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Thanks for the heads up. Hope you find your stuff, or some karma sorts out the perpetrators. The river has been trouble free for a while now, so a shame to hear it has changed. There is always a bit of ebb and flow (excuse the pun). I know of two live aboards who aren't on the river currently, one who moved off permanently, and one who is on the hard currently doing maintenance. I know the one on the hard has on occasion spotlighted and challenged delinquents in the middle of the night pocking around moored boats in borrowed dinghies. I know there is mixed views about live aboards, b

she gone! off to Tampa, Florida, to live her best life in the Gulf of Mexico. goodbye to the hardest, coolest, fastest, weirdest project I've ever had. 💚💚💚🌲🐺 awoooo!!

You know, I have been thinking about your post LBD - and it did give me a chuckle. However.... I have been lucky enough to be born in a western nation, I have worked my butt off for 40 years, I have no children (none that I know of 😆 ), no dependents (though I do help look after my elderly parents), no wifey (not through trying but sailing dreams and landlubber Kiwi gals not a good mix!) and a couple months back I went to a funeral for a lady boss of mine for many years, who retired some years ago now. During the funeral, her husband died of a heart attack during the funeral service - he

The advice here is free, the quality may vary, if I were you I'd contact a good local NA and pay for advice based on calculations and experience especially since your life depends on it. The localised loads from an unstayed mast are considerable, and the lack of bulkheads is concerning to say the least. Half bulkheads do very little, ring frames may be helpful or not....

As liveaboard I've never caught a thief, but i have towed several boats up the river, rescued a boat when the pile actually broke, secured countless sails and canvas covers and pulled lots of debris and plastic out of the river.

There is so much wrong with this entire saga, but its a classic example of how pressure groups can get their way in local politics.

so does this mean that all the opponents' arguments about how the boatyard is a toxic waste dump and that's why they want it shut were... lies? lies to get their way?! hmm... I no longer have a Wolf in this race so 🙃 I guess I get to watch the erasure of the infrastructure for Auckland's community of boaties from the sidelines now. still a bummer.

Does this apply to houses, cars, partners?

Please dont encourage him.....

Hey Booboo, Ive found your new sub woofers, your going to need bigger boat!

OOOoooo ....This is gunna be expensive.... mind you that is only an estimate!

I hauled out for an anode change the sail drive leg on my Volvo MS25S. Thanks to Volvo's design genius the anode is not a split ring and requires the complete disassembly of the folding prop assembly. 2 years ago I noticed that the flats on the prop bolt were rounded and decided to replace it with a new one, purchase from Ovlov. Removing the bolt this time resulted in the threaded section sheering off from the plate. This is not due to corrosion. Volvo agreed. Therefore, it can only be a manufacturing issue, and the dark areas in the photo suggest this to be the case. I thought I wa

1972?! To have just found that, your chart table must be in another dimension, like the Tardis and my partners handbag

A Piedy and a ross 930! you buy both and still have less hulls than the wolf....

One late autumn day many years ago I was approached by a guy in a dinghy while attending to my boat. He asked if I had been burgled. No, why? I asked. He told me someone had broken into the cabin of his boat and stolen all his matches and his fire extinguisher. Nothing else. Nothing valuable. Who? Why? An arsonist suffering from indecision? /Martin

Have you purchased or are you searching? I was going to toss it, but hey that was my only national title. I never rose to such glory again.

Our cleaning mix is: 1 litre spray bottle from M10. Into the bottle put - cup of white vinegar - teaspoon of T Tree oil. -top up with water. Shake to mix. With the T Tree oil it smells real good. afu

As with many things time has changed the common practice, with many of the well campaigned NZ keelboats it was a badge of honour to paper the main bulkhead with plaques -but now not so much- apart from some of the ocean races. And I have observed some great displays at owners houses or offices these days -which is probably more fitting.

A box of beer was a deal then😎

What!! No way, mongrel things, never been happier to lose something!

last 2 vessels had ploughs and never trusted them . Had more than enough chain.,I seem to find that can/bottle etc never dug in even added more chain.The only time it set was in Man o war only to find next morning we had hooked the cable to pakatoa,managed to retrive it. Ended up with a kewene ,no issue.

If that’s the case yes I have an Irridium go, but I’d do a video call to doctor if i had a medical emergency Mini is 12v thIs will be the issue with dealing with a government department, the rules will be the rules. Administered by people that have never sailed offshore in a small vessel YNZ have had a shocker here

You think there will be offshore races anymore?

Just done my second Fiji -NZ in 6 weeks with SL Very impressive, full connection all the time as if you were at home was still on the fence for my boat next Islands season as I have a ‘I go’ and you definitely get that not connected feeling Then I get an email this morning as we have SL at home the following for the roam package, I’d just need to switch to 50g priority for the week each way Starlink Mini Offer - ends December 31 $324 $649 Mini Kit + $55/mo $90/mo service Starlink is offering a Starlink Mini bundle to select Residential customers through th

Based on my last 10 years experience of never dragging I would say so. Manson is self righting and sets quicker and deeper.

Sailed into Opua last night on a foreign registered vessel, waiting clearance this morning. 5days 8hrs Denarau to Opua. I was a Cat 1 inspector, I foresee offshore registration being more the norm going forward I am going offshore in my boat again next season, so am going to start the IVC process soon just to see how it all works out As an inspector our role was more to coach the applicant through the whole process, I can’t see 3 people employed by Wellington doing this. I’ve recently started “Pacific Cruising Coach” to help anyone with the whole process of completing an o

Was speaking to a guy on the wharf at the river a couple of weeks ago that had cameras on his boat. They were on the spreaders. AliExpress jobbies. Solar powered I think, can't remember if they were SMS linked, but fairly sure they bluetooth to a device / phone for easy download. He was happy with them. Affordable and effective by all accounts. He put them on the spreaders so the couldn't be nicked as well

Raymarine, and the plug is male- 5pin. I think off a RAymarine i50 system

I did a berth swap for a weekend some years back, put my boat in Westhaven and the other guy had my berth in G H. Came to hop on the boat on Sunday for a regatta and found that it had been chained to the dock. Turns out Westhaven management weren't to happy being cut out of a weekends rental 😬

Just did a delivery from Fiji to NZ with the roam 50GB Plan. 6.5 days and we used just over the 50GB. We did have 1 crew member working a couple of hours a day, made video calls back to family most days just because we could, oh and enjoyed watching MotoGP live in the middle of the Pacific. Was a game changer for weather routing, updates done in seconds etc.Couldn't fault it really, except you don't really get that disconnected feeling....

Mine is 3 yrs old, ready to do it again. Much easier this time as the substrate is fine. 2 days tops.

...and they are back. Dubai windless, like watching overgrown Paper tigers.

Believe it or not it was in the same locker as my sextant and tables. F**k I'm getting old!

You really think so? Looks like he's getting hung out to dry pretty badly to me... Just got caught to far to windward and couldn't sail low enough to get back in touch.

I bet you've scared a few thieves though. Probably without even knowing it. You probably left them traumatised and needing therapy. After all you do have a habit of putting that photo of you in drag and fishnet tights on the interweb. Jokes aside though, I think just by you and the other live-aboards having a presence on the river helps greatly. Without naming names, the live aboard that parks beside us has said he's spotlighted / challenged delinquents after dark. Doesn't happen often, but when things do happen, there are eyes and ears about.

I wouldn't assume that. I'd argue you are applying too much logic as to why people nick sh*t. I think a lot of it isn't logical. Either on drugs, opportunist, boredom or shits and giggles. Sure there will be examples of people thieving items for their financial value or specific purpose, but I wouldn't think that is boaties nicking sh*t to use on their own boats. I'd assume that is stuff easily moved on for a bit of cash. A lot of the examples of theft from the river I've heard of is stuff that is easy to move. Especially tools, as in FLC's case. Fishing gear and outboards are also up there. A

I've done something similar to this. 40 yr old kauri log, tiller steering. Have an under deck hydraulic pump (Octopus) running a ram in the lazerette. We have a short steel arm coming off the back of the tiller to rudder stock block (into a slot into the lazerette). The ram is in a sealed box in the lazerette. When the AP is off steering is basically unimpeded. It is a tad heavier than when the hydraulic ram is not connected to the tiller, but is perfectly manageable, noting it is super light in the first place. This gives us the ability to have a powerful and reliable hydrauli

What's worse is that you it know its most likely another boatie, who else has would bother for a small ticket item?

Ever tried VMG flat running in light winds on a wide powerfull foiling IMOCA 60?

All my plaques have stayed with vessel and when brought vessel had some plaques,so just carrying on tradition. Bit hard to glue some to the r/c yachts I have had though😁

I vote for the memories collection, the new owner will make their own.

I think it will come to who picks up the new breeze first. The boats further west , while sailing faster have yet to find the parking lot.

A few years ago my daughters found some swimming medals from 50 years ago in a drawer somewhere. They made them into earrings.

The Landing Concept Plan Refresh Dear Submitter, For your information, the attached revised draft concept plan for The Landing will be tabled at Ōrākei Local Board’s business meeting on Thursday 21 November for a formal decision. The accompanying report can be viewed in the board’s business meeting agenda at https://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/. In response to the board’s last resolution (link here) on this project made in November 2023, the attached draft concept plan has been changed to accommodate space for a haul out and hardstand service. This is in anticipat

As above, you are limited to the stroke of the unit combined with resistance of drive in standby mode.

No, you can still steer but I don't make any wild movements on the tiller.

Job done by Stainless Bending in Otahuhu. All good 😀

102 boats entered, 67 started, 38 finished. The winning boat (on line) stopped, and rescued the previously winning boat, then continued and still got there first!