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Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 11-08-2020, 15:12
Replies: 132
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Kiwis are a law abiding people and will follow the example set by their leaders... same as first time around... :biggrin:
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Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 09-08-2020, 21:58
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

A thought... most of the boats in the South Pacific are probably in French Polynesia... I have several friends up there just now. They don't really have a problem... esp if they have an EU...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 09-08-2020, 21:19
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Have a Captain Cook at this......
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/423167/covid-19-nz-travel-bubble-with-cook-islands-could-be-in-place-by-end-of-year-ardern
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 09-08-2020, 18:12
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Restricted entry of yachts into NZ has nothing to do with keeping Covid out.... its all about the money...

An exemption process has been announced, led by NZ Marine and focusses on the exemption...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 09-08-2020, 17:53
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Raymond... what a very good idea... as you suggested it... you get to go first....
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 08-08-2020, 00:59
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Five months ago... March?
The puddle jumpers were well on their way by then.... and many... the Europeans ....were already a long way from home.

And if you were still in, lets say, Ecuador or...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 07-08-2020, 15:10
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

An easing of border closure.. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122380097/tick-tick-podcast-jacinda-ardern-says-border-may-open-for-essential-skilled-migrants
Doesn't look as if Jacinda is...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 15:08
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Not sure what this has to do with letting cruisers into NZ... however... movements are restricted in Melbourne to 5 km from your home unless you are heading out to bang your girlfriend.... sigh.......
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 14:36
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Consider the case of most of these people ..... Panama or Ecuador to FP in March April is what? a month or 6 weeks at sea.... then 4 months in a Covid free zone.... then another month at sea to NZ or...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 14:17
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Meanwhile, Queensland with a similar population to New Zealand, far fewer cases and 6 deaths v New Zealand's 22 may be letting yachts in from the SoPac

Stats
Qland...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 03:34
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Hang on.... your Foreign Minister and Deputy PM may well be gone by year's end.... but while acting in that position he has tried and been rebuffed by Australia... Your PM has tried and been rebuffed...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 01:56
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Where is the nuance here
'An air bridge between New Zealand and the Australian states of Queensland and Tasmania could've been underway a long time ago if it weren't for the 'jealousy' of other...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 01:51
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

But wait, there's more!

NZ wants to open borders with Nuie and the Cook Islands...
...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-08-2020, 01:39
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Meanwhile NZ government upset they can't open borders with Australian states..

'But Peters says despite a strong desire from New Zealand to open up to the safer parts of Australia, their central...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 19:12
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Much of the rest of the world still has large numbers of new cases.......

The South Pacific? .. not so much.

There has been talk of a South Pacific bubble.... that has been a bit quiet...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 18:43
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Maybe so Maybe not.... best to ask a kiwi.

I seem to recall people caught in NZ in March were treated quite well... don't think anybody was forced to leave

We live in interesting times ... we...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 18:12
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

You can keep your yacht in NZ for 2 years...
Fiji is open....
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 14:07
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

The vast majority of the yachties that arrive in NZ are well funded and are simply wanting to do what they would have been doing anyway...

They ( foreign yachts )pump a massive slab of cash into...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 01:32
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Meanwhile back on the war front... for you young pups...
The Battle of Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane

I seem to recall there was a 'passing trains' incident in Qld as...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 01-08-2020, 00:37
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Well, with some Australians it goes back to when they were over paid, over sexed , and over here.... but they are now pretty well all gone.

Now JPA.... well that's a long story.... dating as it...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 31-07-2020, 22:40
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

In March , when the poo hit the fan, most if not all of these yachts would already have been strung out across the pacific from Panama to Fiji... hardly a case of 'casting off into the face of...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 31-07-2020, 22:38
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

Hmmmm... one rule for arrivals by air, another for arrivals by sea.

Having been fishing off South Georgia for about six months, spent a day or two on a covid free island, and then almost a month...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 31-07-2020, 17:35
Replies: 132
Views: 14,074
Posted By El Pinguino
Cruisers seeking humanitarian refuge in NZ

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12352827

'Hundreds of boaties stranded in the Pacific are making a humanitarian appeal to be allowed safe refuge in New Zealand from...
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