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I’ll call you or your source out on this. For this to be accurate, there would need to a significant number of visitors”normally” on the island at any one time - let’s say for the sake of argument, conservatively - five times the permanent population. Either that or the local population are all fasting daily for Lent and have decided to extend it for the month!

The one in the subject line you mean?

I thought a craftsman never blames his tools!

Awesome ride fella - I'm seriously jealous!

Apache - 8T Rehab - 10T no comparison

Even the foil junction is wildly different. The intrigue is growing . . .

I think he want more lead - lot’s more!

no cyclor station?

That's some heavy sh*t!

Na - surely the "Jaw's" movie suspense music is far more effective. Either that or something out of one of the Sharknado documentaries?

Setting aside the idiocy of locating the ramp in that particular location for the moment, the alignment makes sense. It uses a minimum of shoreline. To align the ramp so that vessels are parallel to the shore would remove usable access for the other commercial operators. Now, locating an operator that requires the entire entrance to one of the largest recreational marinas in the world to manoeuvre vessels is indicative of poor governance

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397246/new-marine-pest-found-near-great-barrier-island "appears to be introduced last year". If they know when then they should know how!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397246/new-marine-pest-found-near-great-barrier-island "appears to be introduced last year". If they know when then they should know how!

Greg, Do want the previous owner details or the new owner details? The boat sold pretty quickly and is now up in Gulf Harbour I believe.

That is truly incredible!

Sail smart and you'd have no problems gettung to the Barrier - plenty of vol. In those floats

easy to tether. Why does it need to be right-angled?

Nice inititive but I can't help but notice the cultural irony in this. "I don't like what's in SmallTalk but I don't have the disiplne to stop myself having a peak once in a while - and then the micro agression hits me and I get all angry again at SmalTalk being on a sailing website!"

just hanging it out to dry!

https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/113718065/luna-rossa-declare-new-americas-cup-boat-too-difficult-too-extreme I guess this puts paid the rumour that LR would only help out the kiwis if they agreed to go back to monos.

all looks okay on deck to me https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/391182/norwegian-sailor-missing-in-pacific-found

all looks okay on deck to me https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/391182/norwegian-sailor-missing-in-pacific-found

see - ali rigs are good - nice and flexi!

Thanks Fish. We've had bow stickers on our radar for a while but its tricky because they look fantastic. I can tell you now that if we did have a large fleet of small boats, and they did consistently struggle to finish inside the 30hr cut off time then we would be in a position look at how we could solve that. We had the cuttoff at 1500 in 2017 but struggled a little that year as well. Hell if we had 20 extra from that very small boat fleet show up this year, for a bottle of rum we might even be tempted to push out an ammendment this year!

yeh - youy can't win no matter what you do. Just went back through our NoR's and SI's for the last few years post the bank's sponsorship. 2012: if you didn't finish prior to 1200hrs you were scored DNF (IIRC I posted some later times that year) 2013: if you didn't finish prior to 1400hrs you were scored DNF 2014: If you didn't finish prior to 1400hrs you were entitled to radio in your position and be awarded a finish place etc etc etc per this year's NoR. We have people who then have to bust their arse in a short space of time to finalise results prior to prizegiving at 1900hrs We've