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Deleted that post. Southernman got me thinking I shouldnt post until after second coffee! A little irreverent (have met them years ago) . I still stand by the fuel use of something like that when the world is crying about fossil fuel use.

Cool...if it ran on solar.

Westhaven has to be a "statutory authority" to bring anything other than civil action against offenders even if its private property. Civil actions can only succeed if there is a request for damages so they are right to say there is nothing (legal) they can do other than refer the matter to the police of council. IT doesn't stop them from seeking and issuing trespass notices as the area managers. Probably a way to deal with repeat offenders? Of interest, you say they enforce parking to produce "income" so I am assuming people get parking infringement notices? Are these issued by the marina i

The EU has the right idea. Just close the fishery as they did because those involved simply could not curb their ever increasing greed but with this Govt, thats never going to happen.

Yep.

Latest up date. The gland is no longer fizzing, stopped squirting it with white vinegar some time ago . Now it's slowing oozing a brown thick liquid! Seems to seeping out from the timber around it. What's going on!!?

Having to sit an exam to get a licence. Problem solved.

Trouble is, its not just a "few speeding fizz boats". Beccara is right, its bedlam! As our population grows (rapidly) more and more uneducated fools or worse those that simply don't give a sh!t ruin whatever peace you once valued in sailing have more money than sense put your life in danger and no one is there to stop them, you will welcome some kind of enforcement. At the moment we have none! If its only your life at stake then so be it but if your "non compliance" is a hazard to those aboard your vessel then I'm all for fines and more.

True but how can you enforce something when you have no idea who the offender is? Drive flatout or race through stop signs in your car and you are likely to get pinged but not so in a boat. The car has a rego number, not so the boat. That has to change and licensing boats will change that but of course, how many see sea fleas zipping about with no number when they are supposed to be registered and number displayed. Enforcement is the answer in my opinion and the fines would help pay for it.

Identification is the problem then when they do catch up with the tosser, proving who was at the helm is the other. Councils have an obligation to provide a safe environment both on the roads and at sea and of course funding is always the issue. Someone should point out "there's money in them there waters!" FINES! SEIZURES! FORFEITURE TO THE CROWN! enough to at leased pay someone to sit off Urquharts Bay and pull every dam twat up and give them some costly paper work. Our problem is its viewed as "self policing" so there is no issue but there is. Everyone reading this thread knows there is and

Fishy is dead right. Got a stack of video of idiots screaming past us (could've handed them a coffee or thrown it at them as they went past...that close) in the Tamaki River off Little Bucks years ago. Harbour Master "we need to see them ourselves" even though several were identifiable. A friend in a 27 tonne ferro had a twin powered fizzy pass him ON THE PLANE believe it or not, in the main channel going into Marsden Cove! Went to the harbour master at NRC and nothing done. MNZ simply said "contact the harbour master".

You can sail from Britain to NZ in a straight line, new map shows | Stuff.co.nz https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/110414449/you-can-sail-from-britain-to-nz-in-a-straight-line-new-map-shows Should give some a good laugh?

If that was the case your insurance bill would be about half what we now pay, you are insured?

We dont hear about it.

I am pretty sure if you could convince the regional councils and the government that there is a veritable fortune racing about everyday breaking any and all the rules (it feels like that at times!), all that revenue just waiting to be harvested by fines and seizures, maybe, just maybe some will start paying attention to speed etc. Licences just mean someone has had to at leased prove some knowledge of COLREGs or even the basics, isn't that a start? More and more vessels in the water and it's becoming open slather out there yet how many times do you see any patrol vessel out on the water other

CH got checked last week in Mangonui....past. Asked them what happens when fanny worm is found and told "you get a letter". They wouldnt expand on that but good luck avoiding them if you have it on your hull.

Basically there are no "harbour masters" north of the BOIs. I think the guy in Whangaroa (rebuilding a huge herreshoff in his front yard) gets out sometimes. The guy in Mangonui has no boat and runs the local motel, only deals with moorings and the guy in Houhora is a transport company owner who is never seen. The cops need either coastguard help or borrow a rib from fire if they have a water job and do no policing above BOI at all and that's only seasonal when they send a rib up for new year.. Farcical. I admit, in the time we have been up here it seems the idiots stick to themselves, usual G

As long as it not revenue gathering, I'm all for it! No end of idiots over summer that have no idea of the rules and just don't care. NZ Police maritime unit, where are they? Harbourmaster: all boaties should hold a licence | Stuff.co.nz https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/110392575/harbourmaster-all-boaties-should-hold-a-licence

Able to put your brain in an oven Lats!!? Kewl! Yep, navico confirmed if our TP32 was a horse they'd have to shoot it. Replacement out of the box on its way from Oz. Alls well and ends sort of well.

So, why are both of the "big" off the shelf makers still doing fluxgate in their TPs? Oh, thats right, "we make more money" selling them as a seatalk (talks to nothing else) or N2K option! So how many more dollars to buy and plug one of those in!?Yep, found it....$645 US.

There seems to be a big gap between the off the shelf plug and pray TPs to the all stainless machined stuff. And price too! The market place needs a new player, they would clean the lot up! I tried using the TP32 under wind N2K and worked OK but very sluggish compared to the surgical rubber setup I have made running off the boom which works on most points, no good downwind, its all hands on. Under power no problem but as you said IT and KM, the loads on the tiller undersail I think exceed its limits. Definitly need some quick response hydrolic setup that has GPS and fluxgate.

Trouble here IT is I am talking electrical faults, not stripped worm drives or burnt out motors. Its far from a load issue, its bodgy main boards with dodgy solder joints and components along with thin cases with flimsy screw standoffs. No water ingress, both our ST1000 and TP32 well covered and protected from direct sunlight and both have faulted, the TP in less than 6 months of what I would not call strenuous use. A shame Pelagic are not serious about selling their pilots here ? Or for that matter adopting N2K instead of 0183 For KM's info, a optocoupler is used to isolate DC from sensitive

Where did that come from!? Reading between the lines? How being "a ruff bastard" makes a tiller pilot pop its mosfet optocoupler!? Or for that matter, have a 6 month old TP32 suddenly lose its ability to hold a course? So please do enlighten me as to what mistake I made?

Same with the old Navico. Had a TP10 that went through hell several times (bloody Cape Turnagain!), buckets of water and rain and survived. Came with the ship 2002 and was still going strong when I sold it last year but it started taking an "interest" in rocks and other boats. Go below to make coffee and pop your head up to see its charging off towards the nearest hard stuff. The cast alloy gears and worm drive seemed a lot gruntier even though it's only supposed to be used on a small keeler. It's all plastic now.

Better "pants" than just Y fronts! Wasn't going to wade through the manual but the separate drive I think is only "seatalk". You need the AP controller to operate it and that uses N2K. Typical "gaymarine". The trouble we had with Lusty Blunder over our ST1000 which incidentally I solved the problem, their tech in Akl couldn't. They wanted about $300 for a new board as the nmea0183 didn't work. I looked at the circuit diagram and saw there was a mosfet optocoupler. I said rip one off a old board and solder that on, now works. When I looked inside the ST1000, was surprised how shoddy the thi