Buyer in US, Seller in China, Broker in Italy, Boat in Mexico

Talk about globalization:

• We live in Washington, D.C.
• 
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/boliston/1732262369/The folks selling us the Fuji 40 cruising boat left the US in 1996 to cruise Mexico before moving to Shanghai, where they will get their signatures for this transaction notarized Monday at a US consulate.
• The broker is a US citizen living in Mexico, but coordinating this sale from Italy, where he is marrying an Italian national.
• The escrow is with Marine Documentation Specialists in Annacortes, Washington, where we have been emailing our paperwork and wiring our money.
• The boat is in Mexico, but documented in the US.
• The seller offered to include a spinnakker sail with this boat; it is in Arizona.

--MR