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22-12-2016, 13:36
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Apparently the frog men who put the limpet mine on the Rainbow Warrior didn't have work visas either! Aussie Customs might be showing a bit of solidarity with their Anzac mates.
Dave
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22-12-2016, 14:01
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Portugal/Med
Boat: Comet 41s
Posts: 6,140
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by Ann T. Cate
Surely, the Vendee Globe guys will be able to help arrange a short stay work visa for these men. A little bit unthinking to have not done it in advance, but it is hard to get things done in the last few days before Christmas.
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Ann
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The boat is already on the cargo ship:
"In short, the customs officers were calling for the team to have work visas, which were impossible to provide in the timeframe allowed. Our time there proved to be incredibly complicated, but fortunately we were able to count on the help of Philippe Péché, who has been based there for a fair number of years and that enabled us to remove the mast and keel within the allotted time as the boat had to be loaded on the ship by Friday 16 December at the latest,”
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22-12-2016, 15:10
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#18
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Posts: 10,280
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Great news Polux
I am sure they will be happy to get back to their families for Xmas
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22-12-2016, 18:37
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#19
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Boat: Island Packet 40
Posts: 6,496
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by bletso
Yep, but not here in the U S of A. We'll let anyone in to do what they will just so it's on the cheap.
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Yes but?
I hear wall building is all the rage in Texas these days?
Could have been because they were French.
The problem probably occurred because they asked a question, asking any sort of bureaucrat of any race or nationality a question is quiet often an invitation for the answer you don't want.
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22-12-2016, 19:11
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2015
Boat: Amel 54
Posts: 329
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by boatman61
To much Argie Bargy huh..??
Must be the fact its an English boat..
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Why would they treat it differently because it's an English boat? I thought the English and Australians were close.
The Australians are basically English rednecks.
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22-12-2016, 19:26
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#21
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
Boat: TBA
Posts: 338
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by Van Der Beek
Why would they treat it differently because it's an English boat? I thought the English and Australians were close.
The Australians are basically English rednecks.
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This reference was made to an English boat with issues in Argentine not Australia, you needed to read the posts above that one????
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22-12-2016, 19:33
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: vessel sold at LAKES ENTRANCE to a local. Currently nursing my 93 Y/o mother in Sydney. Next boat probably will be bought in the U.S.
Boat: triton 721 24' x 9' 1985 Cutter rigged.
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by aclmck
This reference was made to an English boat with issues in Argentine not Australia, you needed to read the posts above that one????
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Give him a break. Clearly, Van der isn't particularly well educated.
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22-12-2016, 21:44
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#23
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Boat: Amel 54
Posts: 329
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by aclmck
This reference was made to an English boat with issues in Argentine not Australia, you needed to read the posts above that one????
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Haha my mistake we all make them, been a looong day.
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22-12-2016, 22:56
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 20,632
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Quote:
Originally Posted by bletso
Yep, but not here in the U S of A. We'll let anyone in to do what they will just so it's on the cheap.
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Or they go on the marry Carrot Top.
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A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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23-12-2016, 01:22
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#25
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: palmwoods qld australia
Boat: wharram tiki 26
Posts: 739
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by arsenelupiga
one should be aware that life in AUS is about creation of jobs to protect property prices, and therefore banks which are, we are told, the pillars on which the whole system rests.
you will get allocated experts from india to handle the boat.
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So very true mate,i'm afraid to say.
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23-12-2016, 01:43
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#26
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Boat: Island Packet 40
Posts: 6,496
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Quote:
Originally Posted by Van Der Beek
Why would they treat it differently because it's an English boat? I thought the English and Australians were close.
The Australians are basically English rednecks.
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We love our English brethren except when they manage to put together a cricket team of South Africans and beat us.
Sun bronzed Ausies are impervious to sun burned necks.
Ever since Crecy and Agincourt a bunch of Frenchmen turning up to remove an English boat is an immediate cause for suspicion.
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23-12-2016, 04:41
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#27
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 110
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by brianlara 3
Give him a break. Clearly, Van der isn't particularly well educated.
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Yeah well . He may not be well educated but at least his country doesn't have
Sir Les Patterson as cultural attache .
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23-12-2016, 04:57
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#28
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 530
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
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Originally Posted by bustermaw
Yeah well . He may not be well educated but at least his country doesn't have
Sir Les Patterson as cultural attache .
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But there would appear to be a certain family resemblance between Sir Les and a certain President Elect.
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23-12-2016, 13:20
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: vessel sold at LAKES ENTRANCE to a local. Currently nursing my 93 Y/o mother in Sydney. Next boat probably will be bought in the U.S.
Boat: triton 721 24' x 9' 1985 Cutter rigged.
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Quote:
Originally Posted by bustermaw
Yeah well . He may not be well educated but at least his country doesn't have
Sir Les Patterson as cultural attache .
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BUSTER, the only country where our much loved Cultural Attache' is sent is England. He was designed to appeal to Englands hundreds of thousands of pissheaded football rednecks.
You love him because you relate !! !!
Retort ??
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23-12-2016, 13:27
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: vessel sold at LAKES ENTRANCE to a local. Currently nursing my 93 Y/o mother in Sydney. Next boat probably will be bought in the U.S.
Boat: triton 721 24' x 9' 1985 Cutter rigged.
Posts: 922
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Re: More problems with Australian Customs
Quote:
Originally Posted by justwaiting
But there would appear to be a certain family resemblance between Sir Les and a certain President Elect.
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O M G ! !
Yes I see it. Bloody hell, our hero is of Deutche ethnicity.
The P/elects family name was DRUMPF.
Could Sir Les REALLY be Donnies cousin ?
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