Leaving Cape Town for our Transatlantic. Fiasco! Immigration deemed one of us "undesirable"!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we will explain the issue that kept us locked in Cape Town for 10 extra days. We finally get the paperwork to leave and we have a fiasco getting out through immigration where one of us is deemed "Undesirable" and told they may never be allowed back into the country. Yikes!! It is insanity and it's so bizarre, it has to make you laugh.
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Craig and Janice (Even though Janice is not in this episode, she thanks you. haha)
Stop trying to imply that South African customs are fickle. Have you ever been through US or Australian immigration. I say this as a South African from Cape Town living in the UK. I personally have been through a lot worse elsewhere. Nothing personal but your problems are first world ones.
They weren’t the worst, I’m sure. But I wasn’t the one fingerprinted for be 2 days past due. Ha ha.
Cruising Off Duty i has help in Miami for half a day by immigration coming back into usa from Jamaica on a diplomatic passport. Been working in usa on official permit for 3 years already. So totally legal. Yet still held. All i got was a “ sorry mistake made”. If an American diplomat was so held in SA Hell would have been made. This man broke immigration laws so live with it
G'day Craig.
By any chance do you serve in a traffic division?
Back in the early 1970's I met one of my longest standing and best buddies at a State run Australian academy.
We were 16 year old cadets at the time and have been good friends since then and you remind me greatly of him.
He retired almost ten years ago at 55 after serving in traffic his entire career of around 40 years and specializing on motor bikes for most of that time.
They had a great pension scheme back then but naturally it changed for the worse in 1989.
My buddy now divides his energies between travelling about Australia with his better half in their RV, a bit of surfing, taking overseas trips (he loves Hawaii and has been several times) and restoring old motor bikes.
I left the job and did other things such as bush flying for a while then I re-entered service and remain a sworn member with the same organization but non-operational now due to chronic vocation-related injury.
I couldn't help wondering if you serve in traffic too since you seem to have a distinctive personality similar to most of the 'speedies' I have been acquainted with.
In fact you could almost be a doppelganger for my old mate.
Just curious.
Great to see the voyage finally starting. This should be fun!
Glad you are looking forward to it James. Thanks.
Your a cop, threaten to arrest and jail those miscreants. Just their singing is a crime against humanity.
Ha ha. I wish I’d brought my pepper spray. That would have taken their singing voices away. Ha ha.
Wow, that was one heck of a bunch of plastic bags!! Curious if the owner was astute enough to demand all the cardboard containers (cereal & pasta boxes, etc) be left ashore & disposed of?
Yes. We took everything out of cardboard before it came on the boat and froze everything that was in paper bags, like flour to kill anything that may have been living in it.
You mentioned already your preference for the X5 over the Bluewater 50. I watched those vlogs of your former crossing and remember you complaining about the slamming noise. Could you please compare the X5 and BW 50 briefly in terms of performance and comfort. Thx
Hard to say performance. 1st passage was mostly light winds. Both performed well. Less slamming on X5 for sure.
There is no way I would be able to travel with him. Annoying is an understatement
I am not sure if you are talking about me? or someone else on the boat? Not sure how to respond to this? LOL
Bloody bureaucrats! SACK THEM ALL!
I am pretty sure that they use an OBD11 style conection to monitor the engines though thats a bit of a ,isnomabecause the yanmar is a common rail engine it has an on board engine management computer this allows the engine to run as all the information the engine needs is held in this comp (AKA) ECM/ engine control module for those who have little about diesels you have mechanical single injection or common rail multipoint injection electrical injection
OK. I will take your word for all that. You have far more knowledge than I have on engines. I know how to check and change fluids and the basic understanding of how a diesel engine works on compression.
@@Bowmans-Woods I am also fully conversant with modern electronic controled diesels
Great video, Craig! Back to sailing and the cruising lifestyle, of course, the cruising lifestyle does come with its share of challenges. 😉 Looking forward to the rest of your crossing.
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Thanks Bill.
Great! I was cracking up when I heard, “I’m sick of that mountain!” Looking to the rest of your sailing adventure.
Good to hear. Thanks.
not necesserally the cops don't bother most of the time
Pnp.. I dought very much you would find wheavils in it... everything is fresh... actually we are more first world than what you think not including our gov.. lol.. but you could point your finger in any direction an Im sure you would find a mall or a supermarket in that 10 klm radius.. can you do that in Greese Italy Spain. Russia.. think about it.. yes you have allot more high rise buildings but we not that far behind the rock
Sorry, that is an old video. Did we say the food had Wheavils? If it was about taking off the cardboard off food packaging? That is just a good policy on a boat no matter where you buy the food. Cardboard gets soggy in high humidity. Its not about SA being less than a 1st world country
Understood about unboxing... to refrigerate for bugs.. my reference to PNP is that this store has a good reputation for its quality and could easily be compared to the quality you would find in Woolworths here in SA..thuss the chances for bugs are minimal..and stock rotation happen in the store so you expirey dates should be good..
Ever heard of a reusable bag?! Sheesh. Might as well start whale hunting.
Did we throw them in the ocean? No.
Walking around somewhere like South Africa with a police cap on is bold, possibly even illegal. It would be illegal in UK, Australia and New Zealand. The ottawa font is not readily visible compared to the POLICE text.
I like the idea of pre freezing the food to kill the bugs.
New sails on a spanky new sails are beautiful.
Ha ha. I never met a South African police officer. So I can’t confirm or deny your assertion. 😏
It’s not like that in North America. Police proudly wear police insignia. Caps, T-shirts etc. . It’s a Brotherhood and police like meeting police from other areas of the world. Who is going to care of I wear an Ottawa Police ball Cap? Not the police.
5:20 beer at lunch horn... righton!!! well... the call came 35 secs after that beer hit the tungue, ''you are clear to leave.... save journey!'' ..... ummmm it's passed beerThirty, we will wait for windier 2morrow lol or...... 1 person always Designated Driver???? ;)
5:27 YOU STILL HAVE EMPTY ROOM IN THAT CABNIT!!! THAT IS AWESOME!!! would the amount of food you brought with you equal a ...say... 5 person familywith 1 or 2 teenagers??????????????????????? or..... do you gotta get more creative with the storage with a couple teenagers... for referance only... would only be me, my other half and the doggie(s if we get more) lol so yea, lookin at cats... cuz, well DOGZ lol hahahah
10:36 is that the ''WIDER bimini top??? they said on some vid (may be this one, but i didn't think i watched it yet... have watched Thomas sailing an X5 (a couple diff ones I think now) but didn't see any comments so don't know if i watched lol the red line wasn't at the bottom of the vid yet lol
14:59 kite dude tole me one time, ''whitecaps are 13mph wind, don't launch your kite low wind set if there are whitecaps !!!'' is that tru out at sea too?? or that just local to San Diego Bay (down in the Chula Vista area by the border...)
That is South Africa, confusion is our modus operandi.
Ha ha. Good to know for future reference.
Lol, making life long friends. I love it.
Yes. My new friends made filming PG episodes challenging.
South African Bureaucrats...Screwed up.. The result of not employing competent people in jobs... On the other hand.. You can always enjoy the great hospitality and scenery on offer
The scenery was beautiful, that is for sure.
So daniel you say they screwed up by actually implementing the law? Wow
read Nelson Mandela's biography about SA gulags...thanks for the video - it was fun....
Yes, I’m sure it would not be nice. No matter what they call them.
@jimmy matho you have your answer in front of you - white people in Black Africa....what are they doing there? sort of like americans in the mid east, only instead of oil, they were stealing diamonds & gold & setting up colonies to control communication with India. History can be your friend - try it.
Fellow ottawa native! Small world 😄.
Loved watching this passage on such a gorgeous cat.
Well we finally get to see the leaving video!!! I'm not sure I would have gone for the upgraded engines. On one hand it is likely they would last longer, but probably wouldn't provide the fuel savings of the 50 hp models. I guess a fuel usage chart relating to relative speed vs price would have helped me make up my mind.
Ya. I assume the 80 will do the same speed at lower RPMs so I dont think the fuel would be much more. But the cost of 2 80HP engines vs the cost to buy 2 50or55HP engines would be very noticeable. But it is built into the price. They decided to only offer 80HP.
The guys from Cat Greatcircle once said they'd always go for the maxumim sized engines for the boat, just in case the power is really needed, e.g. to keep the boat pointed somewhere in bad weather. They have a Lagoon 52S with twin 110hp engines.
If you need to use your engines enough to worry about fuel consumption you are not skilled enough to have a sailboat !
Ya. Like an anchor, there is never a downside to bigger, other than price.
All that plastic bags... Foooo
Ya. Just how the store packed it for us.
Enjoying this video.
Met you last fall In Annapolis. We are actually in some of your videos.
The Exquisite that was there was probably the nicest boat.
Cool. Well we will be there again this year, so say hi if you see us.
At least they aren’t swearing like Sailors
Ya. I guess I should have said swore like drunken sailors. That would have been perfectly accurate.
When you go to 3rd world ports, always, always, always use a local shipping agent to process your paperwork. Save you the hassles.
Ya. Tamas seemed to know what to do, so we trusted it would all work out fine. Luckily it was not a big hassle.
Those guys seem like great fun. Crew matters.
That is very true.
You mean if I was a little more drunk. That was the difference there. Ha ha.
Good coverage ..can you let me know what dinghy was on the boat
It was a hard fibreglass one. Not sure the make but I am sure the brand is written on the boat. You will see it a lot in future episodes.
your Having a great passage , enjoy it , you will remember it for the rest of your life as a good time.
Yes. Memories for sure and episodes to rewatch when I am old and loosing my noodle. 😜
What's the source for those seats/chairs they were sitting in at 18:00 of the video? Are they blow up, I assume?
They are bean bag chairs.
I have been told several times that the maximum HP that saildrives are able to handle is 75hp. Is the X5 direct drive or perhaps a beefed up saildrive unit (yanmar, volvo?)?
Sail drive. Yanmar.
16:16 Yanmar controls...
I definitely won’t be sailing into South Africa.
That's too bad. We enjoyed our stay.
Is Tamas the boat builder? I thought he was from SA?
No. He’s the owner of the brand. Phoenix is the builder. Go watch the factory tour episode.
What did you like better, the Bluewater 50 or the X5?
X5. Clear winner in my book.
Is Sean out of North Carolina?
Yes he is.
Quite the crew! 😀
Yes. Quite the crew.
You are confusing Justice and law with what is practiced in south Africa, the newest banana republic of africa.
love your vlog!!!!
Thanks Alphabet. :-)
How was thw ventilation in your cabin?
It was ok. But wind from behind will always have issues going down raised hatches that open forward. No matter what boat that is tough to get breezes down below. The fan over the bed was well used.
Tamas has to to be the most fun Yacht builder with a great sense of humour but I think I would pay to get a yacht delivered rather than the grief getting it out of SA
Ya. If you were planning to circumnavigate the world anyway then leaving from SA is a good option but if you plan to stay in the Caribbean the whole time, if probably get it shipped there. It is a long passage.
It’s extremely easy to get out of SA at immigration. Just don’t break the immigration laws. Try getting out usa or any other country where you over stayed your visa or your entry permit. EU Citizen’s and US/ Canadian etc do NOT need visas for South Africa for visit NOT exceeding 30 days. You think you going over that because of a unavoidable delay, ask for an extension BEFORE you break the law. As simple as that.
Great boat! I am so pleased you enjoyed your stay in Cape Town, we love it here. Can’t wait to see more about your trip.
Yes. We liked it there. We didn’t go to any sketchy areas to see that side of things but that is just being smart.
Cruising Off Duty...yep, as you pointed out, don’t walk around with lots of expensive stuff showing, keep to the good areas, and if you’re enjoying our wonderful nature parks, travel in groups. Like you say, just be smart about it and you’ll be fine here.
20:38 is that an engine sound in the bed room? Is it a commond in cats or even mono? Sorry to ask, never sail before.. Have a nice Sail
Yes. Engine is behind that wall. Considering we were revving the engines to break them in that seemed quiet.
I'm sorry, but it's AWFULLY tedious to watch you go on and on about all the minor bumps in the road. Please stop!
That's kinda the running theme of sailing though. Problem, problem, problem, long sail.....something breaks, problem, problem and on it goes on. Shoot half the fun is complaining.