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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.
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On 7/03/2022 at 7:59 PM, Jon said:
You generally find two types of boat owners.
‘The first and where you should aim for is the type that use their boats all the time whilst fixing small stuff, and the type that never or very rarely use their boats as they are constantly working on them.
Most here fit somewhere between the two
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 looks on a boat more than 3y old…
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On 26/02/2022 at 3:23 AM, ex Elly said:
Wow you have a good memory! Trackerjack was destroyed that day - no insurance. 😪
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.
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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
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On 17/02/2022 at 9:57 AM, syohana said:
Ouch! Crumbs was my old boat. She has a good strong hull, did they get her off OK?
Meanwhile in a relatively sheltered bit of Kerikeri river opposite us a very big heavy timber launch on a pile mooring first broke both her bow lines before the storm even got started (they were more properly described as rotten strings) and was swinging around one pile bumping it so I went over in a small boat and put a bow line on her and attached an extra stern line from the other pile. Next morning after the storm that new bow line was holding fine but the pile at the other end had broken off completely and again she was held by one line! Before the tide turned and swung her into the neighbouring boat I managed to get another long line on to the next pile down the row. Considering she had been swinging around bumping that rotten pile the night before, attached to nothing else, it's a miracle I caught her before she broke loose completely and crashed into other boats.
Good effort!
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11 hours ago, Black Panther said:
I think her preference would be Europe, she's fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, not bad at Dutch and I think she's working on another.
She can sail, yeah? …. I need crew for a week in June…
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The outcome was? Any options in Europe? The continent is a different thing to the UK.
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40 minutes ago, John B said:
They plan to pave the Kerikeri inlet, wait , you knew that....
Ahhh to keep the tide on time That’s a Swiss approach to keep rivers running on time …
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So it looks like I’ll be home for the whole of July…
Been some years. Am I gonna have to brace myself?
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13 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Run!!!!!!
"You fools!"
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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.
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Cut up a pair of your old redbands and screw them to the bulkhead?
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10 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Back to the weather, I can't really see anything that scary. Metservice says 40 kn in Colville for a few hours and that's it.
yeah, from the most recent modelling , looks to be tracking a bit further east before dropping down.
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13 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Dr Watson on here is a NZ citizen who registered in the UK I think.
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 passport; If you go to leave on your AU one, it might make life more difficult than it needs to be. In general, leave a country on the passport you used to enter. And if you have a passport for the country you're entering, use that. I did once have to leave NZ on my UK passport because I couldn't find my NZ one... had slipped under the lining of my suitcase.
Also an interesting point about leaving some countries to sail off over the horizon. France don't do check out... you just sail off. So if you leave France and head to a country where they expect a ZARPE... I dunno what happens.
Problems could occur, however, if you enter Aussie using your Aussie passport on an Aussie registered boat you own because they might decide you're about to become a resident and then charge you GST+Customs for the import. For most tax purposes and in most tax jurisdictions, it's your residency that determines how the tax man takey takey. For that reason, you might want to consider Jersey (and not UK proper). As an NZ citizen, Jersey registry is open to you.
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report to DoC?
take photos?
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How’s it gonna work out up there with the new dolphin rules?
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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
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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.”
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19 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:
Huh? Mangroves are native?
Been in the upper part of the nth island for 20000yrs
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 Miocene rocks from the Kaipara Harbour (Sutherland 2003)."
"...pollen preserved in sediments from the Firth of Thames (North Island) confirms the presence of A. marina in New Zealand from around 11 000 years BP (Pocknall 1989)."Both from:"The New Zealand mangrove: review of the current state of knowledge. May 2007 ARCTP325
That report is pretty interesting though as it does explain why mangroves appear to be increasing in area.
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On 13/12/2021 at 6:40 AM, Jon said:
Next time I’m over there (with lockdown it’s been our local) I’ll take a photo from the same angle as first photo
Its all full of our invasive imports Mangroves
Nice to see what the natural state would have been like
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. -
inflatable lifejackets - what's what?
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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.