AIT Around In Ten

Thanks folks

Regarding the name, we have one and all will be finalised in 2 weeks time.
My partner, Anthony De Richelieu from Dubai, is coming to spend 2 weeks with me and then we will finalise a mountain of details AND the name

Anthony when you read this - looking forward to have you here pal !!!!
I will post pics of Anthony at the TEN - he is a young man not an old fart like me

 

Beware of making landfall in Oz with an AIT boat . . . ​

 

Found some info and pictures of the above Happy II . . . ​

 

I would love to know what actually happened.

"There he had a series of misadventures with the Australian Customs and lost her to them."

????

 

I don't know what actually happened to Happy II in Oz.

I came across the story because of this this post, and I don't know more about it than posted in the above quote.

Jay Benford who wrote it and designed Happy II is a serous designer and I have no doubt in the qualities of Happy II.

My guess is the Australian authorities thought she was too small to be safe . .

 

I'm sure that size plays an important role in the OZ maritime laws today but they are VERY fussy about insects in wood and VERY fussy about import duties and taxes etc.

It will be nice if somebody in OZ that has knowledge of the laws could give us some info and a bit of insight to what the laws could have been then around 1980 and then now.

We also have to be careful what we read into this - Customs not Water police? I am not sure what this really means.

 

Happy II was built by a Canadian with the aid of an aluminum builder in ± 1983 in Nouméa in New Caledonia which was French overseas territory at the time, and is a special collectivity of France now. The boat was only transiting Australia, so no import duties were indebted there I think. Also she was built of aluminum which doesn't suffer from insects, so no problems there. That's why safety doubts by the authorities remains my guess. But for the designer it's no fun to say there are safety doubts about the design, even though those doubts would be unjustified. I think that's why Jay's description of the reason of the seizure is quite vague, but this is only me speculating on the few things known.

 

well can you believe this

Now that's crazy

http://maritimemuseum.com.au/exhibitions/vessels/happy-ii/

 

Good find Manie

I can't understand why import duties were indebted for transiting Australia . . .

 

Boatdesign.net ---> Happy​

 

Some info and pictures of Happy II in the Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane.

-- Link 1 -- Link 2 -- Link 3 -- Link 4 -- Link 5 --​

On the first two links the pictures can be clicked for enlargement.

 

Note to self.
Skip OZ.

 

I hope that the folks that are down south will enter the conversation and hopefully shed some light on this.
come on guys where are you when we need you, you don't have to be a fan of silly stupid tiny boats, just share your "legal: knowledge with us, please

Angel I'll repost this to Manie's ten if we cant get them to reply, maybe that might help

 

ahh

read the thread, he broke his visa restriction, and THEN had to pay an import duty. I am pretty sure if you are just transiting through you dont have to pay import duty.

 

Peter I think you are right

this paragraph was written badly

http://maritimemuseum.com.au/exhibitions/vessels/happy-ii/