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This is the type of smart border management we need. Private sector quarantine facilities need to be established, full cost recovery basis for non NZ citizens, and smart management of the border with a focus on economic activity / stimulation. NZ citizens need to be able to return free of charge (one way). But if citizens are leaving NZ for short trips, they should be paying full costs to return also. The question is if the govt can adequately manage the border. The wider they cast the net, the harder it will be to manage. Look at this a different way. If Opua and Whangare

The thing is with Camshaft, Cranks, Chains, Cogs etc etc and any other solid mechanical timed mechanisms, if they fail in anyway, the issue is not intermittent. They all cause major and even catastrophic failures that would abruptly bring the engine to a halt. Or at best, the ignition of the Fuel would be compromised and result in a smoky cylinder or two or more. From my own experience, here are a list of things I found over the years. Maybe it might help someone one day. Broken lug on Camshaft = ruff running through out rev range. Smoking engine. Continual clacking noise that increases f

Some reality here... NZ currently has managed isolation for about 250 people a day arriving. Even that is stretched. Regardless of any claims by people arriving from the Pacific, they would need to isolate. We have no capability to oversee isolation of people outside the managed sites, let alone manage isolation of people living aboard. A complicating factor is that, if we were to announce that the boarder was open ot cruising yachts etc, that status would be near impossible to reverse quickly - a sailor who has committed and departed for New Zealand on a 10 day to 3 week voyage from

So glad Im getting out of WH soon, never to return.

Mostly an unreasonable walk from the bus to the pier carrying sailing gear including supplies for the cruise back along with where do they get a bus when we got back at 1am? You could say they should stay on the boat but that the end of the day it's a marina to promote the enjoyment of using the boat. This is becoming less enjoyable when where to park a car is the major consideration.