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Warning - chain plates on NZ built production boats


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And, he said he was checking the content of his grab bag monthly, including that the VHF was in good order. So he was taking 'all practical measures' and was understandably a bit pissed off when he found it was flat.

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How the hell does that full blown twit Mike Hosking manage to force his bloated egotesticle bullshit into the living rooms of this country.

For christ's sake he is just a introducer of news clips, not even a properly trained journalist.

On a $mil or more.

His verbal diarrhea in granny Herald is simply a daily joke.

Tantrum over for now.

Back to the Townson recently lost.

The skipper comes across as a pretty switched on guy and his comment about the value of the liferaft safety course he attended is a timely reminder that being in a upside down raft and being able to right it needs to be practiced beforehand. 

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My vhf has a  turn off/ on and I've found it discharged before now. Accidentally turned on. 

 Good to know what went wrong, a lot of talk about the mast hopping out of the step and robin hooding down through the hull, but now we know the truth, a chainplate failure .

 

Good to know, Unlike two other fatal boating accidents being sat on by the authorities,

 

How long does it take to write a report? ANSWER .. LONG ENOUGH that everyone has forgotten about it .

 Except perhaps the people who sail on the sea and who would like to know , so they can safeguard against something similar happening to them and theirs.

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