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1st thing to do is have your card company decline the transaction and then force the vendor to come back to you. Their f*ck up - their effort to resolve.

that looks really really poor

on a boat that size ditch the idea of a furling headsail as well and run a bungy chord up the hanks to haul it down.

Hmm - I reckon a 50/50 call at best on wearing a jacket. Being trapped under an upturned hull with a life jacket on is a scary prospect.

Which is ironic given his voting bloc!

But a lot more would make a . . . Wall?

At the squadron

Fish - i agree - but a story stating that exactly the same sh*t that has always gone down, is still going down, is not a story. There - that's​ my opinion! Oh and the fact that TNZ don't really make much of this sort of sh*t shows you that they know exactly what they're up against - have always known​ - don't really give a sh*t and are just hell bent on doing what they can with what they've got to try and get the f**kin thing back. No different to the days of KZ 1

yawn . . .

wow - that works! Here's the paper referring to arrival of fanworm into Lyttleton and Auckland. Suggests it was probably introduced in '07 - 1st detected in Lyttleton 03/07, Auckland 08/10 - decision to suspend culls 02/10 - elimination efforts abandoned by MAF in 06/10 - paper submitted in 12/10. So MPI (then MAF) let it in in '07 but had given up trying to fight it by 02/'10 - wonder if the TA's got the memo! In 2013 they publish this http://www.mpi.govt.nz/document-vault/3688 Oh - and of course in 12/16 they had the arrogance to publish this - 6 years after they gave up tr

Wow! Pass the tissue...S!

HT - the issue is whether it will compete with native filters thereby upsetting the ecosystem - noone knows Interestingly I found this recently, http://www.environmentguide.org.nz/issues/marine/marine-biosecurity/im:2097/ Apparently MPI have "decided" that its no longer feasible to erradicate fanworm yet they are working with TA's - ??? Tried to cross-reference this with info on MPI's website. Search their site for fanworm and you get multiple hits - try an open them and they are no longer reposited there - f88kin joke. gave up - took another sip from my pint and then felt a

I just googled "lashing spars together" and got lots of images - good starting point. You are really just wanting to 'clad' the joint - so you could just try a 1/2 or 1/4 mock up on some plastic tube with el cheapo braid to see what looks good first and then as KM suggests involve the locat groups. I guess you could ask them to come up with the "best" design for the balance of the budget?

Yeh mate - I fully understood your intended tone and agree entirely with your response. The problem lies with the fractuious governance structure we have in this country (one of the reasosns the productivity commision report came out so daming of the RMA yesterday). In this instance, the territorial authorities are required by law to manage, maintain and protect the coastal waterways but are not permitted interfere with the oversight carried out by MPI whoe deal directly with the "upshot issue" - can't blame the TA's for that. In the construction/ design industry we have exactly the

Fish - the regulation is possible to be complied with and does not impose a safety issue. It's merely that ways to comply are, in the eyes of the shipping lines, eating into their profit, which in turn call the viability of our exports into question.

but gets back in the saddle

are we allowed to pass early judgement about the marketability of your current sailing partners ?!?

So great shots of the boat as well! Here's an article on 1 NEWS NOW I thought you might be interested in. 'It's definitely a relief' - Team NZ thrilled with revolutionary new boat design https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/other/its-definitely-relief-team-nz-thrilled-revolutionary-new-boat-design

An accident that someone fired arrow or an accident that it hit his shed. Report it - it may have happened​ in the area already.

KM said - The big bonus is though you get want you want and you know your boat better than most other know theirs. Amen to that - including the "still to do list" which is always bigger than most others for the same reason!

Interesting read. Pretty loaded transaction set up. https://assets.stuff.co.nz/interactives/2017/where-boats-go-to-die/

we did a five day cruise for our very first outing on Ballistic - 32ft open deck demountable cat.

indeed - unless of course someone gets killed!

no anger here dude! Just wondered why you think its evil. By your same arguement, speeding, red light running, failing to correctly indicate when entering or exiting a roundabout would be evil as someone doing any of those things could kill a loved one of mine. In fact driving a car generally could kill someone unfortunately. Like your discussion on dog vs human - or is it human vs dog!

Against the law - yes but evil, Kevin - really? It wasn't that long ago that those levels were legal - was his driving evil then?