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    Is your Australian sailboat insured for $100K or more? ATO is red flagging your tax return

    Fundamentally the only restrictions on investments is to self managed funds where the investments must be at arms length and of a commercial nature.  This is to prevent ones self managed fund from purchasing  "personal use assets". Outside of self managed funds, a fund trustee can pretty much...
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    Two crew die off West Australian coast during Bunbury yacht race

    Two crew members aged in their 60s and 70s have died off the coast of Mandurah after a yacht they were sailing in an open water race overturned 11 nautical miles off-shore about midnight on Saturday. Six crew members were aboard the 15-metre yacht Finistere competing in the 70th Bunbury and...
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    Sailors you'd like to punch in the nose

    Wheelchair basketball has ways to deal with that sandbagging because it is hard to play a team sport on your own.. Its been half a lifetime since I had any involvement, but I doubt things have changed much... Every player on the team is allocated a number of points based on the their physical...
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    Yacht overturned and crew rescued Port Phillip

    TV news update a few moments ago ... All five appear OK but are currently under observation at the local hospital. From The Age... Three overboard in boating mishap * Geoff Strong, Reko Rennie * January 6, 2009 - 1:22PM Two people have been rescued from under an overturned catamaran near...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    My guess is that he will float around till he hits 366 days -- this is a leap year after-all.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Yeah. I had to listen to that part about a half a dozen times to be sure. At one point I thought she might has been saying ... Reids record is to stay out at s not out of But i am pretty confident I got it right.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Interviewer: There was a bit of an issue when you first started out of New York wasn’t there a bit of a collision with a ship at one stage Soanya: Yes Interviewer:: Can you tell us a bit about what happened there Soanya: It was day 15 we were barely 2 out of New York and it was the beginning...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Your wish is my command... This asshat newbie had nothing else better to do on a Saturday night than to sit with a bottle of plonk and transcribe the interview. Note the transcription is aided by a couple of bottles of vino and no lights because my house is being rewired. So bear with any...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Yes.. But then if you have to describe Anne as having Argent sails, the sprouts as being a fine shade of Vert and all of that cheese as finely honed Or. But we all know, that to do so is to heap far too much class upon the likes of weed.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Thanks for the summary.. That's all I wanted. No you won't catch me out that quickly. I may be Newbie, but Naive I am not. Void Ho is etched permanently in my brain as a thing to avoid at all costs.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    You see, there is the rub. I spend 7 months reading this crap daily. Admittedly I didn't post. Came very close though. Nearly posted my guess of where the rendezvous would be -- no doubt you remember the inflatable globe. I turn my back for a moment -- ok a month or so -- and all of a sudden...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Ok let me amend my first answer A. Which vessel had a captain who at least had the balls to fund his trip with his own money rather than leeching off of others for fucking years and years without actually using any of the money to ... oh i don't know.... actually prepare for the trip I don't...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Where's the Jeopardy Music... A. Which vessel had a captain who at least had the balls to fund his trip with his own money rather than leeching off of others B. Who is weed's wife... no... mother ... no fuck I can't remember he's retrofitted his history too many times C. What would weed have...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Worm Pic - lots of discussion about what may or may not be trees in the background Maersk - The mirth and merriment of the thinwalled bowsprit Drywall screws - Hmmm propane (or was it butane) bomb in the making. Snow Shovel -- I want to know his technique if he can clean the bottom of Anne...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    I figured that would be the response that I would get. Lets See things I remember Faking GPS readings discussed at length with examples Convoluted Breeze is fixated with SHOUTING VERY LOUDLY Too many people are fixated by really bad poetry Christmas Elves were a sign of lowered hostilities...
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Maaaan. I watch this trainwreck from the start until late January and then go away for a while and then all the good stuff starts happening. Its just like watching the damned Cricket. Can someone point me to a page number in the thread where I should pick things up from.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    OK. Perhaps not quite that brief.
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    Couple Cruise for 1000 Days

    Can someone give me a short summary of what has happened in the last month or so. I couldn't be bothered reading the 100-odd pages that have been added since the end of last year.
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    Melbourne Big Boat Fleet

    Happened on the 3rd of November. Sorry, don't remember the name of the boat.
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    YO Ed-word

    I am glad I have your stamp of approval. Oh and for the record... I was just hoping that the homepage remained "California beach". I wasn't after "Quaker Pennsyvania".


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