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Today after several weeks of preperation and packing a consignment of our belongings goes off with the International Shippers for transpost to New Zealand. Clothes, books, boats, electrical goods, household nick nacks and lots more were gathered into 29 boxes. All items had to be very carefully cleaned to allow passage through New Zealand Customs, no soil on shoes, no untreated wood, no organic items etc etc.
Unfortunately, because of its size and delicacy, our Tug Boat would not be going with us and so it is left alone with one of the sail boats we were not taking anyway to see out the summer with us before being sold.
We had the boxes placed on our garage floor inside a 3 x 1 meter 'chalked out' area and we had a meter stick to guage the height of the boxes as we had an alloted space of three cubic meters to play with. In the end we had space left.
Once the goods have been packaged ready for shipment into container sized pallets they will wait for a ship and then take on average three months to get to Auckland. So if all goes well we should be arriving in New Zealand at around the same time as our shipped items.
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Amy And they’re off!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼