Boat wanted Australia

[undercutter]

Originally Posted by chrisr

but if you do go ahead, and decide to import a boat into Oz, don't forget duty and GST...

good luck !

cheers,

chris

You do not have to import the boat for 3 years unless you are a citizen or a full time resident of OZ.


Anyway, he is going to the Solomon Islands.

[JPA Cate]

^^^^
Airplanes go there.

We have someone with unknown experience, on both a schedule and a strict budget.

You want to take a 20 footer to the Sollies, be my guest. The trip back from there was fairlly taxing in a 36 footer. 'Twas why I steered him to larger boats.

Ann

[MrChris]

Originally Posted by chrisr

could not agree more. suggest to think / plan very carefully before taking on something you may not live to regret

but if you do go ahead, and decide to import a boat into Oz, don't forget duty and GST...

good luck !

cheers,

chris

Jim, i am not about to rush or step out too fast, just maybe a little far. The work is the point of my trip, but i am not driven by any timetable except that which i set. I am not a total novice, i have worked on, with and under the sea most of my life and already have a range of skills from navigation to splicing rope and wire. My sailing is limited to a summer playing with a hobie cat but i have no intention of sailing into the sunset until i know how to do it.

[rogue trader]

Originally Posted by MrChris

Thanks for the very solid advice, but i am a marine civil engineer on a mission, a feasibility study for an islands project. I need to familiarise myself with the area of study and run some local tests etc, so this trip is part pleasure and part work with a schedule. I need a cheap enough boat that will sleep me and get me from place to place at least as far as the bottom of the Solomon Islands, further if I feel safe enough.

lookup gumtree australia plenty of reasonably priced cheap yachts,