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DrWatson

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  1. We have coded our jackets with different coloured cordage. Each crew member is shown how to fit and use the jacket, I check fitting, and each crew remembers their colour. It’s theirs for the trip. Hydrostatic triggers. double crotch straps. plastimo. 150N. Comfortable. No idea what they’re like inflated. The water here is bloody cold at the best of times so I’m not rushing to get in and test - I should change that, though.
  2. Shall I give the real list or the list for this weekend - being the first long weekend away ever with my wife on her boat, sans kids.
  3. My boat was brand new in 2019 - it still has a list…nothing major, but a list nonetheless. Things like: Install Radar, danbuoy, additional electricity generation, crew set of ais beacons, couple small gelcoat chips, stich on some halyard covers, storms’l, plugs for the electric motor charging, wiring in the espresso machine, building a toolbox/roll, relocating the water maker, replacing that usb charge point that drowned when the water maker shat itself, replacing the zip sliders on two squab covers because I’m an idiot and didn’t learn the first time… hate to think how the list
  4. It was quite an exceptional month- I think there were 2 severe storms, one much akin to the other, within a week. Something like category 2 level on the Saffir Simpson scale? Seem to remember numbers like 90kts being bandied about. I sat at Birkenhead for an hour or so watching my little keeler pitch violently. Decided there was nothing I could do. Went home.
  5. Make sure you don’t leave a fender over the exhaust…I’m aware through the grapevine that this has happened in the past. The yards don’t like having to take a nearly brand new boat back to rebuild the aft quarter! It messes with their production schedules
  6. She can sail, yeah? …. I need crew for a week in June…
  7. The outcome was? Any options in Europe? The continent is a different thing to the UK.
  8. Ahhh to keep the tide on time That’s a Swiss approach to keep rivers running on time …
  9. So it looks like I’ll be home for the whole of July… Been some years. Am I gonna have to brace myself?
  10. Keeping the German registration is ok, so long as the new owner qualifies to have a German registered ship (possibly you don't - can't remember German requirements), but legally the skipper needs the qualification of the flag state - if you're sailing out of NZ. Many places won't ask you see your qualification, but some will.
  11. Cut up a pair of your old redbands and screw them to the bulkhead?
  12. Tuts even made the news in Zurich… Feels slow getting support up to them… (Tonga I mean)
  13. yeah, from the most recent modelling , looks to be tracking a bit further east before dropping down.
  14. Partly correct, Yes, NZ citizen, but the boat is registered in Jersey and owned by a German who lives in Switzerland. Jersey is not the UK, although the Jersey Registry is (somehow) a part of the UK registry. The Aussie reg option is intersting. Usually, one needs the qualification required by the flag state. Do you need an Aussie license to operate an Aussie flagged vessel? Jersey don't require the skipper to have any formal qualifications. Just a thing to think about. This is why we didn't register in Germany, nor in Switzerland. Regarding checking out on your NZ or AU
  15. report to DoC? take photos?
  16. How’s it gonna work out up there with the new dolphin rules?
  17. Xmas cruising plans? Well such is the situation over here that ours will be a lap of the lounge followed by a lap of the kitchen. Unless we’re extremely lucky I doubt there’s gonna be any other laps in oth
  18. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458385/water-safety-concerns-in-wanaka-as-harbourmaster-resigns “People needed to remember to stick to five knots within 50 metres of the shore or another vessel, he said.” different rules for lakes??? Or is the commentator being misquoted?
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    yes, certainly indigenous. "An indigenous species may be defined as one that has not been introduced (either intentionally or unintentionally) to an area by humans (Allaby 1998). By definition then, the mangrove A. marina subsp. australasica qualifies as an indigenous member of the New Zealand flora, given that its existence here can be dated some thousands of years before humans inhabited, or even visited, these islands. Mangroves have inhabited New Zealand coastlines for approximately 19 million years, as indicated by the presence of Avicennia-type silicified woods associated with lower
  20. DrWatson

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    It's had mangroves for at least 43y, don't seem to be anymore now than back when I was playing there age 5. Be cool to see a new pic, though.
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    Yeah that TS12 looks quite short, she'd be one of the shorter one's, though. Some of the others look a bit longer than 18ft, but they don't seem so beamy as a true mullet boat. BTW, some digging around in Thames Star from 1909 shows up that TS43 was likely called Rita, and the event is likely the Thames-Kopu regatta, where Rita came second (by only 10s) in the up to 7hp launch race. Owned by my great grandfather according to the paper article, so likely built by him and not my grand father.
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