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15-08-2014, 12:47
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Wherever our boat is; Playa Zaragoza, Isla Margarita
Boat: 1994 Solaris Sunstream 40
Posts: 2,449
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Fun, wow! And what the heck are 'Garcia 45's'?
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15-08-2014, 12:51
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Australia
Boat: Lagoon 400
Posts: 3,650
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Great stuff Phil, 35 degrees in Foz tomorrow (we'll be sailing past from Porto to cascais)
bon voyage
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15-08-2014, 13:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Florida/Alberta
Boat: Lippincott 30
Posts: 9,904
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
How is 13 miles of the coast territorial waters? Or is the boat flagged French?
Just wondering about the jurisdictional reason they could "invite" you to their party.
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15-08-2014, 13:03
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Home at Warsaw, Poland, boat in Eastern Med
Boat: Ocean Star 56.1 LR
Posts: 1,841
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
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Originally Posted by Southern Star
Fun, wow! And what the heck are 'Garcia 45's'?
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Garcia is a yacht yard. They built veeeeeeeeeeeery good boats in aluminium
http://www.garcia-yachting.com/
Cheers,
Tomasz
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15-08-2014, 13:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 5,983
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Sounds like just another chapter in a natural story tellers life Boaty...you sure do have some wonderful adventures and you tell a fine story about them!
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15-08-2014, 13:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Narragansett Bay
Boat: Able 50
Posts: 3,139
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Garcias are always reliable
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15-08-2014, 13:37
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
Boat: Island Packet 38
Posts: 31,351
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
They put stuff back?
Only run in I've ever had, CBP in the US tore everything apart dumping it in a large pile in the middle of the floor and left.
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15-08-2014, 13:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Sanibel, FL
Boat: currently a power boat :(
Posts: 249
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Always enjoy reading your stories from abroad
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15-08-2014, 14:12
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, cruising in Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,434
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Boatie,
Maybe there was something about the trip plan that alerted Customs. Not your personal profile, of course, but something about the yacht's history......
And good on 'em for putting everything back!
Cheers, and happy sailing,
Ann
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15-08-2014, 14:33
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,594
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
you should have been using your SPOT then they would never have found you.....
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15-08-2014, 14:37
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
Posts: 20,304
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
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The only drugs found were Senna.. Ginseng and Paracetamol.. the owner being a helpful Aussie said.. "If you tell me what your looking for maybe I can help..!!!"
The Customs guys looks at him and says.. "Drugs.." I curled up in the cockpit with a fit of the giggles....................
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Given up the ciggies and booze eh Boatie
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Glad it worked out well - tidy boat, good anodes, repaired sail and a great story to add to the Delivery Skippers Lore.
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15-08-2014, 14:38
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Nearly an old salt
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lefkas Marina ,Greece
Boat: Bavaria 36
Posts: 22,801
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Don't you just love Customs...
Had the same thing happen to be off Brest a few years back. It was very late in the season for a biscay crossing ,( November) which I suspect triggered the interdiction. They first flew a spotter place to identify us.
Dave
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15-08-2014, 16:08
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,154
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Phil, ya gotta stop flipping the bird to all the "official" boats that pass you by. Despite the uniforms, those guys are real human beings, almost like a sailor, and their little feelings get hurt when you make obscene gestures towards them. Perhaps you could take a hint from Monty Python and "fart in their general direction" in order to express your feelings. If done at a typical distance, they may not notice, and then not persecute you.
But really, sounds like it came out ok for your and the owner.
Cheers,
Jim
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15-08-2014, 16:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central California
Boat: M/V Carquinez Coot
Posts: 3,782
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Re: Don't you just love Customs...
Makes one appreciate boating in-home (as in Carquinez Strait) waters. (Photo taken from the subsequently burned Martinez pier, with Benicia, first incorporated city in California as well as state capitol, in background.)
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