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About harrytom

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  • Birthday 22/01/1963

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  1. I have the isolator on the negative side ,why??Last yacht had a wire(presume earth) to the prop shaft. So in my mind ,even though the battery has no earth it self to the outside world.I am picking with salt crystals etc(boat are always damp even though feel dry) that somehow the earth/negative would be connecting to the water and creating a circuit Now comes a problem,auto bilge pump via float switch needs to be hard wired in,if isolator off ho does pump work?
  2. Probably no damage compared to the weed.The weed smothering all shellfish beds,fish unable to get too food source etc But lets do what we are good at,complaining nothing be done and when we try we complain some more
  3. Govt dont seem over concerned as $$ need to spent. Minister of AG didnt have a answer or overly concerned.Could be billions lost,fish/seafood/tourism and even having ships banned at overseas ports. So what they allocated $5 mil,spend $100 mil and get it gone.
  4. TV 1 at 7.30 tonight has a segnent on its removal I believe. Close the gate but horse has bolted.
  5. Treading on dangerous ground disobeying the Admiral😀
  6. Remember the 4 thorny vosper we got back in the 70s?? totally unsuitable ex pommy ships,crews had to sleep down aft with officers due to the motion of the things. But yes fast coastal patrols designed for our conditions and not kept in Devonport .Base them Lyttleton/wellington/northland and maybe milford sounds that way they can patrol the west coast rather crossing bar harbours The Airforce just some 737s fitted out for survelience work
  7. Turn the navy in to coastguard service.Ocean customs watch.Fishery patrol.But we do win submarine exercises.
  8. No I don't.Friend lives on his and he doesn't know whose it is either. Just asked friend for name if yacht/owner.He sent me the photo back in Feb
  9. Bigger picture is most of these older vessels don't have insurance So it falls on rate/tax payers to dispose of.
  10. x10 jellicoes one is the Museum. Yes saw x50 "M" class Logan memorial was last weekend?
  11. When my first one sank the insurance company sent down a marine/insurance inspector.Who throughly examined all sea fitting.Sent the offending engine water intake valve to a metal fatigue inspection place and the result was .The fitting failed due to the composite make up of the valve, electrolysis, bonze hull fitting with a stainless steel tap and a copper tail. Basically disintegrated. So where insurance companies feel these concern they will throughly inspect. Mine was not obvious due to corroding from inside out. The yacht had a marine survey 6 months earlier on purchase. The yacht at
  12. No "M" class despite Logan being a designer
  13. Just returned.Just missed the rain.Son might be joining "Thelma" as they are looking for crew
  14. Jeff?? was on the radio Thursday or Friday explaing why he grounds his vessel.Prtest against the waste,silt,sewer wste etc entering the AK harbour yet we need to comply wth concil by laws. Yes hes a nutter
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