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Epic! Would have been a few rough nights at sea or anchor but what a journey.

Thanks Zozza, My first overnighter was on a 25 footer to Mayor Island early 70s. "Aurora" Bought back memories.

I got some comments this week when I appeared on deck in bathrobe and slippers

Only part way through but who puts on a suit and tie to do a beer run?

Great stuff

AYBA has been fighting this since the beginning. Plenty submitted against it but were they all counted? Yes the give a little page is low for what we need, glad that makes some happy and perhaps its the constant negative comments that don't help either. We have also received support from many direct into the AYBA account, but are still short. The council needs money, so it shuts down a business that was giving it an income and now has to come up with funds to pay a third party for security, ramp cleaning, pontoon maintenance (already parts missing), fresh water costs (although

So now you're saying its nothing to do with Council responding to the weather, and its because the Council is broke? Not the most compelling of arguements when they fall over immediately. It wont cost Council anything to reinstate the hardstand. They don't have to fund it. Funding all the Matariki / Dewali / Pride celebrations costs the Council dollars, that is why we are broke. The hardstand was always self funding. It is the service that is required for biosecurity. Again, the Council's obligations under the Biosecurity Legislation don't stop , same as the Council's obligations don

Nonsense. Council isn't doing anything about the weather, or the response to the flooding. At best, Auckland Transport are dealing with the response to the flooding. Fixing roads, bus services etc. Council have nothing to do with any of that. Even the Mayor isn't doing anything (other than sleeping). Sure, the PR department have been tweeting a bit, and the Deputy has been doing pressers, that is all. But Council still have a legislative requirement to manage biosecurity. That requirement doesn't lapse cause it rained yesterday. Council maintains (wrongly in my view) that b

This was just the precursor to the main Judicial Review. This round was to try and get an Interim Relief to keep the hardstand operating till the main court case scheduled in September. The Council Biosecurity expert said there was no risk to Biosecurity by closing the Landing till the main Court case, even though her team had written a memo to the Orakei Local Board saying permanently closing the Hardstand was a Biosecurity risk. That combined with the actual court case not that far away, the judge considered there was not merit in forcing Council to keep the Hardstand open over winte

To sail with weed, fan worms, barnacles on the hull is the last thing any sailor wants. As we all know a clean hull is a "faster" hull. That antifoul coatings have been dumbed down to the point of almost being useless, in fact the manufacturers could probably be charged with false advertising, of course the price of it is as high as ever. The Authorities want us to conform to "their" requirements, in my experience very few of them have any knowledge of sailing, and say it is their way or the highway.

Im sorry Zoe but Id be very confident that none of the recreational boats in Nz were responsible for bringing Fan Worm or calupera to NZ. And won't bring the sea star. The focus has to be on international shipping. I agree that we need to take responsibility to stop spread now that it is here but there needs to as much effort in allowing effective control by mandating appropriate antifouls. The current ones aren't really up to it.

AYBA lost this Court Case. Auckland Council playing very dirty. Despite closing the hardstand and booting the operator, they have told the Judge they have not yet made a decision on closing the hardstand, therefore the relief AYBA seek cannot be awarded. The Court Decision re AYBA’s Injunction against the Closure of the Landing | Auckland Yacht & Boating Association