Time to dust off the Yellow

[CCJ]

Back to the 2 hr wait after the phone call :disgust:

 

[capnsensible]

Back to the 2 hr wait after the phone call :disgust:

Be interesting to see how many people remember that!

 

[CCJ]

Be interesting to see how many people remember that!

Progress Eh ?????

 

[capnsensible]

Progress Eh ?????

Yeah back to sat about on a cold damp yacht, drinking the duty frees whilst waiting for the Customs bloke to not turn up and being too wobbly to drive home.

 

[Boathook]

Back to the 2 hr wait after the phone call :disgust:

When I tried it I left a message on an answer phone! They rang back after 2 hours …………...

 

[Seajet]

And being too late to get a meal or pint - or if they did turn up, stand by for one's ' hospitality ' to be drunk Sahara dry.

 

[Daydream believer]

When I remember it we just shone a light into his office at Burnham as we tied up & he came out in his launch, we filled in the forms & all was hunky dory.
Except for the time he caught my crew with 4 boxes of king Edward cigars that I did not know was there, so the barsteward stripped the boat & it took the best part of a day to tidy up the mess !!!!
Now I would not bother & i doubt they would even care or have the time to care. Have to run silent on the AIS though

 

[johnalison]

Usually at Ramsgate they came round the arrivals and you were serviced fairly quickly. On one occasion I had to go and find the bloke who gave me a lift back to the boat in his car. We were chatting happily until we got back to the boat, when he stopped chatting and went into formal mode. It was like flipping a switch.

 

[Topcat47]

As there aren't enough customs officers to police the Ferryport at Portsmouth, what are the odds that one will turn up in Gosport even two hours after you rock up.

 

[Seajet]

Well which would you rather do, check grotty lorries for illegals, or trundle about in a nice harbour going on yachts and being given a stiff glass or two...

 

[sailorman]

As there aren't enough customs officers to police the Ferryport at Portsmouth, what are the odds that one will turn up in Gosport even two hours after you rock up.

Im told by a reliable source that HMG have recently employed another 1000 to train up by March

 

[Yellow Ballad]

Be interesting to see how many people remember that!

Enlighten the youth! I'm guessing you had to notify customs and wait on the boat for 2 hours after entry?

 

[macd]

Im told by a reliable source that HMG have recently employed another 1000 to train up by March

So the source wasn't HMG, then?

 

[sailorman]

So the source wasn't HMG, then?

No but a Westminster Civil Servant

 

[capnsensible]

Enlighten the youth! I'm guessing you had to notify customs and wait on the boat for 2 hours after entry?

Yup, see the original post. This of course would also mean a walk to the nearest phone box with the correct change. It would probably be raining.

When. I sailed Service Yachts, you were also required to phone in an arrival report. This often involved walking to the nearest phone box with the correct change. As this needed to be in (generally) Fench centimes, a visit to a bar first was often necessary to get that correct change. It would probably be raining.

 

[Daydream believer]

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[steve yates]

I doubt I'd even bother. I have no ais so how would they know which port I came from?

 

[Seajet]

Not heard of radar or night vision then ?!

In about 1979 we were teenagers sailing my A22; those were before the days of solar panels or wind chargers for normal coastal or cross - Channel cruisers and the outboard had no charging coil, so it was a case of lugging the battery to garages to get charged up - a ' total loss ' system, which was quite common then.

We were sailing back across Lyme Bay at night with all lights inc nav turned off to save power, relying on keeping a good lookout ourselves.

About a third of the way across the bay from Brixham a helicopter - also without lights - turned up and hovered close overhead, I could recognise the sound of a Lynx.

They were obviously using night vision to check us out, our mast having shown up on shore radar.

Judging by that it's not quite as easy for any boatload of illegals to approach UK as the Daily Mail might have you believe.

 

[Yellow Ballad]

Yup, see the original post. This of course would also mean a walk to the nearest phone box with the correct change. It would probably be raining.

When. I sailed Service Yachts, you were also required to phone in an arrival report. This often involved walking to the nearest phone box with the correct change. As this needed to be in (generally) Fench centimes, a visit to a bar first was often necessary to get that correct change. It would probably be raining.

Bloody hell, did then not have an app for that back then?

 

[Seajet]

The only app for such things then was if one carried an apprentice stowed in a cockpit locker to retrieve and send out, not such a bad idea.