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Got any heavy cruising boats coming along to race their homes? I'm cruising down the coast with the dolphins after returning from New Caledonia. My only handicap is my sailing ability.... oh and the rather full stocks of food, whiskey, water, beer, fuel, wine, books, toys... Good luck finding that on your racetrack! Maybe Wifey would like to go and visit her parents early for Christmas... and the lads could come over for a 'meeting' and we could inadvertently find ourselves at the start line... ...or maybe I'll just cruise out with my drone and click click... Cape Rodney says

Gps Puk for sale on TradeMe. Perfectly good, Just haven't used this since installing our fancy pants AIS system last year. Global Sat BU353 USB gps receiver Just thought I would tell you lot in case someone had been meaning get one... https://touch.trademe.co.nz/listing/view/1110169348

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story!

Well done Mike and thanks for all your efforts. I suspect you may have done some work on the 'manual' also - I must go and download that again and work through the instructions to get the most I can out of your services! Please persevere with Iridium Go! Unfortunately, most of the YIT services are no use to me because you can only use the Iridium Go! to access content from their own walled garden. This frustrates me no end, and makes a lot of bad words stream through my usually calm mind. Also, FYI: It took me a LOT of effort and technical wizardry to find the Chrome App. I'm

Thanks. From memory, the Rocketguides for both is something like $500, and what I really want is something with pages that I can relaxedly browse through. I get sick of staring at a computer screen - especially in the tropics. I have OpenCPN with SOME GE 'charts'. I haven't gone through the complex / laborious process of creating my own, but have sourced some from other people. I'll have another looksee while I still have Internet available. The legitimate source for OpenCPN charts is LINZ and has charts for FIji and New Cal. Most of my GE 'charts' come from here: http://www.svsoggypaws.

Yep, I've got all the Noonsite pages and a bunch of other stuff saved... but nothing beats actually browsing through a book... I've just noticed that the 2016 "Fiji Shores & Marinas" book is available for free from a few places in NZ. I'll pop in there and pick one up.

Heading off to the islands soon and haven't had the time to read up on where we are going... I'm keen to obtain some reasonably current cruising guide/s for Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. I have Jimmy Cornells cruising destinations and some online stuff, but nothing I can sprawl out on the deck and read on passage. If you have something lying around that you would be willing to part with let me know what you want for it. Thanks!

OK, long story short, you can sell your boat in New Caledonia tax free... MOST countries stipulate that you can not sell your boat without first importing it. New Caledonia doesn't. ie. You can enter the country on a short term stay visa, sell your boat to any non-New Cal resident, and there are no special hoops you need to jump because of your geography. Thats basically what I've been informed by a local yacht services agent in New Caledonia. Now you know what I think I know.

Thx for the info! I will read the guide and chat to Pete

Rumour and speculation has led me to believe that completing a boat sale in New Caledonia (privately) can be done with zero tax or duty implications. I've spent some time trying to verify this today and yielded nada. I'll be cruising the South Pacific again this year and intend to put the boat on the market after we leave NZ (where we are bona fide visitors). I thought that New Caledonia could be a good option (0% tax/duty), and Australia second best (15%)... and NZ a poor third (21%). (Incidentally, I'm talking about a 40' cruising cat) Anyhoo... can anyone shed light on t

I missed this thread the first time round... I've just spent the last hour reading through every post with Wifey... feeling inspired, and getting closer to living the dream! I love threads like this!

Wait what... W.T is Wild Thing...? My boat is called Wild Thing II... i wonder if they are related. Wild Thing II = German made TopCat (18' boomless cat)