Black Panther 620 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 1 hour ago, harrytom said: They did have somewhere else to go like all cruisers. Back to their home port Why does this keep getting repeated when it is not correct? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrytom 242 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 6 minutes ago, Black Panther said: Why does this keep getting repeated when it is not correct? Please explain why it would not be correct. Maybe not home port but certainly persons onboard have a country of origin,so why not return there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sabre 328 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 2 minutes ago, Black Panther said: Why does this keep getting repeated when it is not correct? Because the media said it? Apparently they were supposed to know exactly how this covid thing would pan out including how every country would manage their border six months into the future as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 620 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 31 minutes ago, harrytom said: Please explain why it would not be correct. Maybe not home port but certainly persons onboard have a country of origin,so why not return How do you safely sail from Tahiti to Germany in July? What route do you suggest? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrytom 242 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 4 minutes ago, Black Panther said: How do you safely sail from Tahiti to Germany in July? What route do you suggest? I know nothing about offshore hence why I asked.knowing our laws why did they not try staying put it Aussie? Or do people see NZ as a soft Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrytom 242 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 Personally I do not see the problem arriving here if you can prove at sea over 14 days.But the law is the law admittity not a good one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 534 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 54 minutes ago, Black Panther said: How do you safely sail from Tahiti to Germany in July? What route do you suggest? Its not July, its October. In a month it will be November. You can go from Tahiti to Europe via Cape Horn, just like some french guy did back in the early 60's, or you could head west, across the top of Aust, across the Indian Ocean and take your pick of the Suez Canal or Cape of Good Hope. By the time you get to Good Hope, it will be Christmas and a few less storms. There is enough of the world's navies around Suez now for it to be safe as houses. Just as long as no one starts a war in any number of the countries in that general area... All you need is a reliable water maker, (either an RO unit, or a tarp with a hole in it...) and quiet a few tins of food. Plenty have sailed half way around the world none stop. The issue is probably more the wanting to, and the inertia of changing plans from where you actually want to go. Or the hope that some closer country will be reasonable and let you in. Especially if you offer to spend $50k at the first boat yard you find. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dutyfree 76 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 7 hours ago, marinheiro said: and yet there seems to be international flights continuing to arrive almost daily from India (rapidly catching up to USA's case count), almost always carrying at least 1 COVID case. Of the 12 cases announced today 10 came from India. go figure?? And the relevance of NZ residents or citizens returning from India is what? The reason we have quarantine is because NZers flying in can get here in 24 to 30 hours from anywhere in the world, as of right. I would like to see a boat get here in 24 hours. Funny how James Cameron and his film crew (filling their boots with NZ tax payer film subsidies) can get in. America's cup crews can get in (also for tax payer subsidised activities), but a few hundred boaties cant. And so what if a bunch of rich super yachts arrived, as long as they can support themselves (a standard requirement to come here as a tourist anyway), go through quarantine, just like the film crew, the americas cup crews etc and then spent money here?? What a bloody tragedy that would be. What are we scared of, 1m people suddenly sailing to the arse end of the earth, to COVID nirvana?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aardvarkash10 81 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 We are not scared of anything. Its called management. The COVID event is not finished. No-one can reliably say when that blessed day will arrive. In that situaiton, we could conceivably have people arrive here and then be unable to leave for an extended period - perhaps up to two years. Where would they go? Everywhere is some degree of closed. Movie crews arrive with documents stipulating their return to point of origin - its common for many work visas including some of staff I have. Cruising boats, not so much. They are germans. Germany has a well funded consular network. They were not in peril, they were inconvenienced at worse. Had they been in peril, their government would have stepped in. The world has changed folks. The dreamy little gypsy fantasy of moving around the ocean at whim is on hold. Get used to it. CarpeDiem and Fish 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sabre 328 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 5 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said: The world has changed folks. The dreamy little gypsy fantasy of moving around the ocean at whim is on hold. Get used to it. More due to paranoid hysteria than any reality. Fish 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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