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08-05-2013, 11:52
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Registered User
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Location: palmwoods qld australia
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
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Originally Posted by Blue Crab
I think you're preaching to the wrong choir here, Cap. "Tricky Visa issue" has an ugly ring to it that after 10 years experience, you surely saw coming.
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Actually no, not in a thousand years did I believe i would be put thru the ringer like I have. I am still dealing with the relevant authorities and hope for a decision that will be in my favour.
If this does not happen, and after living and working here for 10 years, whilst building a catamaran i get told to bugger off, then i have a problem. The problem would be to get the boat out of here documented and thru customs.
cheers paul.
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08-05-2013, 13:41
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
Some people who don't feel the need to follow the rules like to consider themselves "free-spirited."
Most folks who choose to follow the rules, find out soon enough that these "free-spirited" bums have spoiled the perception of the local population towards outsiders, making things more difficult for everyone.
When you're in someone else's backyard, home or country.... you follow their rules. Simple.
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08-05-2013, 13:58
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Registered User
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Location: palmwoods qld australia
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
Yes, to a point though.
I think humans have evolved to have a healthy suspicion of strangers. What the stranger can do to live up to the locals perceptions as a good guy may depend on so many factors.Seen to be doing the right thing is not a sure fire way of ingratiating oneself.
Often times the locals perception of authority is not one shared by most westerners.
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08-05-2013, 14:04
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
Showing up uninvited, with no money and no work permit... is a "sure fire way" to piss off the locals.
bum 1 (b m) n. 1. A tramp; a vagrant. 2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
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08-05-2013, 14:08
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#21
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Registered User
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
Damm right mate, bloody sailors come over 'ere take our jobs,take our wimmin.
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09-05-2013, 02:10
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re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
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09-05-2013, 02:36
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Moderator
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
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Originally Posted by Bash
I have a friend who throws really great parties two or three times a year. Unfortunately, she has a rule that no one is allowed to wear shoes in her house. Although I think this is a goofy rule . . .
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This "goofy rule" is the custom in a large part of the world. After living for a couple of decades in a country where that "goofy rule" is the norm, wearing shoes in the house now seems really gross and unhygienic to me. Suum cuique!
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18-05-2013, 10:18
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
Not quite sailing but, more free spirited adventure.
Across Europe in a Paperboat on Vimeo
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23-05-2013, 05:14
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#26
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2013
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
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Originally Posted by salticrak
Actually no, not in a thousand years did I believe i would be put thru the ringer like I have. I am still dealing with the relevant authorities and hope for a decision that will be in my favour.
If this does not happen, and after living and working here for 10 years, whilst building a catamaran i get told to bugger off, then i have a problem. The problem would be to get the boat out of here documented and thru customs.
cheers paul.
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Or document it with your home country
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23-05-2013, 05:35
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All to often the difference between "free spirit" and "me me me" is a fine distinction.
That said, if you prefer not to bothered come to the Philippines. The locals are truly "living in the moment". Nobody seems to care about anything but a meal at the end of the current day. Enlightening for me. Distressing for many westerners with plans and goals.
Asked a Filipino if their word "mamaya" was the same as the Spanish "mañana". He said that the Filipinos don't have a word that expresses such urgency!
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23-05-2013, 05:48
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Senior Cruiser
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
These type of threads always bring Janis Joplin and 'Me n Bobby McGee'....
"Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose...."
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It was a dark and stormy night and the captain of the ship said.. "Hey Jim, spin us a yarn." and the yarn began like this.. "It was a dark and stormy night.."
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23-05-2013, 06:02
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#29
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
yeah, boaty...concur....
i do it with low fixed income and a friend does this on no income...we have a symbiotic relationship wherein he loves my boat and i gain from that...and there is adventure. win-win. to do list shrinks in length and i have a walkabout pal who drinks ....
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23-05-2013, 06:05
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: sydney, australia
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Posts: 1,309
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Re: Free Spirited Sailing Life
well i always think the planning involved in dealing with customs and immigration looks pretty damn small compared to the planning involved in getting a bloody boat organised for an ocean crossing - that free-spirited stuff goes out the window pretty early on
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