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To be honest I actually thought it was Des who said "if it looks right, it is right."
But at the end of the day, I'd take the boat with the best performance, although my requirements for performance are likely very different to other folks.
Weatherliness, speed, ability to enter shoal water, not too much windage, masts on tabernacles, impossible to sink, DRY, self righting, comfortable bed, standing shower, decent dunny, great galley, plenty of cold space, clothes washer ... these are all features I would consider very high up on my list.
I actually feel that the two features, good looks and functionality are not mutually exclusive. If one is lacking then the designer has failed.
The essence of good design, as explained to me by an experienced designer is. "Good design = Works well looks good."
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Like this one?
One has to look twice to see the mooring pile and that you're not actually anchored over the cable...
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Basically the same as the McMurdo I posted a month or so back.
http://www.mcmurdomarine.com/regulatorydocuments/ais-mob-devices/281-mcmurdo-smartfind-s20
Given the cost of an AIS transceiver for your boat and that these doohickees are only a couple hundred a pop, you'd be mad not to have this if you're going to cross an ocean on a yacht with more than one person aboard.
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hmmm, one is trivialising and comical, the other powerful. One seems disrespectful, and the other respecting. It does however, kinda look a little like Keith Richards....
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Yeah, I saw that, too.
I found the plans for the boat ramp and carpark from 10y ago.
But I don't know if they are sticking to this original plan or not.
It will result in positives and negatives. At the moment it's very quiet down there, a dead end road with almost zero traffic. And at spring low there's about 10cm at the ramp at present. so I don't know if they are going to dredge or what. It'll also increase the boat traffic through the moorings there, and that could prove problematic...
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So apparently, 10y after building the ramp and the floating pontoon, the council have decided to push ahead with actually getting land access to the ramp...
I can't read the full article, does anyone have access or a transcript of this?
It'll be the only boat ramp (public) on the southern side of the inlet, and it's 200 m from my place, so I'd like to know a little more.
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I think they're offering that much for someone to remove it, no? it's one of those reverse auctions...
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Comanche shaves over a day off the 13y old record set by Mari Chas
new time:5D 14H 21M 25S av 21.44knts
from Sailing anarchy
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so this is a really old thread, but i just wondered what happened to the fledgling Hokianga sailing club, I'm digging around and I find this:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11351259
Which is so bloody typical,
But then this,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11388586
Which is again, awesome.
These guys should hold an annual challenge with the kids from Kerikeri...
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I think it is vitally important that we recognise tribalism and privatisation as the same thing, and that this is a societal cancer that leads to a divided society, and a class war.
The failure to recognise the public estate as belonging to all New Zealand citizens and residents, and to transfer the ownership, governance or guardianship away from everyone and to a select few determined by race or wealth, is one of the greatest disasters about to befall NZ.
A successful country and society must be united. A society divided by race, tribe, wealth, religion, or any other factor will lead to a disaster, and there is no place for these concepts in a modern progressive country. Any policy that legitimises these traits is a step back into the dark ages.
I firmly agree that past wrongs must be addressed, however, proportional representation is of key importance in modern life.
The world has changed, and despite the wrongs of the past, new people, who also have rights must be accommodated.
Many forget that democracy is not about majority rule, but about fair representation.
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Indeed,
So has anyone used one and to what level of accuracy can you determine an angle?
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Just idly sitting around musing about things learnt and things forgotten, then I wondered if we might start a daily quiz?
Now, I know that some of you will wonder why anyone WOULDN'T know what X or Y is or how to do A, B and C while smoking a pipe, splicing a shroud and fighting off a swarm of flying sharks, but the folk who frequent this forum are many and varied, and there is an equally varied amount of experience and knowledge.
Bringing that knowledge into the open and sharing it around can only be good, no? I for one, know that I'm not the most learned or even close to it in terms of things nautical and the opportunity to learn stuff, pretty much any stuff, is something I find pretty cool.
So let's see how this goes....
What would (could) you do with this? You'll have to imagine it's about two feet long and the pieces intercept at 90°....
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oooo, what is it?
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... But as someone else commented, stick to the knitting. I don't see CG as a group that should be having input into policy....
Couldn't agree more.
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so... giving up sailing?
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I have been a member but not at the moment.
In general, I think they provide a very valuable service, and lots of volunteer time, and this is to be applauded.
However, I have also noticed a trend towards authoritarian behaviour amongst some volunteers. The same behavioural traits can also be noticed when you give some volunteers a fluoro vest and ask them direct traffic at a fair, for example. Coupled with this can be a tendency to judge the actions of others in a condescending and or patronising manner. One must remember that, by and large, the skipper of the vessel in distress is still the skipper, and will most probably know the vessel and her characteristics far better than a crew coming to render assistance.
Also, there can at times be a bit of a cowboy attitude - I remember once, when I still had a TV, watching a reality show wherein a Coastguard unit responded to a serious situation - A head injury or a stroke onboard a yacht. In effecting the transfer of the injured crew member, a Coastguard volunteer leapt aboard the yacht and cut the port side life line - ostensibly to make the transfer simpler - this of course created a very dangerous situation and it was only minutes, maybe less, before a crew member grabbed the lifeline and ended up in the water between the two vessels.
In another incident I witnessed a tow line being cast to the foredeck, complete with a "heaving shackle" in the stainless eye. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the shackle will at least damage something on the foredeck, or something far worse if the foredeck crew does't receive it quite right.
Couple these incidents with some others such as speeding within 50m of other vessels, and the odd near miss, and it makes one a little cautious.
I will, of course, become a member again when I move back to NZ, because I'm not so arrogant as to believe I may never need assistance, and I'm happy to help fund such a service that can and does help improve the actual safety of people on the water, but I won't be calling for help unless the water is up to my knees, or I can see the coast of Chile on the horizon.
So in summary, a great service run on minimal budgets, doing necessary work, including and very importantly, education, but at times a little more humility wouldn't go a miss...
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Matt is the man for OpenCPN. I suspect he'll be along soon...
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Ah, nice one, the running backstays. Forgots about them.
Just bought Andersen 40s which should do for the halyards, can be upgraded to elektiks
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looking at your deck layout:
The winches seem to have popped up like a crop of pimples on a teenager.
Do you actually use them all?
I'm actually interested from a cockpit/deck layout perspective...
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I looked into this last year, if you choose to live out of NZ and not have to come back I think once every 26 weeks your super can be paid to you wherever , however there is a catch , you are entitled to 100 % of your super if you lived in NZ all the time between ages 20 and 65, if you were away living elsewhere for eg 10% of that time then you will get only 90% of your super if you choose to no longer reside in NZ, so depending on your history it may or may not be worth a trip home twice a year. In some ways in NZ we are lucky, in Aussie super is means tested and many of us including I would suspect BP would be affected as the theshold starts around 250k and if you have around 1,2 million in assets { they include everything you own other than a modest family home] you will get nothing at all.
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That's my understanding of it, too.
I will never get 100% NZ super, I've spent 25% of my working life in Switzerland. But I might get 75% NZ super. However, having paid into the Swiss system for 25% of my working life, I'm apparently eligible for 25% of the basic Swiss govt pension.
So that should take care of the rates...
But I am interested overall in the living on a NZ vessel "does it count as living in NZ" thing. Perhaps it comes down to when you're in international waters? Because when you're on a NZ vessel inside another territory, it's the laws of the territory you're visiting that you must obey.
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In this case I agree with Dtwo - I have never seen any use for my registration cert, other than clearing in and out of countries. It's just another bureaucratic charge as far as I can see, and surely the overhead of keeping a simple register is not worth $1K a year.
It's a five year registration, no? so 200 bucks a year.
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Ok so it wasn't this weekend... finally signed on a committed bow(wo)man for the boat
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When we get him back here we can probably try him for the actual crime of stealing the boat, in a NZ court. different system, different crime.
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That's interesting, and is a remarkably different document to the one I last read (middle of last year?). I see that this document is dated Nov 2014, so I wonder if there have been some updates? Lemmie see...
Ok here it is on this page:
http://www.customs.govt.nz/features/charges/dutyfree/Pages/default.aspx#
One tab called Concessionary entry for boats and aircraft
the one directly under it called: Concessionary entry for boats for first time immigrants
When entering New Zealand to live for the first time you may import boats (of any size) without payment of Customs duty. The concession, however, is subject to all the following conditions:
- You have arrived to live in New Zealand for the first time; and on the date the boat is imported you hold a document authorising residence in New Zealand. (Brief holidays or exploratory visits do not exclude a person from qualifying for this concession.)
- You have personally owned and used the boat for at least one year before the date of your departure for New Zealand; or one year before the date on which the boat or aircraft was surrendered for shipping; or one year before the date of its departure for New Zealand where the boat or aircraft is imported other than as cargo – whichever is earlier.
- You give a written undertaking that, if the boat is sold or otherwise disposed of within two years of the date of its arrival in New Zealand, you will make payment of the Customs charges that would normally have been payable; and you give a written undertaking that the boat will not be used for hire, or for the transport of cargo, or the carriage of passengers, or for any other commercial activity or reward, within two years of its importation.
Leased boats and aircraftIn some cases the boats may have been either:
- leased by you, or
- purchased by you through a hire purchase agreement.
This concession will still apply as long as you have:
- Possessed the boat for at least one year prior to the date of your departure for New Zealand; or one year prior to the date it was surrendered for shipping to New Zealand – whichever is earlier.
- Complied with the terms of the lease or hire purchase in full: prior to property in the boat passing to the importer; and prior to importation into New Zealand.
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Last updated: Friday, 15 April 2011
It's the "first time immigrant" clause, so it doesn't really work for everyone who grew up in NZ...
When I move back to NZ, my wife will accompany me.
She will be a first time immigrant, and she owns the boat (all construction bills paid for by her from her account).
I just hope it's still the same when we finally cast off for NZ...
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AIS sart plb combo
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Ah I see there are two versions. You wouldn't want two have two separate ones? With them combined you have to choice but to send AIS signal to your mates to pick you up AND a full on emergency... so you're picked up, let's say, in 15-25min, but by then the helo is on the way... Now you gotta call and cancel.
But the other one is that you might not be picked up, and then if you wait the 20min and decide that your mates just suck, you've already lost 20min of response time... Coastally, that scenario could matter.
But if you're in the ocean..?
Put it this way, If I fell over at 9pm on the way to Issy Bay, I'd have no concerns about pulling the pin on the AIS only one. But on the PLB, I might think twice...