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Brace yourself for your next mooring fee- this year in our local mooring area on the shore, the maintenance bill for two that I know of was 5500 for 20 ton vessel and 3400 for a 5 ton vessel. Thats maintenance so I suspect a full mooring install on barrier given the remoteness and depth, and having to wildly ovespec them that each one would be 10k or more. We are talking millions in setup and the ongoing legal issues with insurance, and the management etc would be a nightmare. "How much does your vessel weigh sir?" Certificate please, do you have insurance, certificate please, sig

Cited in this context means specifically noted in the relevant legislation as being a standard that must be complied with.

No Iwi living at the Mercs??

Is that a lead acid battery filled with seawater?😁

I am not aware of any citations to court judgements. The only references to citations in this thread have been to secondary legislation, namely, Maritime Rule 40. Unless your marina or other some other entity has some rules that you are contractually obliged to adhere too, I can't find anything preventing this - so long as if you do not have AC power - then it is much greyer For a bit of thread drift, I got myself some Sodium-ion cells the other day. Nothing in any standard, legislation or anywhere else about Na-ion batteries

CarpeDiem is 100% correct. It is not the courts but the government (by way of legislation) that determine which standards and which version of that standard must be complied with. There are hundreds of NZ standards covering all sorts of areas available. Most of those are simply best practice (or perhaps not) but only the standards and the specific version of that standard cited in relevant legislation can be enforced by the courts. As in the example above re marinas there is nothing stopping any organization requiring people to comply with any standard in order to use their pr

After talking with a few more people they reccommended using a high grit sandpaper to see how deep it went, luckely its just the top layer so using wet 600 sandpaper ive gotten most of it off and its just whats left down deep in the weave. Here is a side by side view. Hope this helps anyone in the futer and if yous have any ideas on how to get the last of it out id be keen to know. Cheers fellas

Now why doesnt MPI/Council or Iwi drop 2 hundred moorings in affected areas and charge a over night fee? $10 per night max 2 nights,then your friends could raft up.Hmm new years party in the making.

Standards don't get cited by the court - that's a misunderstanding. Standards get cited in legislation (or in private policies). Two examples: New Zealand Marinas have "cited" AS/NZS 3760 - In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment and RCDs - Marinas have set a private rule, that requires users of shore power to have tested and tagged cables - this is not a legal requirement - it is a private requirement of the Marina, based on industry best practice. This standard is not "cited" in any NZ legislation. MartimeNZ Rule 40 (link), has cited AS/NZS 3004.2:20

It really is a fundamental safety element to be able to parallel the house batteries to start the engine when the start battery has an issue. I've never heard of anyone successfully push-starting a boat. In my view not being able to do this, or having questions marks over doing this is a major red flag for Lithium. I really don't understand how everyone says lithium are so great when all these issues are hanging around. As an aside, when I was looking at Lithium batteries, one of the suppliers made a point of telling me the BMS was fully serviceable. I was rather confused as to why y