ynot 45 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Bloody rivs that park right next door and runs genset on and off every half hour all day and all night through to next morning.....literally. Like it's set to auto charge or something.... Would think if ya can afford the boat you would have money for a decent battery bank. Bite my tounge. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin McCready 83 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Couldn't help noticing your pegs. I learned about pegless loop clothes line as a volunteer on Spirit of New Zealand (drying 50 peoples gear quickly in a breeze is a breeze). Here's how. https://theboatgalley.com/boat-clothesline/ As to noisy gensets I really feel for you. One of the banes of my life. I would probably have rowed over for a convo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,586 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Had one yesterday. Thankfully they left before dark. Had Hooks Bay almost to ourselves. Beautiful, lots of big snapper and one ginormous shark. Cloudy and rainy today but I have a new Bill Bryson to read. Life is good. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aardvarkash10 959 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Just wait until the jet-skis arrive... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,586 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Haven't seen one. The Anchorage is a tiny bit exposed so that's probably why. One advantage of a long waterline is we don't feel it so much, SW by this afternoon, might get across to coromandel in the next day or three. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Psyche 632 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Nothing worse than a peaceful bay, flowering pohutukawas, glassy water and the nautical version of a leafblower going all day! Mind you it could be worse, you could have a raftup of piedys next door! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ynot 45 Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 Ha Maybe we need a hauraki gulf watch group for the piedys! Ha Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BNG 44 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 The nice yachting family domestic at Manowar was really impressive last night... biggest, longest most incoherant, boozed, hate filled effort ive ever seen or heard. Ended with a few death threats. Just lovely. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,586 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Wait till this evening when the wind shifts and come around to Hooks Bay. Glorious. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ynot 45 Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Kevin McCready said: Couldn't help noticing your pegs. I learned about pegless loop clothes line as a volunteer on Spirit of New Zealand (drying 50 peoples gear quickly in a breeze is a breeze). Here's how. https://theboatgalley.com/boat-clothesline/ As to noisy gensets I really feel for you. One of the banes of my life. I would probably have rowed over for a convo. I will pass that on to the admiral.... I'm not aloud to touch the pegs! Apparently they are not consumables. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Panther 1,586 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 One year someone gave us some ss pegs, still have them. Unfortunately no idea where they came from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ex Machina 365 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 On 28/12/2021 at 2:32 PM, Black Panther said: One year someone gave us some ss pegs, still have them. Unfortunately no idea where they came from. 12 bucks a packet at the warehouse Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin McCready 83 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 57 minutes ago, Ex Machina said: 12 bucks a packet at the warehouse I saw these words in my email subject list and for a joyful moment thought there may be a neat solution to the noisy neighbour problem. Oh well, hope springs eternal. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ex Machina 365 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Well I’m sure there’s many things at the warehouse for 12 bucks that would cure a noisy genset Quote Link to post Share on other sites
khayyam 68 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 4 hours ago, Ex Machina said: Well I’m sure there’s many things at the warehouse for 12 bucks that would cure a noisy genset https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/mako-club-hammer-3lb/R1896347.html 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marinheiro 352 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 you think a gen set is bad. I was anchored at a lovely little bay opposite the Broken Islands Gt Barrier with 6 other boats, everyone quietly enjoying the solitude when these ..anchors pull in after a days diving with an unsilenced Honda powered air compressor sitting on the foredeck going flat out filling cylinders. When I observed to them very politely that a bit of consideration for everyone else in the bay would not go amiss all I got was pushback. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Pope 243 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 years ago a potato applied to the exhaust worked wonders, of course only after the gen set had stopped. Doesn't help with Compressors tho! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 399 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Worst we had was close in at Awakiriapa Bay a desperately ugly alloy power Cat running genset into tunnel acted like a speaker box, do these guys not know how to plumb up a generator -the right way has been easily available for years. "Professionally Built too" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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