Don't know about you, but a $4,000 fine would really hurt me.
gary
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-15/coronavirus-queensland-sailboat-sneak-nsw-fined-gold-coast/12541756
Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.
Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.
With modern surveillance , my guess is not many.
Probably easier to monitor the Southport Seaway than a backroad in Goondawindi
gary
Select to expand quotegarymalmgren said..
Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.
With modern surveillance , my guess is not many.
Probably easier to monitor the Southport Seaway than a backroad in Goondawindi
gary
As EC31 said the smart ones arent coming in the seaway. Theres plenty of places not that much further north they could come into. Pin bar, south passage, brisbane via cape moreton, mooloolaba. Hopefully no one gets any ideas after reading this though. 
What if you were to leave NSW and head out into international waters then head to Qld ?
Dont forget to log onto Marine Rescue and tell them you destination.
The smart ones are not pulling into Southport.
That's true , but they have to sail past Southport.
I think there is a co-ordinated effort to monitor and stop border crossings and the V.M.R at Southport will have their eyes and ears open
(as they always do!).
Select to expand quotegarymalmgren said..
The smart ones are not pulling into Southport.
That's true , but they have to sail past Southport.
I think there is a co-ordinated effort to monitor and stop border crossings and the V.M.R at Southport will have their eyes and ears open
(as they always do!).
A good camera and lens ( foot long) looking down the leads entering a commercial port can look about 5 miles out and read the name/ numbers on commercial ship. Any wind will make the lettering near unreadable. A yacht a mile or so out will be clearly recognisable.
'm not sure that Southport would be that yuppie , but the commercial ports are.
The issue of being able to prove how long you have been in QLD is the deciding factor, ie receipts from marinas, bank transactions etc and they are checking ! Let's face it they've been keeping an eye on drug and people smuggling for a while now so it wouldn't be hard to check boat rego then go and ask for proof of how long you've been in the state mate, please explain why your last bank transaction was in Ballina 3 days ago ?
If you weren't there before covid you needed a boarder pass to cross the boarder even when it was open, and there's a record of that. So you see that the powers that be aren't as easily fool as we might think
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The issue of being able to prove how long you have been in QLD is the deciding factor, ie receipts from marinas, bank transactions etc and they are checking ! Let's face it they've been keeping an eye on drug and people smuggling for a while now so it wouldn't be hard to check boat rego then go and ask for proof of how long you've been in the state mate, please explain why your last bank transaction was in Ballina 3 days ago ?
If you weren't there before covid you needed a boarder pass to cross the boarder even when it was open, and there's a record of that. So you see that the powers that be aren't as easily fool as we might think
How about if your yacht had Australian registration? Do you think they could get around it then?
Na Australian rego is another thing altogether it allows the vessel to visit other countries without being exported from one county then imported to the next. You still have to have state rego. And if you where coming in from overseas well the officials are allways there anyway
And they keep trying it on. In the last week, a luxury yacht heading to QLD for maintenance work was supposed to quarantine onboard but decided it would go unnoticed if they put ashore in NSW, and another VIC yacht was caught of Wollongong if I remember correctly. Good thing the water authority's are proably a bit to busy to be concerned with 17a
