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Fecking awesome. An organisation walking the walk where useless fecking governments can't be arsed. And one less poaching vessel in operation. Pity they won't face justice, but an acceptable outcome.

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This says distinctly otherwise: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11403767 "Mr Holland said it was now up to the couple's insurance company to decide what happened to the yacht. 'They may bring it back or say the cost of repairs and bringing it back are more than it's covered for so we really don't know what's going to happen to her yet,' he said."

At the risk of a brief thread drift - WTF is "STUYA"?

Manoeuvred the love object into position over the ramp high tide Thursday evening in the remains of the daylight in order to dry out and let tame expert crawl over and pronounce judgement Friday. Misjudged the temperature and spent the second-most uncomfortable night ever on board shivering in an inadequate sleeping bag. Tame expert turned up on schedule and lived through my exposition of the known skeletons-in-closet list; I got my first whiff of the vinegary contents of a 100% genuine osmotic blister, and we have a tentative way forward. This is likely to involve removing the keels to get th

Opinion? Sure! Informed opinion would be a different story. I'd rest up and thus enjoy the regatta.

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One word: "Deliverance" Two words: "No wind"

The moisture "from" the keelbolt was in fact coming _past_ the keelbolt from somewhere else, above the waterline and almost certainly a window. Nothing to do there. Weekend spent acquiring, assembling and filling shelves to create the Great Wall of Boat. Removed pretty much everything from the vessel so the poor bugger fingered to eyeball her this Friday and and draw me up The List can see what he needs to without my extensive debris field in the way. Unintended consequence: Two inches of anti-foul previously hidden below the waterline, horribly visible and revealing the hull to be in desper

Finally got out to the boat yesterday, only to discover evidence of seepage from yet-another-keelbolt. Since the last one had no head left and popped out when gently tapped from underneath, I think this coming Saturday is spoken for. The sooner I can organise this winter's heavy engineering, the better...

Stand by for one from my dog...

Something to consider (courtesy of the RYA): Set up some tackle and then stash it somewhere, so that "in the unlikely event" you can winch someone back aboard without their active assistance.

Highly enjoyable day yesterday drying the beast out at the bottom of the road to replace a leaking keelbolt. Extraordinarily pleased with self - multiple reconnaissance trips at various states of tide and some careful thought enabled me to position her precisely where intended first time; right on the edge of the usable gravelly mud but without blocking the ramp - although as it turns out I had the place to myself all day, bar a few dog-walkers. (Something to be said for the Far North...) Bolt done and dusted, nothing really to do but chill out with the iPod till the tide came back in... life'

Well done that man! Photos?!

A Good Weekend on the water. Tested the latest iteration of the Skunk Works software... getting there. Then, with a view to swapping out a keel bolt this coming Friday, set about doing the necessary to let me dry the beastie out at the "ramp" at bottom of the road. Lots of fun with a stake that has "vampires!" written all over it, some chain and a couple of floats to create a temporary deployable mooring. More fun hanging off this contraption by the nose while vectoring the tail around with the outboard... God I love messing about in boats. Then wasted 90 minutes of my life watching Gravity,

That's about the full and complete extent of my knowledge!! _IF_ your intentions in the Inlet include the Pickmere Channel and above, then it is most definitely tide-restricted... drawing 0.6 my current rule of thumb is 1/3 tide minimum and then proceed cautiously. But I'd be consulting the likes of Bimini Babe, Sealegs, etc.

What it seems to be is someone's vanity project, driven by a small number of people arrogant enough to believe their (our) preferred recreational activity has some god-given right to displace other people's, apparently because it's "Sport" with a capital, sacred "S". Occasionally they throw in disingenuous crap about playgrounds for little kiddies, too.

So far, not being involved in the Classic... continued with some very cool software (see Skunk Works thread...). Then ferried a pile of stuff out to the boat in anticipation of a day's testing tomorrow. At which point I noticed that the damp patch in the carpet observed last weekend hasn't dried up and therefore isn't just some transient spillage. Turns out one of the port keel bolts is weeping slightly. In the midst of my preparations for hari-kari or at least an unpleasantly expensive trip in a travelift, it has dawned on me that this is another situation where having twin keels might save s

Nope! Put the kettle on and waited. In retrospect, I _should_ have used the time to go walkabout and see if there wasn't deeper water nearby... Bloody nice-looking piece of kit. Well done!

Currently aground in the Pickmere Channel! Decided to conduct a low speed probe at low tide and establish the actual depth limits... seems have found 'em. Deliberately picked an incoming tide so will be free shortly, but the learning here is not to trust the depth sounder in shallow water...

Certainly not; by definition "all around" would include the campground.

Cure to that is quite simple: Renew the lease And with 4 out of the 6 elected board members supporting the park, that just got more likely.

_Your_ opinion, and at best, argument ad hominem. At worst, just plain name calling. It doesn't help advance your cause.

Looking _very_ slick

Took the love object to Russell and back yesterday. A complete and utter mind trip, to the point where I've been more or less useless for any productive task today and have instead spent a lot of time watching the video. Mostly sunny with at worst a hazy overcast and light easterlies. High point was heading north from Russell across the bay on a close reach, light swell producing a gentle rolling action and the tillerpilot doing all the work... could have very happily dozed off... although I did sit up and take notice when the R Tucker Thompson hove into view... Didn't quite manage to lay