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I'll reword it. Why would anyone anchor there when............

After years of old baggy 'potatoe sack' sails, and trying to kick the can down the road with second hand sails, getting our first new, purposed designed and built sail was an absolute revaluation in boat handling and performance. The first one was just a cross cut dacron (we have moved onto radial cut cruising laminates now), but we went from being over-powered in gusts and healing over like a bastard, to driving forward in gusts and pointing higher. Boat goes to windward like a freight train now, and with decsent sails we have the ability to fine tune to improve performance and wind rang

It's a tricky one. Why is under rahui but not under CAN? Not an ideal situation. The opinion of locals, as opposed to actual government rules, is also a grey area. If the "locals" were some rich a****** with a mansion on the shore who didn't want to look at boats in "his" bay, we'd all (rightly) tell him to get stuffed. That said, I probably will try not to anchor there. Mostly because it's not my favourite spot in any event though.

I wasn't anchored there. I haven't anchored anywhere there is caulerpa, regardless of a CAN, rahui or just caulerpa. All I was doing was stating a fact, that area is not prohibited. And calling out Lindsay's ignorance at calling boaties 'entitled' while they comply with the rules. It is a personal choice if you acknowledge the rahui. Applying your own moral judgement to others personal choices is a slippery slope. Destiny Church and Drag Queen story-time is a good example of how things go bad when people try applying their own moral views on other's personal choices. Just saying

It is not a technicality at all. Rules are rules. Polite requests are polite requests. There is much angst on here about boaties complying with the rules. Boaties can't be expected to comply with the rules if there is great confusion and uncertainty about what the rules are. Saying rules apply where they don't is 100% the best way to spread confusion and delay. Then, calling out boating for being "entitled wankers" when they are complying with the rules is simply ignorant. As for your 'skin deep' call, that is marginal. I have not anchored anywhere there is caulerpa, regardless

Curious to know of fill the gap sail or general purpose, code sail, Ax, gennaker, etc you have bought, and how much you use it?

A technicality. Buck localism and see where that gets you. I guess your aversion to caulapa and degradation of our ocean is, skin deep? Your personal autonomy is more important. I do support your thinking on the relevance of pleasure boat anchoring anchoring as a transmission vector now horse has bolted.

But why would you anchor there when you have been asked not to?

fact /fakt/ noun a thing that is known or proved to be true. "he ignores some historical and economic facts" Fact: It is not a prohibited area. Prohibited Anchoring areas are defined by Controlled Area Notices as issued by MPI. Not by a group of locals. The only pr

Ah! So let’s be picky then. A rahui requested by the local iwi. Therefore can be wantonly ignored because some boat owners don’t give a sh*t. https://www.ngatipaoaiwi.co.nz/media-release-caulerpa-2.html “To mitigate the spread of this invasive species, Ngāti Paoa is asking for cooperation from the local community, and the fishing & boating communities from further afield, to avoid disturbing the seabed and anchoring in these areas as it risks unwittingly aiding the dispersal of Caulerpa fragments, thereby exacerbating the problem. A rāhui (restriction) on b

Cause it isn't a prohibited zone. What is wrong with these people that can't get their facts straight?

Just passing Onetangi, where there’s about 20 boats anchored in the prohibited zone. Sheesh what’s wrong with these over-entitled people?

Diver client of mine does ship cleaning out of Tauranga. Thats dried up as they are arriving cleaned and log market has collapsed He has a contract coming up cleaning Caulerpa off the bottom around Kawau

Hopefully there's still somewhere in the gulf we can anchor come next summer.

Yep- as a golden rule, NEVER let a marketing department into anything at your peril. So they have spent tens of thousands [ or probably hundreds of thousands ] on a totally unnecessary exercise. Coastguard units have to sell raffle tickets to raise funds for local units every summer, and here their marketing dept. is splashing out like there is no tomorrow. We all know Coastguard, it did not need marketing, and a new logo and paint ain't going to assist saving anyone's lives. The front end of Coastguard, all volunteers, does a helluva good job in assisting us when needed, well done you guys.

Wheres this funding coming from? Hospitals have been told too save 80 million. Every service is being cut in NZ including bio security staff. If antone thinks mpi/bio security are going to throw millions at this weed think again

Its a bit pessimistic but I dont think we can stop the natural spread, if at all, even with a massive increase in funding to remove it but that doesnt mean we should be careless. At some point people will have to accept that its here to stay and then we are all in management mode.

Yes I understand people are very passionate about their environment, as am I. The point I was wanting to make (and seems to have been missed) is the high levels of disinformation and nonsense surrounding the caulerpa issue. Everyone getting all hot and bothered isn't going to lead to effective outcomes. Referring to disinformation and nonsense is the example given in the RNZ story I posted and you quoted. The 'locals' complaining about a superyacht going into the exclusion zone, going around the east side, then heading up North, and inference being that no enforcement action was taken, an

Artifact. Fully electric position holding Artefact: On board Nobiskrug's striking 80m hybrid superyacht (boatinternational.com)

It’s be good to know which superyacht people are talking about. One of those that has been getting lots of media attention never anchors. Like has not anchored since it was launched. It stays in place through GPS and can even rotate to make sure the owners wake up with the morning sun coming in to their berth. Maybe the lynch mob doesn’t hold all the facts?

I can understand the locals who don’t rely on Auckland boats for a livelihood getting atagonistic and they are probably a majority . Your summer cruising plans being curtailed probably have as much importance to them as a new motorway connection in dannevirke . I mean did you give a fig about surf tours plan the young bloke had who parked his IACC boat on your local reef ? From what I read were way more concerned about your reef , sounds like you spoke to the media about it too . And that’s fine I would be more concerned about my neighbourhood reef as well . The east side of barrier

As in any community, there is a wide range of personalities and world views. There are a lot of top people on the Barrier, but at the same time, there are one or two that comfortably fit into the 'rabid' definition with respect to antagonism and resentment of people in boats coming over to 'their' bays, catching 'their' fish and what not. While there are people on the Barrier who have publicly stated they really need the boaties to support their businesses and what not, there is a vocal minority that are openly aggressive to boaties, under the pretext of spreading caulerpa. Those ones seem to

Rabid locals?

Too late, found the stuff washed up in Kaperio bay after a strong NE several weeks ago. There wasn't a lot, but some had taken hold in rock pools. It is here unfortunately, anchoring restrictions etc arn't going to have much of an impact. Nature is doing a wonderful job of spreading it.

The point there is it is so easy to identify and track a yacht these days, like with AIS and a free website or tracker app, that for the Barrier locals to say they've seen this superyacht and for there to be no enforcement is just a nonsense. Even if they don't have cell coverage over the back of the island, surely a telephone call to the authorities would be able to identify and track the one and only superyacht in the area at the time? The Barrier Local Board chair is talking nonsense when asking 'how can we stop them?" All the ability to track and monitor them is already in place. Perh