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Talk to boat haulage, if you were a back load you may be surprised at how affordable a truck is. Once you look at time, buying all the extra crap we all reccomend, getting ready to sail? Just a thought?

It's not a great time of year to be going up the west coast, about now the big 960 lows start rolling by every 7-10 days in the Southern Ocean. So you'll need to pick a window then drop everything and go. I presume from asking on here you are probably not that experienced, so another vote for boat haulage. As an aside, if this is about looking to buy a boat in Wellington and taking it North then you are probably better to buy one up here since they are very cheap at the moment.

What BP says, I will add if you are planning on solo, you will be knackered by the time you hit Cape Reinga and over the top you have tides, currents and lots of marine traffic to keep an eye on. AIS would really take some pressure off in a solo situation but it is an investment. Have you just bought the boat? Does it have an inboard engine, if it has sat for a while you def want to look at the fuel, going off shore is gonna stir up the fuel tank, carry spare filters You will really have to pick a good weather window, getting the snot kicked out of you solo in a 30 ft boat will

I don't know, but I have had a long chat with a couple on the beach at Tindalls that this may have been. So noting it is just conjecture that this couple is the couple I spoke to. Short story is (the couple I spoke to) are "alternative lifestylers" and were living in a campervan. They had bought an old wooden launch and were excited about using that for boating and living on it. Possibly plywood, or at least wooden, as in not a modern plastic thing. Lets call it one of your typical end of life boats you find on moorings all around Auckland. It did not have insurance, they were keen for t

In addition to the other comments, I would say a multi day solo trip up an exposed coast with only 1 safe harbour is not really possible without self steering of some sort. If the boat is a very old style with long keel and can track straight, then it could be possible. A large factor in answering your question depends on what you haven't said. Are you intimately familiar with the boat and done several overnight or multi day solo trips? If so, then it is possible, but as Psyche noted, we are into late autumn / winter and the weather is going to become increasingly problematic. If the

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A decent feed today isn’t what it was even 10 or 15 yrs ago. Because you have fishing skills to can still catch them but the gross breeders are, ahh, rare. We have got used to having to work for a plateful. And baking the whole fish instead of filleting. Went to port Jackson recently, had to dive and chum with kina to get a response. Ended up with dinner, but I should have just shot a couple or Parore while I was collecting kina. Would have been a lot easier. I don’t spear much any more, and definitely not species that are slow breeders like red moki. ( Who mate for life and practically swim

The place is called Saltsjöbaden and is located SW of central Stockholm: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Saltsjöbaden#map=14/59.27928/18.30493 The main marina is located in the bay named Hotellviken. /Martin

Lives in the same marina as my boat: /Martin

This comprehensive RNZ article encapsulates the political commercial and public tensions over the crayfish resource and fisheries management in general. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542412/high-court-rules-2023-minister-s-decision-on-crayfish-catch-limits-unlawful The point is made that we do have a fisheries act (law) to regulate how the fishery is managed for sustainability, if the fishery is depleted (kina barrens and other factors) ) it implies government and industry are not in compliance ( literally breaking the law ? This is the basis for legal challenges by organisatio

Crays were available along from Milford and inside Rangi till the 70's

Barrier crays have already been severely hammered, people who has dived there over the last 30 years can testify to that. People who dive in areas where crays are functionally extinct get very excited when they go to places where the marine ecosystem is less damaged- they rip in and tell themselves stories that justify continued pillage, but in reality crays have been ruthlessly overfished virtually everywhere access is not problematic.

Capsize!

Turned out it was a dead gps antenna $100 Equal Electronics

Good article on why the wing collapsed. Always ease the jib! https://www.boatingnz.co.nz/2025/04/when-the-wing-folds-how-a-known-risk-brought-down-two-f50s/ Today the Boating NZ team had a unique opportunity to talk, at length, to a New Zealand boat engineer - who has been involved since the late 1980's in mast, sail and high performance boat design (AC, SailGP, and many more examples)

Private would take one short sighted set of management to run a stock to extinction before moving onto the next species. Plenty of existing examples of this to know it wouldn't work.

I've dived one spot in the pig group for 40 + years. They have come and gone a bit over that time and 5 years ago were in pretty good shape. But after a summer snorkeling in Fiordland I had another look couldn't bring myself to take any. Hopefully the "caluerpa fishing reserve" helps the population rebuild at the Barrier.

Its good news albeit the statement "the closure, starting from April 1, is to allow the lobster population to restore itself" is an admission that past governance of the fishery was a failure with multiple previous governments being equally to blame for allowing it to get to this point.

I am envious of this guy....

I can't find many specs for the Nova 28 online or in my database right now but I would think I could supply both a main and genoa in Tri Dacron for around 5k. If you have any basic dimensions then I can price it up properly for you or if the boat is in Auckland I could come down and measure it up then quote. www.roguesails.co.nz

Well that "word" is rather a decade out of date, if you check out the actual people involved in that organisation

Visited a couple of their shops September last year in San Francisco. Prices have gone up alot and stock holding terrible. I guess it comes down to the maths whether to buy from them, does [purchase price + freight + GST] converted to NZD give you a better outcome. I have bought quite alot of fittings directly from Garhaeuer, good quality at a reasonable price if you can get it sent to a US address. Also had good experience buying yacht fittings from Mauripro, https://www.mauripro.com/

Yes, but a lot easier with steering. Maybe a tiller pilot type as a temporary solution?

Unless I have this wrong its INEOS who have withdrawn, Athena Racing, representing the Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd (RYS), led by Sir Ben Ainslie is still a challenger and the challenge of record, not a lot has changed, still the same number of challengers as last time ?

When they say "can mount at any angle" they mean the Orca, not the boat.

no just getting ready for the Hong Kong Japan leg.

Installed and working Test run up to Whangārei Friday (if anyone would like to come for a weeks cruise, may include a day of Antifouling) Then Fiji June plus a short trip Hong Kong to Japan in between

So did the man go ashore to get supplies, and then couldn't get back to the boat. Coastguard were out for 4 hours just to get someone off. No mention of what happened to the yacht, did it drag onto the beach or rocks?

Next level tax avoidance

Will be interesting to see how the BF's go in Brazil, they seem to have the straight-line speed but the start's still seem to flip-flop between Masterclass or total Shite.

Seems like it's never been surveyed for whatever reason. Neither Navionics nor the LINZ 'paper' charts show it, though the LINZ charts at least have a note.

A bit closer to home.....

its probably worth trying, its tenacious to say the least. The TDS does not say it wont work on PVC but it does say to test on plastics. The main thing would be not moving the joint while it goes off, that and use plenty of masking tape as it truly is the devils creation

yep, scollies off Mckenzie bay, crays around Rangi in '79. Not hard to get a feed off noisies. Should include GB an all offshore islands from astrolabe to NC. Let the larval stream do its thing. Five yr minimum. Successive govts couldn't have fckd it up any worse, curious to know if private enterprize could do any better. Not that the resource should belong to PE.

The total catch for this area remains unchanged so does that mean the Barrier crays will get hammered?

Kiwi boat set to rejoin Ocean Race Conrad Colman is looking to involve as many Kiwis as possible for round-the-world race in 2027 For the first time in more than a decade, a New Zealand flagged boat is set to be on the starting line for the Ocean Race. While there have been plenty of Kiwis involved in the famed around the-world sailing race in recent editions, not since Camper made the voyage in 2012 has a New Zealand boat been involved. For the 2027 edition, Kiwi duo Conrad Colman and Rowan Gyde have founded Aotearoa Ocean Racing, which they hope can become something of a natio

technician time is not free.

Put in public moorings. No anchoring required. I'd pay a fee to tie up for a night or two.

How come sense applies in Auckland, where we're free to anchor in infected areas and are asked to simply check our anchors and collect/ dispose, or dump the weed where we found it, yet in the BOI they just close down the anchorages. In other words Auckland has an educational ,reasonable, workable response, Bay of Islands a draconian one. If there was just one success in the Bay, if they just cleared and opened one of the closed anchorages after all this money and all this effort, they'd have support. But they can't even do that. Not one of the areas closed what 2? 3 ? years ago has been o

Ac38 seems to be in trouble, challenger of record melting into acrimonious court cases , no venue, no rules yet , unless you are a billionaire trying to offload large amounts -who will be a sponsor of such an event ? or potential team ? Yes I know the hoards from Auckland that went enjoyed the event but that could have been anywhere , and it really has no connection to the yacht racing that most of us regularly engage in.

Beaut vid from Conrad Colman - how to gybe an Imoca 60. It's a busy playpen with a canting keel and a rotating mast

This device can replicate any sailing angle (either wind or heel) desired and assists in recounting the effects of said angles.

I believe all this gobbledegook is telling me that I am a luddite with my wool on the stays and tillerpilot steering straight from an old masthead unit.