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Good luck explaining that to a coroner. Either it's a regulation or it isn't. Your also supposed to comply with OSR but they are different again. This has been pointed out many times but it doesn't seem to register. There is a long way to go before I would call it simplified.

And none of those fire extinguisher things a bucket of sand, painted red, marked FIRE for the fighting of...

I’m betting there was a few diehards that keep their bucket of tar until they couldn’t row out to their boat anymore “Can’t trust them new fangle flare things you know”

I think flares are really good on a dark night out of town. People notice them, In town, not so much, Coastguard did a flare test exercise about three years ago, to check visibility etc. They let 5 different flares - including handheld and rockets off. Positions a] Motuihe Passage b] Bean Rock and c] Orakei. Thought we'd get lots of calls from people reporting - I mean, 15 flares all up. Total number of calls coming in to the ops room on that night - 8, in a city. I think that around Auckland Harbour there's just too many lights. So - I carry flares for when I'm out of the harbo

Last price I heard for a 1gm10 to unblock guvnor/pump $1300.Buy a lot of biocide for that.

Ava and Pajo? They are real sailors who use their sails. They get by with a tiny battery capacity and minimal charging capability. Respect to them for doing it right. It's about having the right attitude, remembering you're on a sailing yacht and not a motorboat with a mast.

The only place I see flares having an advantage is all electronics down including battery powered, and your insight of another vessel or land and you don’t want to use your epirb, signaling torch/mirror/flags/v sheet or wave your arms slowly. For that situation they are perfect

Reads the back lable. there is a chance it has biocide in it. The biocides are so toxic that they are not sold on there own undiluted. They are always sold in a cleaner or stabilizer. So chances are your product may already have it. And it certainly won't hurt the fuel having a stabilizer added even if it does not need it.

Same kill-joys that want to ban fireworks...

Lots of good information thanks. Re the pricing, my D1-30 Volvo was $20k. It was a drop in replacement including saildrive. The electric set up was going to be $30k for parts and we had unknown labour and building costs to modify cabinets and make custom mounts etc, electrician costs were extra. It was recommended we go to a shaft drive which required Hull modifications. I didn't see it happening for less than $40k when all was said and done. So it was $20k more. In diesel/maintenance costs that is probably around 10yrs projected. If done at todays prices it's 20 years but I accept t