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26-10-2012, 06:42
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#76
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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26-10-2012, 07:49
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#77
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 9' Fatty Knees.
Posts: 10,488
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by boatman61
Interesting chat with Dept of Immigration & Citizenship today on the phone...
Called to enquire about an extention to my visa and was asked for the reason which I explained... was gobsmacked when they asked if I was 'Boatman'...
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Gets ya to thinkin what other agencies are lurking on here... 
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26-10-2012, 08:24
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#78
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: north carolina
Boat: command yachtsdouglas32
Posts: 3,113
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
Gets ya to thinkin what other agencies are lurking on here... |
Yea makes ya wonder!..
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26-10-2012, 08:32
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#79
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,796
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
Gets ya to thinkin what other agencies are lurking on here... |
doesn't the NSA record all cell phone and internet traffic?
where's my aluminum foil before they get into my head 
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26-10-2012, 08:33
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#80
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 530
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by Celestialsailor
Gets ya to thinkin what other agencies are lurking on here... |
Just because the department has about 8000 computers does not mean that they lurk, lol
Maybe some one in the department is a sailor and has brought it to the attention of management, or maybe some one had already been in contact with the department .... or contacted the ministers office.
The fact is that it would be bad public policy for some one to try and use the department and the imigration laws to gain a finincial advantage. Boatman will find that he finds friends in strange places while in Oz.
But i dont think that the Wicked Witch of the West will end up with the ruby slipers
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26-10-2012, 10:08
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#81
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: La Paz
Boat: 41' Custom CC Cutter
Posts: 647
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
Damn small world of boats. Amazing, Phil. Things are looking up. 
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26-10-2012, 11:44
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#82
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,194
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
As my Gran would say... 'There's nowt so strange as life...'
Mind I'm not surprised.. CF has popped up in Panama Nuku Hiva, Samoa and Vanuatu... usually in bars but a couple of times in local authority.. why should OZ be different.
Anyway... got to get it yet.. one call does not a resident make.. or guarantee a work visa...
Actually she said 'Nowt so strange as folk'... but I was feeling poetic so I gave myself licence... RODL..
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26-10-2012, 17:26
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#83
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: La Paz
Boat: 41' Custom CC Cutter
Posts: 647
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
I find my poetic license good for free drinks and tokes in most bars and private gardens. And, on behalf of those of us who like you in spite of your bad personality and vices, and those of us who like you because of them, I'd like to give a cheer for Wotname! Hip Hip Hooray friend. Your providing Phil with safe anchorage in this storm is a noble deed and the wheel of karma will reward you. 
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"The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end." ---Aldous Huxley
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26-10-2012, 17:30
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#84
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: on board, Australia
Boat: 11meter Power catamaran
Posts: 3,648
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by speakeasy
I find my poetic license good for free drinks and tokes in most bars and private gardens. And, on behalf of those of us who like you in spite of your bad personality and vices, and those of us who like you because of them, I'd like to give a cheer for Wotname! Hip Hip Hooray friend. Your providing Phil with safe anchorage in this storm is a noble deed and the wheel of karma will reward you. |
Hear hear Wotname
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26-10-2012, 18:54
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#85
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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26-10-2012, 21:09
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#86
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
Boat: In the hunt again, unknown
Posts: 1,331
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Boats, it seems like things are moving along! glad to hear it.
Since your former employer uses CF, I wonder what they are thinking about all of this.
WotName, if you ever need a place to crash in the U.S., you certainly have earned it and we'll leave the light on for ya and a tinny or two in the reefer!
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26-10-2012, 21:54
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#87
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 3
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Originally Posted by boatman61
Dear Mod's... if you consider this inappropriate... please delete this post...
If any members in WA have seen this boat could you please inform me as my lawyer wishes to post a writ on its bridge...
Its called ELLE BO... but at the moment (last seen) it just has ELLE on the transom...
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Boatman - I live in Perth and have this yacht firmly etched into my memory. When I find it, do you want anything in particular done to it ? Get my meaning ?
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27-10-2012, 02:11
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#88
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Fethiye Turkey
Boat: Lagoon 440
Posts: 2,954
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
Not a problem, good luck....Frank & Viv
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27-10-2012, 07:07
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#89
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Eastern Shore, MD
Boat: Camper Nicholson 44 Ketch
Posts: 2,060
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
Now now, the boat brought Boatman safely to Aus...There are no bad boats, only bad boat owners..... 
Of course Phil might feel differently about this particular boat.
Chris
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat Pizza
Boatman - I live in Perth and have this yacht firmly etched into my memory. When I find it, do you want anything in particular done to it ? Get my meaning ?
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27-10-2012, 07:12
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#90
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 18,702
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Re: Don't Pay The Ferryman...
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Originally Posted by Fat Pizza
Boatman - I live in Perth and have this yacht firmly etched into my memory. When I find it, do you want anything in particular done to it ? Get my meaning ?
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Nooo, he might end up owning it.
Pete
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