"Ed Gordon" wrote in message
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It's longer than I thought. How about this? Buy the Macs
on the US east
coast and then go to Australia via Cape Horn. That way it
would be
westerly winds the whole way. Just stay on the edge of the
roaring 40s
so it wouldn't be too rough and it would be a milk run the
whole way.
One could re-provision in South Africa. Going across the
Equator south
of the Windwards would be the only light wind area.


never heard of a shipping container, eh genius?

"Scotty" wrote in
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never heard of a shipping container, eh genius?



I saw a picture with a Mac26M inside a shipping container. It fit real
good. But it would probably cost ten or twenty grand to ship a Mac to
Australia. You could sail it there for probably 500 bucks worth of
groceries and drinks.


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Cheerio,
Ed Gordon
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"Scotty" wrote in
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never heard of a shipping container, eh genius?



I saw a picture with a Mac26M inside a shipping container. It fit real
good. But it would probably cost ten or twenty grand to ship a Mac to
Australia. You could sail it there for probably 500 bucks worth of
groceries and drinks.

Well that's how they ship 'em - to NZ anyway. It's about five grand
BTW, IIRC.

--
Duncan

"Duncan McC (NZ)" wrote in message
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"Scotty" wrote in
:


never heard of a shipping container, eh genius?



I saw a picture with a Mac26M inside a shipping
container. It fit real
good. But it would probably cost ten or twenty grand to
ship a Mac to
Australia. You could sail it there for probably 500
bucks worth of
groceries and drinks.

Well that's how they ship 'em - to NZ anyway. It's about
five grand
BTW, IIRC.


per boat, or per container?
I was told it would be more than 10 grand, BUT, that's from
the east coast.

SBV

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"Duncan McC (NZ)" wrote in message
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"Scotty" wrote in
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never heard of a shipping container, eh genius?



I saw a picture with a Mac26M inside a shipping
container. It fit real
good. But it would probably cost ten or twenty grand to
ship a Mac to
Australia. You could sail it there for probably 500
bucks worth of
groceries and drinks.

Well that's how they ship 'em - to NZ anyway. It's about
five grand
BTW, IIRC.


per boat, or per container?
I was told it would be more than 10 grand, BUT, that's from
the east coast.

IIRC, it was the container shippping cost only - San Fran to
Christchurch, NZ I think.

ie a pack the boat in yourself job, and unpack - and hope you don't get
customs requesting a fumigation etc etc. Actually, they probably would
want the container fumigated.

--
Duncan

"Duncan McC (NZ)" wrote in message
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IIRC, it was the container shippping cost only - San Fran
to
Christchurch, NZ I think.

ie a pack the boat in yourself job, and unpack - and hope
you don't get
customs requesting a fumigation etc etc. Actually, they
probably would
want the container fumigated.


Oz and NZ are real fussy about the wood that comes onto
their island. It must be heat treated, and stamped so, or
they will insist on fumigation. Even stamped wood still gets
bored for testing frequently.

Of course, there is no wood on a Mac, just one big Clorox
bottle .

SBV