Strong winds and a letter of warning in the Cook Islands
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Our feelings about the Cook Islands are a bit torn.
Aitutaki was beautiful! So was Rarotonga, but because of all the bureaucracy we did not see much and basically just wanted to sail away from that port as fast as possible. We even got a letter of warning, since we did not send an email before we arrived..
It is not always easy to sail around the world (all sailors do not have internet onboard).
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Very enjoyable thank you for doing it in English fun to see the journey and thanks for sharing 👍👍
Than you for watching! We are not a lot people who speaks Swedish so we thought it would be easier in English ☺️
Excellent shots of actual sailing footage thank you!
Thank you so much 😊
Love your videos.. thank you .. very watchable 🌷 safe journeys and fair winds..
Thank you so much!! ☺️
I'm sorry you had the bad memories from Rarotonga,it all sounds very confusing,almost corrupt,charging you so much money.
Anyway,your next stop looked much more pleasant.
Nice to see you again,Hilda seems to be going well,no more problems 👍😊
So are we, but in the other hand. We loved Palmerston, which was our next and last stop in the Cook Islands 😊 We were in the Pacific in almost a year and sadly, in some countries we felt that there was a lot of corruption. Of course we want to pay, but we want to know that the money goes to the right purpose.
We had the problems a few moths after this episode, but we are now in the Philippines and everything is fine. Thank you! 👍😊
You seemed to handle those big waves as if they were nothing. My crew is always too scared in those conditions. Great video.
"Det är bara att bita ihop" as we say in Sweden. It basically means: There is not much to do. You just have to go with it. 😀
Awesome adventure!!! Looking forward to seeing more of the South Pacific and your journey.
Thank you Mike! We hope to meet you one there some day 😀
Excellent. Loved the footage. The anchoring sounded scary. Wendy and I once motored around for 4 hours until daylight when we didn't know exactly where we needed to be. That was the longest 4 hours I can remember.
Thank you very much! Yes, that was scary and we discussed it for a while before we decided to give it another try. Our first plan was to do like you did.☺️
@@HilmaSailing It sucked, but we were glad we did it after the fact. Hope you guys are doing well. We're literally packing for our return to Greece right new and Wendy and I are sewing sunshades and curtains madly in advance of our departure. There's going to be a pile of boxes at the marina when we get there too. It'll be like Christmas!
Great video. Look forward to your future videos when you go north away from the traditional cruising routes👍👍
Thank you so much! Yes, we are sorry that we are so late with the episodes but we will show you the lovely places up north too! 👍😊 Our next ep is from Palmerston, and we don't think that it is a very common place to stop at either. We are trying to upload it today.😊
Hey Hilma, cap and crew. We enjoyed the sailing part of the episode..great footage..greetings from Køge Bugt
Thank you so much! We are glad that you enjoyed it. ☺️
Such beauty thanks for sharing
new episode, yeaaaah :) hope you doing well!
😀 We have a new one for today. 😀 We are and we hope you are too!
I detest overbearing, indifferent bureaucrats! It would be best to avoid Rarotonga and take your dollars to a people who appreciate you and won't try to screw you! Vote for freedom! Love your VLOG.
We too think the money should go to the right places and people. Of course there are some costs and hopefully it mostly goes to the right purpose. 🙏🏼
Thank you! 😊
Advance notice of arrival must be given to the Cook Islands Customs Service no less than 48 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel.
En hälsning från Kungsbacka. Jag tycker ni är underbara! Kramar.
☺️ Tusen tack för att du vill kolla på våra videos! Kramar
Givet, självklart, utan tvivel följar jag Er! Ni är i klass med RAN och Free Range Sailing! Jo, jag gillar er lite!!!!@@HilmaSailing
Part of the reason for the 24 hour advance notice is that there is a height restriction as the airport flight path is also directly over the port and anything above 27 meters high ( I think that is the limit) is put in certain places so that there is no obstruction of the flight path. There is supposed to be a new area being built that will eliminate that problem. There is also a problem with typhoons at certain times of the year and the port is closed to non-commercial traffic. The last thing is the custom's people want to inspect your boat prior to your arrival in the port proper.
OMG!! ... TRADER JACKS!!
Good vid ya'll.
Thank you!
$350 ...wow..we went the ought the Pacific 2008-2013, and we were put out when a place charged money at all! Sounds like things are changing even there. Just checked in to South Africa and not only did they not even want paperwork from prior country, but no charges. I hope all you guys in the Pacific will express some resistance or at least annoyance with these charges so that when we go again, it won’t be a million bucks! Enjoy your videos!
Oh, it seems like it have changed a lot then! We think it had been quite frustrating in a lot of countries the last year and in many countries we have paid so much. In some (many) places you also have to pay extra if you want to go somewhere els than to the main port of clearance. It is different everywhere and it seems to change from day to day almost. Hard to keep up ☺️
Thank you! ☺️
@@HilmaSailing haha, Europe is no picnic either, my friends got caught speeding in Switzerland on bmws1000rr and lost license for 6 months, 8k euro fine. Ouch ☠️🐒, I say come to Alaska, no sales tax,no state income tax, $40 register car, boat, etc. If car is 7 years old you get permanent registration. But things are changing globally, nowhere will be safe from progressive tax,fee Nazi's. Fair sailing to you and your beautiful wife.😁👍❤️
The problems you had in the Cook Islands especially Rarotonga worry me and should not go unreported.They have a self government but in close association with New Zealand.Please lay an official complaint about your treatment and your payments with the New Zealand government.Love your photos and actual sailing content.
Yes it is sad and from what we have experienced the last year, it is not uncommon 🙁 Of course we want to pay, but we want to know that the money goes to the right purpose and we want to know what we are paying for. Yes, we will look into that and hopefully it will be an help for future sailors.
Thank you!! ☺️
Advance notice of arrival must be given to the Cook Islands Customs Service no less than 48 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel.
It’s encouraged not to chase after whales in Australia there are strict rules preventing this
However if you just stop moving - drop the sails or stop motoring
The hump back whales will often come to you
So just chill and they can become very friendly it seems like they are very inquisitive and almost want to say hi
We always try to keep distance and leave them space so we won't scare them, but thank you for the tip and we will be extra careful in the future. We have had some close encounters when we have sailed and also stayed at moorings so that is probably why. ☺️
You know about $300 of the $350 went into someone's pocket...quite a little operation they have going there.
they ripped you off m8 get a solicitor lol
We are afraid of that too. If you know for sure the money goes to the right place it's most often ok, but usually we have no proof at all and it feels a bit sad.
Last time we asked "Why does it cost this much to stay here for 5 days?" we got the answer "Because you are white".. This was in Pohnpei in Micronesia where we paid 150USD and that was the cost only for that state... They said it was the same in every state but in Yap we only payed 55USD in total.. Wierd ;)
The Pacific was calm compared to the southern ocean, from which Magellan (who had named it) had exited
Yes, that's right ☺️
Hello guys greetings from UK I have notice in around 19 min that you have emergency rudder ? how did you fixed original rudder that broke ?
Hello, we got a new rudder in Majuro. This movie is from October last year so we will show you in a future episode about the new rudder-replacement ☺️ The rudder-episode was an extra episode because we wanted to share that immediately. ☺️
Underbart att följa med på er resa! Vars är ni på väg?
Vad roligt att du tycker det! Vi är just nu i Filippinerna och planen är att segla hela vägen hem till Lysekil igen. ☺️ Vi är efter med våra avsnitt då det tar mycket tid att göra dem. Denna film är inspelad i oktober men vi är mer uppdaterade på facebook, instagram och vår hemsida iaf.☺️
For a nation state whose entire GDP is 67.5% tourism, you're think they'd be a little better at handling visitors.
@Donn Smolik LoL, as if you have a girlfriend.
Advance notice of arrival must be given to the Cook Islands Customs Service no less than 48 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel.
Nearly as bad as Australia > Same BS paperwork , red tape.
Nice video but don’t chase hump back whales in Australia waters big big big fine we protect them with a passion.
Thank you. We try to keep distance and don't scare them and we will be even extra careful in the future.
@@HilmaSailing It's ok if they swim up to you. But we're not allowed to sail up to them. :)
Crooks. You should have reported them
We just wish that we would have cleared out of Palmerston instead. They seemed to need the money more. 😊
Advance notice of arrival must be given to the Cook Islands Customs Service no less than 48 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel.
Please, subtitles in Portuguese or Spanish please
We really can't speak that good Spanish :)