DrWatson

This is because that's what intelligent folk do. They know they don't know everything, so they reach out to experts who know more than they do.

Science is not a crutch. The regulations are a result of the scientific evidence of the population decline. That science is peer reviewed. In this case the reports of Mackenzie and Clement have been reviewed by their peers, the Scientific Committee of the ICW. "15.3.3.1 REVIEW OF ABUNDANCE ESTIMATES The Committee agreed at last year’s meeting to review the abundance estimates for Hector’s dolphins intersessionally (IWC, 2016t, p.365). A formal process was established intersessionally following IWC procedures for such review including the creation of an Intersessional Exp

No Yes, and you also pretty much did exactly the same with this statement in general. You took an idea (a subjective idea) presented it as a fact and made it general. The greatest issue with scientific studies is that science is hard and it does take a lot of knowledge, and brain power to evaluate the work - that’s why we use peer review, and don’t simply allow Larry and Sindy from X - formerly known at Twatter - and their millions of stupid idolisers to determine what’s true and what’s not. Popularity is not peer review. Additionally, many people are

We need to make sailing fun again - fun for everyone who ever dreamed of being blown across a puddle in a walnut shell.

Yeah I spent about 12h in the English Channel pushing into 25-30 on Firefly. Started out with some very good swells, prob 6m with quite ugly sea on top. Was pretty glad it moderated and died away around 8pm (as predicted) - not sure I wanted to spend a whole night doing the same.

Huge assumptions here are that dolphins will know to stay away from the thing that’s making the huge racket, that said huge racket won’t confuse them, and that the visual identification of a big arse flying machine dragging it’s razor blade appendages in the water as an identifiable danger will be made by the dolphin. The approach speed may be the same but picking up an orca on your sonar or visually is going to be easier than picking up set of foils that have the frontal projection area of a toothpick. The BOI issue is different because the dolphins are/were starving - not being run d

Coming into dock, crewman - big guy - on the rail with dock line in hand ready to step off and make fast. He takes a big step as we’re prob just on a metre out. All good, he can make the gap, but his gammy knee buckles and down he goes between the dock and the boat with rapidly diminishing space. I slam the boat into reverse to back out a bit. Catastrophe averted but was damn scary. And he surfaced with the dock line still in hand to complete the task…

I found a report that was linked from the initial discussion piece whenever it was that it was notified. I’m not a marine biologist but the scientific rigour one would expect to be found to hang a policy like that on was massively lacking. The report was at best based on a level of science I would expect to find in a third rate primary school science fair. Mostly assumptions and negation of major untracked variables including a lack of evidence on food resource assessment and assumptions of human behaviour.

Agree completely. Wasn’t intending a comparison.

This whole discussion about dolphins has me thinking again about the dolphin policy in the BOI. Q. Has anyone actually read the scientific report and study upon which the “bylaw” was based?

At least the sun shone today while I holy stoned the deck still blowing dogs off chains, tho

Nice morning for it…. good angle, too

Yep! mind you it took me 12h to get here from home. It’s like living in Auckland and keeping a boat in Welly!

We just arrived in Brest. Got out of the taxi and it hailed, turned to rain after 10 min, and hasn’t stopped. That was 3h ago. Storm forecast for the next 2 days, lol…

hahaha, appreciate the effort, Jon, but I'm too tired to bite

I heard liquid luck weighs less than a 6 pack of Heineken. anyone got some specs on that build? Length, beam, dips etc? Pipi, single handed, came in a touch after liquid luck. Second mono over the line. Great effort for single handed!

Nah, no idea what you’re talking about….

Sailing is the most expensive way to go somewhere slowly…

Well I worked out it costs me €1 per NM to sail and about 80c per mile to motor…

Thing I’m most happy about with my electric motor is the removal of the petrol and the stinking outboard from my lazarete I think I will buy the next engine size up when and if this one craps out tho. A bit more oompf would be good.

I wired a gas detector into the fridge circuit, reasoning that if I’m onboard the fridge is on. As soon as I get onboard I turn on the power/fridge so I can have a cold beer after hauling all the sails out of the way etc. The alarm screams bloody murder 5x as it does its start test - which always scares the bejesus outta me, then I remember wtf the noise is. Later I go out to the gas locker and connect the gas bottle to the gas line. The detector sits in the bilge between the keel pump and the back of the fridge in the cabinetry that the saloon table is mounted on. I reasoned that a

I change ours out every 100h, Keeping the old as a spare (and also have a new spare available) We only do about 70-80h a year. Reminds me to do a preseason engine service in the next month or two.

Wow. That thing is getting down to Pogo displacement - could go like a scalded cat if used well. this would be my pick for coastal cruising - fast boats make great coastal cruisers because you can effectively increase your range while still keeping your job, lol.

I suspect those ones have already gone. But there are plenty of others. Most are really just junk. But they could be broken up into their parts and recycled carefully rather than being munched up. And buried as a homogenised mass. Some might have a fair bit of copper or bronze fastenings in them - if you wanted to painstakingly extract each nail etc. ….

Makes sense here. The boom is low and if you douse the sail the whole lot incl yard drop into the boat. No need to ruin a family Sunday afternoon with screaming kids and a trip to the hospital. further, in the early 2000s I was the tallest crew member and in wed night races I did bow on a 727. I kept an old bike helmet on board and used it. More than once it allowed a screwup to be nothing more than cussing out the cockpit. although sometimes that cussing want only coming from the foredeck - I think it’s fair to cuss the skipper out after he clacks the boom into your head while he’