STOLEN DINGHY and Marshall Islands Visa Renewals! EP74 This week we being the somewhat lengthy procedure to renew our Marshall Islands visas. Due to Covid 19, we can't safely get back to NZ, so we have to apply for a one year visitor visa. We spend a lot of time at the local hospital, getting medical checks done and finally manage to complete all of the paperwork only to be thwarted by immigration... Then there's a drama in the anchorage as we apprehend a dinghy thief after a high speed chase.... Footage from April 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: https://sailingdoubletrouble.com 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble #Majuro

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good morning it is monday morning we got

back into major yesterday after a very

sporty crossing from malolap

and we've got a busy week ahead uh this

coronavirus means we are pretty much

stuck in the marshall islands for the

foreseeable

our current visas run out next week so

we've got to go and

extend they're offering a one-year what

they call cruising visa

to all the uh the non-american boats

that are here

so we've got to get that sorted out

there's paperwork to fill in and health

checks to be done and police checks to

be done the usual stuff that goes with

extending these things

um rob was bitten by a dog yesterday and

he's got two

nasty puncture holes in his leg so we

treated those when he came back to the

boat and we've started him on some

antibiotics but i want him to go and

have a tetanus

um and we'll see if we can get our

health checks for the visa done at the

hospital at the same time

so it's going to be a busy week we've

got laundry and reprovisioning and all

that kind of thing to do

and obviously we need to get connected

back to the internet which is top

priority this morning after the tetanus

shot

so yeah more later

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before we could start any medical

procedures we had to register as

patients with the hospital

this involved having our fingerprints

and our photos taken

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this is what happens when you get bitten

by a dog a babe

rob's about to have his tethnus

injection

have you not got a bigger needle oh you

need bigger

while rob was getting his tetanus we saw

a familiar face

it was the doctor who had been with the

measles vaccination team at malala

battle

he thanked us once again for helping

them with the ice packs and said that

without our assistance the vaccines

would have been

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we could help with spoiled thank you

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well it's tuesday morning and we're on

day two of trying to get the stuff

organized for our visas we spent four

hours at the hospital yesterday

getting things like blood tests and

check chest x-rays

um in our opinion a total waste of the

hospital's resources this is just to

extend visas we've been here for three

months already

um it seems crazy they'd be spending

their money and resources on us when

they could be spending them on the

locals but that's a story for another

day

this morning we are going to the police

station to get our police checks done

which according to our friends on

offshore haven won't take very long

one of the joys of yesterday was we had

to provide some pee and

poo samples so we've had a fun morning

as you can imagine

filling our little pots up with those so

we need to go and drop those back at the

hospital this morning

after that i think we have to wait for

all the results to come back from the

hospital which hopefully we'll get them

on thursday

and then by monday we should be ready to

hand our forms into immigration

more form filling at the police station

and this lovely gentleman here is

sorting out our clearance for us

on our next visit we took advantage of a

free flu vaccine and the hospital kindly

printed out our vaccination records for

future reference

it's very good isn't it very good

excellent that was the small needle now

rob gets the really big one

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that we need so we can go to the outer

islands safely

of course and thank you for looking

after us no problem

thank you thank you so much thank you

what time is it it

think and we've is in the hospital since

11 this morning

11 o'clock this morning we've had full

medicals it's been mad hasn't it

yeah this is our fourth trip

yeah and we've got to come back on this

friday to pick up on

pick up the forms that now need to be

signed it shouldn't this should have

taken two days

we've wasted hospital time and resources

the people here have been delightful

absolutely delightful if people ask us

to do stuff we don't mind doing it

but it's a waste of resources for the

hospital isn't it yeah

yeah it is a little bit right so so

today we're back at the hospital and

what's happened today

we have our we finally have our forms

all signed sealed and delivered so now

after two weeks of fluffing about

i can put the stuff into immigration

monday after the weekend

yeah oh yeah can't do it today because

you can only put the forms into

immigration on a monday or tuesday

yes not a friday we'll do that on monday

gives us two days to prepare monday

morning

and we have finally got all the

paperwork together to apply for our

visa extension we've got police checks

we've got

passports with us we've got all the

paperwork we can possibly need

we're going to head off over there now

in dave and put our paperwork in and

hope that our visas

don't take too long to come back

let's hope they're open

just point out it's april

okay yeah we'll do that today thank you

off to the finance office yeah let's go

and spend some money

to hand over the equivalent of nearly

700 new zealand

yes don't lose the

let's receipt see if we can find your

hat

so having found the finance officers and

paid our fee it was back up to

immigration to complete the procedure

and to collect rob's favorite

disappointed if it's hat

there it is there's the little hat

listen carefully and you'll hear the guy

behind the desk ask us to come back on

thank you

so we were told to come back on friday

which is the only day that immigration

issue the uh the new visas basically

we've put all our paperwork in we

brought our passports back to have them

stamped and today is friday

and we arrived here to find this on the

door

thanks immigration we thought this was

going to be our last trip to immigration

today

but no i guess we'll come back on uh

monday or a week weeks friday

oh yes a week friday yeah we can't come

back any other day can we tell you on a

friday after email or telephone them

we finally got our passport stamp with

our new visas the following friday

in the meantime we had a very dramatic

day in the anchorage

well talk about excitement on the sunday

afternoon alex and andrew went over to

the shops

put their dinghy on the beach and came

back and it was gone so they put a call

out to the fleet

and someone's just apprehended their

dinghy and they were on the back of a

catamaran

that's unattended over in the other

mooring field they're trying to break in

there's dinghies from about four or five

other cruising boats out there rob's out

there and dave

as fast as he can

and everyone's got radios with them

which is good so yeah it's all very

exciting

it's nice to see everyone uh all working

together to try and get somebody's dingy

back

because you're reliant on them basically

that that's your car without your dinghy

you can't go anywhere you can't do

anything

alex and andrew and the kids were

stranded on the beach at the other end

they've come back after doing their

shopping and their dinghy's gone

so hopefully they're gonna get this guy

hopefully he's going to get a good

spanking from the police

police boat now lights on and everything

where he's going

unless he's already got them

good results are the police gently

admonishing the gentleman now

they have him in their custody but uh

yeah he um he ended up

jumping in and then trying to swim back

to shore so

what's surrounded by dinghy yeah then i

recovered him to here and he kept trying

to jump off to

escape but he didn't feel good

good work everybody good work i bet

andrew's chuffed a bit so

that's good good quickly introduced

andrew and alex are very good friends

from offshore haven

tell us what happened to you dinghy oh

bloody

dude pinched it rat bag while we're at

the supermarket we had a vhf with us in

the supermarket

so the first thing you do is you come

out and you find your dinghy's been

pinched as you call the

cruisers and go cruising fleet crossing

fleet someone's stolen our dinghy

can you keep an eye out and yeah and

that was the key man yeah because

uh white walk spotted it and that was

that was the end of him

the cruiser community sprung into action

yeah

amazing got it back yeah great community

this is the legend

rob actually needs to explain

make as much noise as possible and

realize that i could just

get the dead man's switch

obviously but he was carrying in the

corner at that point

and then cj came in yeah as we were

dealing with all the painter the guy on

the boat just

took a running jump and just jumped

straight in the water and

started trying to swim back at that

point it was quite

the that score would come through so

there was a one meter chopped sort of

thing

because you all he was way up by the

face yeah

and we just did a sort of slow hopper

back

he didn't realize until the police boat

was about

20 meters away what was going on he

hadn't seen it

and uh so he then tried to jump in again

i was like this stopped

yeah after we caught up with him there

were then there's six other boats around

how the hell did they respond that fast

yeah it's it's a small community and

i guess with the cruises man because

yeah yeah we're all over it

i wish i could have been in the action

could you drop them back to the beach

wear it so i can punch her in there

you know i was going to say the same

thing i think the police should have

given you five minutes with him

yeah glad the dinghy's back

very glad very very happy

my husband is preparing himself for his

uh his big moment this morning

what's happening this morning darling

there's a photo call i've got to go and

do

they're getting their photos taken for

the local paper i've been hearing makeup

at the moment

i'm actually gonna put a clean t-shirt

on well some t-shirt would be good but

clean would be nice yeah

after the heroics of the dinghy rescue

yesterday we're all gonna pile into the

dinghy and see if we can all fit

and the capture of the fugitive

always slip slap slot kids

he's talking about the sun cream i am

all the heroes morning

offer their photo opportunity

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