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11th September 2022, 11:36 AM
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DR
Met mate that was at sea a long time
Said everybody got a DR in Buenas Aires
Something wrong if you didn’t 🙄
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11th September 2022, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by
robert george young
met mate that was at sea a long time
said everybody got a dr in buenas aires
something wrong if you didn’t
aye many recieved a present down that part of the world...you could get a full house without playing cards......r683532
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11th September 2022, 07:26 PM
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Well can honestly say i never had a DR entry in my Discharge Book!
Although i was not squeky clean (like many others) got away with quite a few naughty things! Luck!!
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12th September 2022, 01:00 AM
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I only went as far as Panama a few times and Aruba, missed out on South America, having read the posts on here I feel a little glad I did.
Des
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12th September 2022, 06:08 AM
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How I ever got away with out at least on DR in my book is a mystery!!
I worked very hard to get one but none of the skippers I sailed with were prepared to accept my challenge it appears.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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14th September 2022, 08:20 AM
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My memories of BA are that a Double DR was the least of your problems. The local Cops were brutal and armed to the teeth
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14th September 2022, 09:15 AM
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Buenos Aires was a beautiful place, along with the ladies. I could have married a rancher's daughter down there, but we had to shift ship one evening and we lost touch. In view of what happened in 1982 probably just well. Otherwise I might have ended up in a tin of Fray Bentos...
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14th September 2022, 11:50 AM
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#6 ..The Vigilantes the nearest thing to the Nazi Gestapo as one is likely to get , the dock police the Marineros although not so fearsome looking in their matelot suits were probably just as brutal. JS
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14th September 2022, 12:07 PM
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Happy memories of Bs As in the late 60's, although Dock Sud was not one of the prettiest of places.
Never got done over but did go ashore always with a couple of $ Dollar bills in my socks under my instep just in case!
Further up the river to Rosario and further were interesting trips.
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14th September 2022, 12:17 PM
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I was there in 1959, on the St Merriel, loaded full cargo of corned beef, also went up to Rosario the following trip, fortunately never had any trouble. We signed on in BA a british guy as DHU, he had been living in BA for many years and spoke perfect lingo, so he was useful mud pilot ashore in the bars. I enjoyed my time there.
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