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Some good footage of what happened to a liveaboard yachtie in Tutukaka recently. He had no gas detector. TV3, First Responders, season 2 episode 3. https://www.threenow.co.nz/shows/first-responders/season-2-ep-3/1713218618042/M85137-515

Excellent!

4-year anniversary of taking ownership today. No regrets. VID_20230206_171257.mp4

The good old days of paper charts. Notes 1 this island is 1.5 nm west of charted position 2 this rock is 4 nm west of the charted position. 3 this rock was observed in 1889 but hasn't been seen since 4 this chart needs to be moved 8nm east. Interesting most of the corrections were east/west. A guy with a sextant could determine north/south reasonably accurately but east/west not so much.

Hell, we barely noticed it.

Pine harbour:

Confused in lieu of a sad face... Good thing the yard is reasonably empty at the moment.

I think the cabin top is the least exciting part of this project. Anyone know what Li chemistry they are using?

Panmure this morning

Noticed the obligatory loose headsail in shoal bay this morning. Seems like there's always at least one!

Yep the west coast of the Red Sea jumped about a mile east/west on Cmap at different zooms. They may have fixed that now as it was a while ago. Vavau used to move about a quarter mile.

It was pretty puffy last night. Anyone seen 100kn peaks in the Gulf before

thanks promise a very good home!

Let me have a look at what I have - they're currently stored in a couple of boxes while we redecorated

would you be willing to part with them? thanks

OK, here is another example - this is the same waypoint - just different chart scales... This is zoomed in, this next one zoomed out to next scale So, the waypoint has not moved! But the position of the reef moved about 2nm! The SAME issue is on the PAPER CHARTS at different scales. Interestingly, in this case the larger chart is the correct one. Not the 1st time I've seen that. Where there is little shipping, the charts are not fully reliable. You must have 3 data points to have a safe position. A modern digital radar would see the breakers, and can give you an ove

I worry about low zoom gps losing important detail. My practice when embarking on a new or unfamiliar passage is to get out the paper chart. List the hazards and major way points expected and then transfer to the GPS. I then cross them off as I pass them. For a night passage, an old seadog showed me the benefit of also making a light list. Has proved worth while at least once.

This would be a rough basis for that passage. The red bits are boundaries - alarms go if we try to cross one. You don't have to follow exactly, but no boundaries nearby or crossed, you are good to go. Takes 5-10 mins to setup.. Its easier to do the thinking and planning while at anchor, once you've decided where you want to go. Then if stuff is going wrong, one of the primary tasks is already done... Passage planning, including boundaries and clearing marks etc, are all part of the RYA yachtmaster course, and should be 2nd nature to any skipper.

Hey very keen please let me know

Some of us have seen the cabin etc it exists

Totally agree. understanding your tools and their limitations is an important part of being a Skipper.

Is there a particular edition you want? Or the lot? I have a fairly complete collection but not sure I want to let them go - my wife would perhaps be happy tho....

Because it turns out Maritime NZ's key witness was lying, and was out fishing all day when they said the weather was too bad to go out: Maritime NZ prosecutor Sam McMullan said he had "narrowed the particulars he was relying on for a guilty verdict". He said if, for a guilty verdict he must prove Lance Goodhew could've foreseen at 1:30pm when he left on the journey home that a giant 10-metre wave was likely later that night, then on that basis alone its case is "weak." Judge retires in Enchanter trial, asked to weigh up 'utterly extraordinary and unpredictable event' | Ne

All but one of those charges were dropped before the trial. Including the one with the $1.5million maximum penalty. It would be handy to keep up with what charges he is actually facing...

Judges do not like their rulings to be appealed successfully and clear cut isn't a legal definition. The law can be extremely detailed in complex cases and every word or phrase needs careful consideration. This is not a criminal case but he is facing huge fines if found guilty. The Judge has to make a judgement on whether he is guilty of the charges and if so set a fine which if high enough could ruin him. He needs to send a deterrent message but also weigh up the harm to Goodhew, this is not a traffic fine. "Goodhew is charged by Maritime New Zealand with breaching his duties as a worker