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Pocket Knife ok to bring? #99781
06/06/2016 02:34 PM
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I've searched Google and found conflicting info on having a pocket knife along. I don't have a set dive knife so I plan to take my Spyderco Pacific Salt, which is just under a 4" folding blade. It doesn't rust and I've been carrying one for about five years in and out of the salt water.

I like to have a knife on me while I am aboard a boat, but don't plan on taking it ashore or when I go out to the bars. Would I have any problem brining it in to the BVI on the ferry when it is packed away with my leatherman and filet knife in my luggage?

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Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: FLMarine] #99782
06/06/2016 02:44 PM
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I would be more worried about TSA then the ferry.

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: sail2wind] #99783
06/06/2016 03:26 PM
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Both the filet knife, leatherman, and pocket knife will be in checked luggage on the trip from the US

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: sail2wind] #99784
06/06/2016 03:29 PM
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When my folding knife is disclosed in the tray at the magnetometer typically the security personnel place it into the backpack I'm wearing and away I go. Once I saw the pattern I started just leaving things like that in my bag and haven't had an issue after perhaps 100 trips. It's not the most restrictive security system...

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: Kimber] #99785
06/06/2016 03:32 PM
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Never had an issue bringing my Spyderco Tasman Salt into the BVI. I pack it in my checked luggage.

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: NCSailor] #99786
06/06/2016 03:48 PM
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I always bring a pocket knife (in checked bags) and always carry it in my pocket while under sail. I'm old school, and believe every serious seaman should have a knife in their pocket at all times.

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Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: Twanger] #99787
06/06/2016 04:29 PM
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you know...a sailor without a knife....

just throw it in the hard sided checked cooler and away you go

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: Murdock] #99788
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Walt, I have a rigging knife at the helm ready to go. I'm afraid if I put in my pocket and fell down it would be painful. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />

Re: Pocket Knife ok to bring? [Re: sail2wind] #99789
06/06/2016 05:15 PM
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Walt, I have a rigging knife at the helm ready to go. I'm afraid if I put in my pocket and fell down it would be painful. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />


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