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  1. Highly recommended. We just did a road trip to Cape Reinga for the first week of the school holidays and came across the app CamperMate "free download" Its NZ made and has over 6000 facilities like public toilets, backpacks, shops and services. Ad it to your bag of tricks if you want to find something on the coast.
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    Radar question.

    Im struggling with this new format as well tried to PM you but something about a full mail box. 021 447 639 send a text
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    Radar question.

    Hi John B I have a brand new Radar in the garage I bought with my C70 years ago. Never been out of the box if you are interested. I also have the raymarine mast mount kit. Let me know
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    Gas bottles

    Its technically P48 so it generates about 48psi of pressure when it evaporates. The bleed valve is letting the gas out. That's the dangerous bit the gas. If you leave the bottle to be filled on its side it will only half fill will liquid and you are done.
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    Gas bottles

    Don't tell anyone but the old process of transferring gas from one bottle to the other is still alive in the cruising world. Different valves, different bottle sizes can result in the difficulty of getting bottles filled. Up ending one bottle to fill the other with no regulator in the plumbing is the way its done.
  6. No disrespect KM but if you rotate the photo they look like twin toilet seats
  7. Its a life style thing. Once you are in your life style moulds. It could be a simple as replacing your car every 6 years not 3. I raced sports cars for years and was away almost every 2nd weekend. When I stopped I thought the boat was cheap. Marina fees have close to doubled in 9 years.
  8. Hi IB. Haul out and blast out for a week at Pier 21 was about a $1000.00. You can stay on board and the facilities are good with showers.
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    Diesel Filters

    Its a while ago my guess is $125.00 with Primer and $90 without?
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    Diesel Filters

    Arriving at this post a little late. For a little extra money get the RACOR with the primer pump attached. Its excellent you can manual pump fuel thorough the system and also achieve good pressure to bleed the system. I have a day tank plumed into the system so in the event of a lift pump failure the day tank will gravity feed the injector pump and the Day tank can be filled using the Racor filter pump
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    Yacht Daemon

    Update from Jill and Bruce Having a Coron-ary..... which is a short break in Coron while I get my last assignments for my Semester One papers completed. Coron is a lovely wee town on the island of Busuanga in the Calamian Group, north of Palawan. (N 11"59.7" E120'11.8") It is predominantly a dive place, but there aren't many tourists here, and none of the retired alcoholic sex tourists so prevalent in Puerto Galera and Sabang: much nicer altogether! The town is quite amazing - whole neighbourhoods of it are built on stilts over the water, which solves the wastewater plumbing, but means we
  12. With OzziTalk missing I spotted an update on Martin by idlerboat » Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:48 pm Hi all you wonderfull people and my mates from Alaska and Canada. Sorry for the time that has past........ The very short version. We put the boat inthe water..24 hrs later put the rig on (self built of course). Spent a few months getting sorted and then 6 weeks waiting for a window to do "sea trials". 1200 NM later we are now at the half way point and heading back south. We have had constant battles with wild weather and as I type tommorrow will be no differant. 40 knotts and 5 M seas.
  13. I have anchored in Fitzroy in all weather and almost everywhere but the ferry channel. Good holding, deep in parts, shelter from most weather. If you ask the gas station guy he may let you tie up to the wharf overnight if it is quiet. Shop has a garden bar, Yacht club is good but check open times. Have fun it a nice stop over.
  14. Dose it just phone/text you "Help" or do you get to track it?
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    Yacht Daemon

    Hi all, Well, we survived our elephant training experience, which, while being huge fun, was bit of a joke as the elephants knew exactly where they were supposed to go, as they do the route 4 times a day. This was handy, as my mispronunciation of "go right" in Lao may have had them wondering "Why is she shouting "bird flu! bird flu!" at me - I always go right here!". We got to ride on their necks and take them into the river to bathe them, which caused a disturbing loosening of bowels (mainly but not exclusively) on the elephants part, and I can tell you that you don't want to fall in
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    Yacht Daemon

    Hi all, Well we finally made it out of Vietnam without me killing a local, although I did come close a few times. There is a saying that to travel in the north you need a sense of humour and that is pretty much spot on. Life wasn't improved by me managing to catch a stomach bug in Hue, which will now always be known to me as "Huuueeeeey!". Despite that, it is a very pretty city and I wish I had seen more of it. The train trip to Hue from Danang was another classic - train an hour and a half late, then took 4 hours to go 100km! Floor awash with rubbish & vomit etc etc - we flew to
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    Yacht Daemon

    Update from Yacht Daemon Well, we made it to Hoi An, but foolishly I delegated the bus ticket buying to Bruce as I had reached the "rip people's throat out" stage of culture shock and needed to hide for a while away from motorcycles running over my feet. Bruce arrived back with tickets, for seats 9 & 10. I commented that they sounded close to the back of the bus and I hoped our bed wasn't one of the quadruples across the back seat. Bruce looked perplexed and said "But they don't have beds, just seats.". Miscommunication - I had expected to pay the extra $2 for soft sleeper tour
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    Yacht Daemon

    Hi all, Well, we've been travelling for a couple of weeks now and it seems like ages! Our first stop was in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, which was a complete cultyre shock. We went from steamy humid and regulated Malaysia and Singapore into dry dusty and chaotic Cambodia. The tuktuk (2 seater trailer with canopy towed by a scooter, seats up to 8 with luggage) ride in from the airport aged me 10 years, as the Cambodian traffic is the worst I have ever seen. The only road rule is that you have right of way, and it is up to you when/how you choose to enforce that. A 4 lane road will have anyt
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    Yacht Daemon

    New Year Up Date from Daemon Well, this is more like it! Apart from a preponderance of giant kitsch cat statues (Kuching fancies itself as cat city) Kuching is a very attractive and interesting city. As many of you had picked up, we weren't quite so enthralled with what we had seen of Borneo as we may have been. This is mainly because of the destruction of most of the northern part during the war, and the consequent rebuilding of the cities hastily, and in an incredibly ugly and brutal concrete style, which paved the way for similar architecture to follow. Kuching however, has lots of love
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    Yacht Daemon

    Xmas Update from Jill & Bruce Hi all, Remember us? We're the ones doing all the sailing stuff and who have been too lazy/busy/preoccupied to write. So here is what we have been up to since we last wrote: We spent our last week in Brunei finishing boat chores, reprovisioning, filling up with diesel (NZ 30c per litre!) and buying a new solar panel - NZ$ 230 for a 75 watt panel - excellent deal. Maybe now I can do emails etc without the power-consumption police glaring at me. We were befriended by a local expat couple who were very generous with the use of their car, and also took
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    Yacht Daemon

    Hold on to your hats the Daemons are making a flying visit. Update Until we head back to NZ. Daemon is tucked up in the bay at Brunei, with 3 lots of people keeping an eye out for her, so fingers crossed she'll be fine. We have had a good month relaxing and doing a bit of sightseeing - not a lot of sightseeing, as a) Brunei is tiny and b)there isn't a lot to see. We took a day trip with one of the guys who runs a tour company as well as being heavily involved with yachting here, and visited the two main mosques, the water village, the museum housing the Sultan's regalia, the Brunei
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    Yacht Daemon

    More from the Daemons.Update .. OK, not really, but after the horrors of Labuan Marina, being anchored and free to swing with the tide and wind at Muara in the Sultanate of Brunei is pretty damn pleasant! As predicted, luxury palled fairly quickly (day 2, "Hmnn, I've stayed at better...") and just in case telling myself this wasn't working, their berth spaces and our budget ran out at the same time, so we had to move on. We went out to Gaya Island and anchored overnight before heading towards Labuan Island. We had planned to anchor at Pulau Tiga, Ground Zero for the Survivor tv series,
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    Yacht Daemon

    More from the Daemons Hi all, Well, we dragged ourselves out of Kudat (love that little town!) and headed down the coast of Borneo to the bright lights of Kota Kinabalu. Again the trip was uneventful (I've stopped counting cowering in the cockpit on anchor watch during the usual evening thunderstorm as events), and we stopped at some nice anchorages on the way, particularly Pulau Mantanani and Pulau Gaya, which is in the Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park, a stone throw from the centre of KK. We are now in the marina at Sutera Harbour Resort and in a quiet state of bliss, not least beca
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