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america's cup quarantine base for the other teams
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https://giphy.com/gifs/mad-max-fury-road-n7kJKfusOe2jK/fullscreen
sorry can no longer post pics
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World series regattas in Italy and England have already been cancelled because of the pandemic.
The first chance for these new boats to line up against each other will be at a shakedown regatta in Auckland in December
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/121508841/americas-cup-foiling-like-never-before
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ouch, that white squall at the start looked especially nasty
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did someone say orwell?
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noticing a lot of newly deputised sheriffs in town
ambulance service sweaters patrolling aotea square
civil aviation jumpers stalking albert park
so i might throw a high-vis on and motor my dinghy through the moored boats on a newspeak "reassurance patrol"
NewspeakNewspeak is the language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstatenewspeak noo͞′spēk″, nyoo͞′-
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n.- Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.
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n.- A mode of talk by politicians and officials using ambiguous words to deceive the listener.
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meanwhile pressure by hunters appears to have paid off
Last week the ban was described as an "error" by the Robertson, as the Government came under pressure to allow the activity.
Hunting had been deemed risky and was banned under the lockdown, and according to Government advice issued last week, the outdoor activity would remain banned.But the Government reconsidered.
On Thursday, Robertson said Cabinet had agreed hunting on private land would be allowed under Alert Level 3, so long as hunters stayed within their region and stuck to their bubble.
Last week the ban was described as an "error" by the Robertson, as the Government came under pressure to allow the activity.
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you'd imagine they look at the call out figures
and a fair few have involved; idiot fishermen, tourists in kayaks, motorboats running out of fuel, and yachts hitting the ground or breaking something....
if it was winter, skiing would be out
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and here they say kayaking is out under level 3
Kayaking, like most other water-based activities, is not permitted at alert level 3 or 4 because there is an increased risk of COVID-19 being spread if participants require search and rescue services.
which doesn't appear to match some other sources...
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park in the right spot
"access is via tag only" ie no crew codes will be issued
just don't expect to leave the marina
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imho
if you are allowed to paddle a kayak under level 3
fish from shore
row out to a moored boat
of course you can "operate" a radio control boat from the water's edge
but you'll also need to be prepared for blind cultists trying to call down the wrath of god down upon you
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Following a tip-off from New Caledonian authorities, Australian police identified a yacht called the La Fayette which was believed to have been loaded with drugs around Norfolk Island.
The La Fayette was traced and intercepted about 50 nautical miles east of Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney.
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meanwhile
who wants to shoot something?
"Clearly hunting, for fairly obvious reasons, has some high risks attached to it.
But if it can be done safely that's what we're now assessing, and that will be finished as we come into early next week."
The Government has been lobbied to allow hunting by the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association, which in a statement said hunting was relatively "safe" when compared to the number of injuries caused by mountain biking, which would be permitted.
clearly we sailors are choosing to give up our rights to sail
by simply moaning to each-other and not firing a call to our local mp
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probably like many, have run out of things to do around the house
and the internet
and am now forced to watch what's on tv
fortunately have found the re-boot of "das boot" on tvnz on demand
what could be more fitting during a claustrophobic lock-down
than a ww2 submarine drama you just know has to end badly
the first few minutes should tell if it's for you
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/das-boot/episodes/s1-e1
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as an aside
there are 4 officially sanctioned, extremely limited and legal ways to bet on 'public races' in japan
mini-powerboat racing is 1 of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn5nuRkAxM
the others are
horse racing tracks, pro track cycling, called keiran, which has made it to the olympics
+ my fave is asphalt speedway
https://youtu.be/kus0Fc8LTEg?t=65
there is a also a certain fascination with baby racing
https://youtu.be/W9naCw229K8?t=48
and with the world and the internet being what it is
you can sort of combine the 2
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if you zoom out you can see a tanker about that distance SE of the chathams
expected ETA was about now
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-174.3/centery:-47.0/zoom:5
if it's the same ship, it's the world's first methanol powered tanker
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in this case presumably they were presumably packed with gear to aid pick-up by the ship; vhf, epirb, food+water, flares?
In the Life Raft Bay at Base Ohakea, a team of specialists look after the AirForces life saving equipment and package the 10 seater liferafts that plummet from aircraft to boats in distress.
Whenever CPL Dan Peters and his three person team hear of another No.5 Squadron Search and Rescue, they wonder if their teams SRA has saved lives.
The Air Forces No.5 Squadron Parachute drops SRAs to seafarers or downed Aircraft when the vessel is in danger of sinking and lacks a suitable life-raft.
Peter's and his team assemble the 10 seater life-rafts, each with a CO2-filled inflation cylinder and two attached supply containers.
Wrapping the hundreds of metres of rope that tether the containers is the most time consuming job, before a further two weeks of fiddly, exacting work before the final product is ready to be shipped back to No.5 Sqaudron.
Rope skills-splicing to folding and wrapping- are essential but ultimately people's lives depend on the cylinders opening and inflating in exactly the correct sequence. Other specialists help: suppliers, chippies, avionics, armourers, medical and paint shop personnel.
Each SRA starts out as a basic inflatable life raft unit supplied by RFD. After minor modifications for Orion/RNZAF specifications, an extensive checklist ensures all components are working.
The team start building the containers and their trigger mechanisms. The SRA unit consists of three containers ropped together by hundreds of meters of coiled bouyant rope. The large, central container holds the MS10 Life Raft and the pressurised gas filled cylinder. After the main container deploys it's drogue parachute and hits the water vertically, an automatic firing mechanism starts inflating the life raft with the Co2. The gas pressure causes the containers expansion bolts to shear and allows the raft to inflate.
The two other containers, roped to the MS10 by the bouyant rope contain water, first aid, barley sugars, desalting kit, a Personal locator beacon and playing cards.
The cost of one of these SRA sets is approxamatley NZ$90,000, not including labour costs or the cost of deploying the Orion and it's crew.
The Airforce would be crazy to deploy one of these when not needed, so an alternative is the MADD pack( Minimum Aid Delivery Device). Put together at the Ohakea based Arial Delivery section, the MADD costs NZ$30.00 and can carry from 15 to 50lbs of equipment, eg, radio, water, medicine.The packs are filled by the No.5 Squadron personnel depending on the needs of the search and rescue.
Often several MADD packs are dropped. For example, when a worker mangled his hand in a recent fish factory ship accident, the MADDs contained an oxygen tank and other life saving medical supplies.
Each SRA can only be used once, then has to be discarded. No.5 Squadron retains up to 10 SRAs, ready for rescue in the South Pacific patch. Each has a shelf life of 12months and then must be repacked and checked at the life raft bay before being returned to storage.https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/and-you-thought-your-raft-was-expensive-2675.html
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ouch, not good to now be in the life-raft
at least 1 of the 7 MADD packs was retrieved
hopefully the ship will be there soon
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BIG SPLASH!
The footage from Instagram shows the American syndicate’s smaller AM38 test boat flying nose first into the water, with the boat quickly capsizing.
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It's understood it was late last year in the earlier stages of training, but the American Magic crew are yet to reveal exactly when or where the incident happened.
It's also believed former Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker was at the helm at the time.
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Looks to be floating fine in those photos.
The dive boat that had 13 people on and was in danger of sinking is a different boat to the tug in the photos. Lion Foundation Rescue was putting out a fire on the un-manned tug, when it was diverted to the dive boat...
yes, burning tug and sinking dive boat 2 different stories on different sides of the bridge
couldn't think of a kauri point on waiheke...
or how a slow tug without a dive platform would make a good dive boat...
sorry can't correct topic title
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cook strait in a tinnie?
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A teenager had to be rescued by Coastguard after trying to cross the notorious Cook Strait last night in a dinghy.
Police say the 18-year-old set off from Kenepuru Sound about 10pm last night and went through the Pelorous Sounds in a motored dinghy before crossing the Cook Strait.
About 9am today the teen contacted the Harbour Master alerting that he had broken down off the Mana Coast, but was unsure of his location.
Police were able to geo-locate him from his cell phone and found that he was about 12km west of Mana Island. A Westpac helicopter attended and directed Police to his location.
"If it wasn't for him ringing and us being able to locate him from his phone data it could have been a very different outcome," Houston said.
"The battery on his cell phone was becoming flat. If we didn't have the mobile locate we would have had a massive search. The mobile locate, literally saved his life."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12335636
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mana+island+wellington&atb=v177-1&ia=web&iaxm=about