New Zealand Immigration Officer Making Wild Claims

[Steve Pope]

The OP has responded to a parallel thread at <crew.org.nz/forum> with a reasoned response.

[lateral]

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Crew.org.nz &bull; View topic - Foreign boat not allowed to leave.

[sctpc]

Oh I hope he stays in NZ on page 3 Crew.org.nz &bull; View topic - Foreign boat not allowed to leave. He says he may head for Australia. Dont its cold and wet and our food is twice the price of NZ thats why they export frozen food to us.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by sctpc

Oh I hope he stays in NZ on page 3 Crew.org.nz &bull; View topic - Foreign boat not allowed to leave. He says he may head for Australia. Dont its cold and wet and our food is twice the price of NZ thats why they export frozen food to us.

Damn right... OZ is the most expensive country I've ever visited... beer $7-$9/bottle (small).. Tobacco $30/25Gms... Rum $43/bottle... $3 for 1 bludi capsicum... no wonder I got charged $95 for 1 hrs labour... all the sod did was drive to a caravan shop in his lunch hour to get a gas solenoid for the boat... total cost... $182...
Welcome to Darwin 1st port of call
People are great tho'... apart from 1 or 2..

[Lagoon4us]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Damn right... OZ is the most expensive country I've ever visited... beer $7-$9/bottle (small).. Tobacco $30/25Gms... Rum $43/bottle... $3 for 1 bludi capsicum... no wonder I got charged $95 for 1 hrs labour... all the sod did was drive to a caravan shop in his lunch hour to get a gas solenoid for the boat... total cost... $182...
Welcome to Darwin 1st port of call
People are great tho'... apart from 1 or 2..

Never a more truer post has been penned on this Forum, i'm believing Australia does rank as the most expensive without doubt

[salticrak]

Originally Posted by Lagoon4us

Never a more truer post has been penned on this Forum, i'm believing Australia does rank as the most expensive without doubt

It's crazy here, a pack of marlboro reds $ 20.00
Fees and charges everywhere, bastards....

[noelex 77]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

No, the only " legal" obligation arises from the SOLAS agreement , which is part of UNCLOS. This only applies to ships and specifically excludes leisure vessels and fishing vessels and ships under 300 tons.

Dave

OK thanks Dave

It would not change what I would do, but interesting nonetheless.

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by Lagoon4us

Never a more truer post has been penned on this Forum, i'm believing Australia does rank as the most expensive without doubt

I can tell many of you have never visited Denmark - or norway for that matter.

[RaymondR]

Bit of historical perspective here. I wonder what the surveyors, and NZ bureaucrats, would have thought of the vessels the original inhabitants used to get to and settle the place, and also incidentally just about all the rest of the vast Pacific Ocean?

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by RaymondR

Bit of historical perspective here. I wonder what the surveyors, and NZ bureaucrats, would have thought of the vessels the original inhabitants used to get to and settle the place, and also incidentally just about all the rest of the vast Pacific Ocean?

Obviously they thought they were just fine... that's why a Tiki 21 held together with string was allowed to continue its circumnavigation...

[goboatingnow]

. beer $7-$9/bottle (small)

Not good for you at your age!...

Tobacco $30/25Gms

Really not good for you at your age.......

Rum $43/bottle

not good for.......!

$3 for 1 bludi capsicum.

jeppers, you smoking them too ( or distilling them maybe...), you know its a member of the Nightshade family.....

not goo.......

Careful old boy, its dangerous out there .....

dave

[svseachange]

Aussie dollar is starting to self correct. It really should be no more than 75c USD. Down 15% since April to US92c. China, the mining boom and weak US monetary policy were propping up the Aussie. All of those are ending.

Australia and New Zealand going to be affordable cruising destinations again within a few years. The beer prices and quarantine fees won't seem so bad soon. Who knows, we might even start exporting used boats back to the US.

[Blue Agave]

Dude just leave. What are they gonna do follow you and tell you to come back when your outside of there jurisdiction?

[boatman61]

. beer $7-$9/bottle (small) Dicky Prostate... it helps me Peeeeeee
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Tobacco $30/25Gms
Gotta keep going... its the Tar that's holding me together...

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Rum $43/bottle
never read a 1st Aid manual.... Sterilise with Alcohol...


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$3 for 1 bludi capsicum.
Dried and seeded... soaked in Rum then shredded and re-dried... 80% pepper, 20% rolling tobacco to keep it together... roll and toke... keeps ya grinning all day... ask Jedi if he ever saw me on a Downer...

Careful old boy, its dangerous out there .....

Sorry mate... not old enough to remember when it was safe... you obviously do...

[salticrak]

boatie, when ya buggering off?