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Originally Posted by Steve Pope  Question for Dana-Tenacity, How do you get around the Cat 1 regs for leaving NZ without an SSB, or do you have one but don't use it? |
Apologies, just noticed this.
The first time I left NZ was in '78 - radios hadn't been invented back then. The next two boats were purchased outside NZ, sailed outside NZ then sold outside NZ.
I've also done a few deliveries leaving from NZ, if the boat was registered outside NZ, no problem (on these I would take a satphone just so i could call my wife to say hello occasionally as she doesn't usually accompany me on deliveries), on NZ registerd boats they would have them but generally i would leave them turned off.
When I choose to sail away from NZ again on my own boat I have a scheme for avoiding the cat 1 nonsense which I'll tell you about after I've done it.