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did it fall or was it pushed. Maybe she needs to talk to her partner.

The old Man cruised for 8 yrs with a cat. When he passed we ended up with cat,saltwater must of affected it,mad as a hatter,not afraid of dogs,something like horse out of footrot flats, Bloody thing hated fish.

"My partner is a professor of environmental science, so we are passionate about predator control" Taking a cat aboard your yacht while cruising in the gulf kind of redefines passionate about predator control for me. https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/128468688/castaway-cat-comes-back-10-days-after-falling-off-a-catamaran-near-kawau

Yip we had a sailing cat.... was happy to swim if needed.

A yachting friend cruising with his family about 30 years ago came across a cat swimming this side of the Barrier -fished it out took it home and it lived a long and happy life with them, they advertised but no one claimed it.

A good trick for splicing these thin ropes is using a thin piece of welding wire folded in half. Push it up the rope the wrong way then slot the tuck into the folded bit and pull the core back in - rather than using a fid to push it through. A bit like this:

It's like the third cat this year to fall off a boat and swim ashore are Kawau! How/Why is this so common?

And not to mention the 500 tonnes of coal a week coming through Auckland port to be burnt at MereMere to make our clean electricity and power these ludicrously expensive 'clean' ferrys. But hey lets not get the facts in the way of a nice story. Fullers are clever, building a hybrid that will run to Waiheke or wherever that can take the inevitable knocks from wharves etc, whilst waiting to see if the full leccy ones work before offering to run them for AT.