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A mooring in Northland is going to set you back around half your budget. You will also be required to service the mooring every 3 years so there’s at least 1k/3y. There will be semi regular inspections of your hull by NRC for invasive bio fouling. If found you have to haul and clean at an approved facility of which there are very few. if you live on your mooring you will attract additional attention from NRC w.r.t. treatment and disposal of black water. You might need to furnish a plan and be able to prove compliance with the plan. As an example, AFAIR, there’s a local rule preventin

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I would also consider a look into Picton and Nelson. Picton and Nelson are home to a lot of yachts that are owned from a distance - owners live in Canterbury, Wellington, west Coast etc. This gets tedious pretty quickly and so the yacht sits, not being used but not actively for sale. Brokers in those locations will know the target yachts

The OP is relocating to NZ, and although originally from NZ (we assume a Kiwi) after such a long time, 17y, he might qualify to bring his ship import duty free. You can lurk around EU for 10y without paying VAT, but you have to leave EU at least every 18M.

Life is a journey not a race more so whilst seeking to purchase the right sail boat….

+1 for all of Dr Watsons points, the NRC/NDC seem to be quite assertive in policing environmental concerns with boats, e.g last two trips to the BOI they checked on my boats holding tank status but I have never encountered this cruising the Hauraki Gulf. I think once you are living full time on the boat you should expect to come under scrutiny sooner rather than later, not to say It cant be done but I would do your homework on the compliance picture first.

Don’t buy your boat while you’re here for only 3 months. Wait until you get back permanently.

Don’t give yourself a time limit. As you near on the deadline you will feel more and more under pressure to buy and the odds of buying a lemon are massively increased.

I would like someone to tell us what they are hoping to achieve and how. One adult female Fanworm produces 30,000 eggs once or twice a year. And they had millions of years of evolution to learn how to spread before boats were invented. Thus IMHO they're going to end up anywhere they can survive irrespective of what we do. Meanwhile they're all gone from our river after ther rains. Seems they don't like fresh/brackish water. Same reason Marsden cove is full of Fanworm and none at the town basin.

I find it ironic that they want to ping us the responsible boat owners while ignoring the commercial shipping coming and going with infestations on a hull 50-100 times the size of your average yacht. And they dump ballast water spreading the crap far faster than we could ever do. Not helped by the commercial pressures applied by commercial operators to continue to operate in council environments. I'm thinking it would be better to target the commercial end users; lets face it there are tens of thousands of them so paying cents on the dollar wouldn't be a big deal. The aver

Yep, we should maintain the berths we pay approx. 1 squillion dollars a month for. Great idea.

They tried it in the 90s -more money in pumping up real estate prices probably. Also boat mortgages -available overseas but not here.

The trick is not to sail it back to NZ. But if staying in EU need to be sure of vat status.

The topic of importing boats is well covered elsewhere on the forums, but there are many possible pitfalls and costs behind the sticker price.