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I see skipper has decided to shoot the gap and do 'just' a RNI. Fair call. I'd be thinking hard about getting to Cook and turning around. East Coast with all the potential for floating timber seems like a scarey prospect to me.

Yeah I was really glad to see we've dodged this bullet again. Between my outboards, motorbikes and farm equipment biofuels are all bad news. And more importantly, all evidence suggests that biofuels have been a net emitter of carbon rather than a reduction in emissions so in practice its only making the climate worse.

As Waikiore says open all the hatches and let the current warm weather and any breeze do the trick, your "friend" was lucky its only fresh water it should be fine:-)

While its not raining (for now) open everything up and let the breeze blow through fresh water will dry.

Can’t see oil being viable. To highlight lustre of Kauri grain would require depth and gloss of coating and an oil that sets up. Any satining off or stipple will negate this. So can’t see clear non skid deck “paint” looking as good as varnish. Perhaps a penetrating oil and do frequent light coats, when it loses its even-ness. Try experimenting in an unobtrusive small test area. Raw wood to ~100grit with the grain and penetrating oil might have desired effect. I have successfully done hardwood bathrooms floors with west105 and 207 hardener, silane cloth and sugar crystals for anti skid.

We were sheltering from the cyclone at Barrier. Arriving there on the Friday. We have sheltered from a couple of cyclones and storms at barrier over the years. We have learnt not anchor in Kaiarara Bay ( we were saw triple 8 on the Saturday morn) or kiwiriki bay. These bays as well as very strong gusts funnelling down the valleys, also can have a lot of water flow potentially carrying fallen trees etc. Think back to the damage of the June 13 storm that destroyed the Kauri dam and flooded Barrier. All the logs in Forrestry Bay and Kiwiriki Bay you still see today are from that storm. The rain a

This is great, something positive after a summer of horrors. I am going to say it; Nigel is the best name ever for a solo sailor

I think Zozza, you will find a lot of launch owners are retired yacht owners that are no longer as mobile as they once were and have gone the launch way. Then there are those that have both. Not good to generalise.

Sorry that post says more about you than people on powerboats.

I have trailer stink boat.why time constraints.Yacht would sit on mooring unused for 2 to 3 months unused.Trailer boat in backyard cost nothing.would like a trailer sailer but can't be arsed rigging it for 2 to 3 hrsuse.there us a handy compound at kkb but need to live south of the Bombay's. No beers until home and majority of catch is given away to elderly neighbours.Who can afford $50 kg for snapper??

A sad indictment on you Zozza to judge a large number of people using such a sweeping generalisation simply by the type of boat they are on.

What is it about launchies and generators? Anchored in Bon Accord last weekend, a launch anchored about 50m away and as soon as main engines off, it's generator on until his bed time. Then in the morning, routine is wake up, generator on, left on until anchor up. Have these guys never heard of batteries? Another time a launch anchored about 20m upwind of me, started his generator and then the whole crew went across to a neighbouring boat for the evening. They just seem oblivious to the nuisance they create

Just been down and replaced my docklines, they were starting to get a bit tired so this was as good a time as any to replace them all. Took down sails and solar panels. I also went and inspected my neighbor boat, and its dock lines which looked like absolute sh*t. Am I out of line for going onto the neighbor boat and adding new docklines? I left their ones in place, just added more and made my ones slightly slacker so they should only kick in when theirs fail..

Waka and Drinks Trolley were out checking reefs on Wednesday.

Doesn’t look like it. Think they will sail around it or clear in to top of South Island then come up possibly Arbitare mid BOP and Distraction arrived in Westhaven at 5.30 this morning

Don't like the sound of that, will he get in before the sh*t hits?

Not long now, 16 days to go. Nearly all the boats have arrived in Auckland Poulpito mid Tasman Arbitare approaching East Cape Relapse sitting on the hard in Whangārei without a rig Simply Irresistible sitting in Westhaven without a rudder Its all about to get real for 33 yachts and 66 sailors

This is a well debunked myth and does the rounds every time there is a big eruption. published scientific estimates of the global CO2 emissions for all on land and submarine volcanos “lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year.” This is a fraction of the CO2 produced by human activity. In 2021, the global CO2 emissions from energy combustion and industrial processes alone reached a record high of 36.3 billion tonnes (or gigatons, GT), data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed ( here ). A graph by the IEA tracking the increase of emissions since 1899 is vi

Oh FFS

Best manual bilge pump is a frightened crew member with a bucket....

a big sponge

Great report, thanks. On that last point, I've done the 350, and the white island race, enjoyed them a lot. However, with the stance that RAYC took re the landing closure, I’ll not be entering any more of their races. Why support a ‘sailing’ club that doesn't support all the requirements of sailing

No one in NZ seems to want to recognise the effect that the Tongan volcano has had and is having on the climate, perhaps it doesn't fit the Climate change criteria? It is certainly being discussed in Europe and elsewhere. Many many cubic kilometers of ash , thousands upon thousands of tonnes of water (vapour) and of course our friend Co2, apparently more Co2 was vented than the industrial world has ever managed to put into the atmosphere! and of course many other chemicals as far up as the stratosphere