasions.
"This number cannot be reached from your area" was a frequent recording.
"Our office doesn't handle that" was common and they would give us another number that was also .... wrong !
Most often we got voice mail so left a message and went on our way (hope that was ok). We are now in the Bahamas and dreading re-entry to the US. Thousands of Canadian cruisers who spend our retirement funds in the US appear to be not wanted anymore. We are seriously considering storing our boat in Bahamas this summer just to avoid the nonsense of buying multiple phones and phone packages so we can call in to a completely disinterested party whenever we stop to spend money on fuel.
I've been traveling the US East coast since 1994 and never experienced anything like this before, The American people are awesome but the system is beyond help and I may not be back.
Where did you get these wrong numbers? I've found the numbers on CBP's website to be very reliable.
Here are the professional service managers.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/customer-service/professionalism-service-manager
You can also go to the map of ports and then click on the city for the numbers for the field operations offices.
Now, what I'd really recommend is the Small Vessel Reporting System.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/pleasure-boats-private-flyers/svrs
You can register online and schedule an interview. Then you'll get a boater registration number and SVRS password.
This is really no different than we experienced going in and out of Canada. We checked in at every Canadian port. We also checked back in each time to the US. No different than our travels in other countries where we had to check in to each port. I would suggest the SVRS if you're doing much traveling.