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from cornwall park it looked like a medium? sized cruise ship off waiheke today usually they shoot straight up rangitoto channel and never go near motuihe channel anyone know if it was anchored and motoring passengers to the buses and vineyards etc?

perhaps some of the triple postings we've been seeing

Two people had to be rescued from their yacht in the early hours of yesterday - the second time the pair needed help this week. A Coastguard spokesman said they received a distress call about 12.40am from the same vessel it had received two mayday calls from about 8pm on Sunday. There had been an issue with anchoring the vessel that night and a search and rescue mission, involving a P3 Orion aircraft from Auckland, was launched. The H28 blue yacht was later found in Ōmāio Bay after a member of the public spotted it and called a local radio station, which had been running a news report about

this is the feedback page for rudolfshack maybe the 'f' or 'space' was the issue? https://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=2328299 he hasn't done tooooo bad 87 positive feedbacks. 86 are from individual members, and count towards the final rating 2 neutral feedbacks. 4 negative feedbacks. 4 are from individual members, and count towards the final rating. a better proof of a pattern of deception would be if he has alternate names he cycles through on tm if someone has saved a tm pic with the sellers name on it we can try to see link this seller to oth

2500km away some carry the australian political system seems completely out of its depth in dealing with it hopefully that'll start to change this year

130kph gusts from sunday afternoon https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12298006 which will upset serena playing at the asb classic in auckland next week she hasn't been since 2017 when she came 2nd and blamed auckland's gusty winds https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sports/2017/01/04/dover-native-brengle-ousts-serena-williams-asb-classic/96146968/ at least it hasn't rained this year sometimes campers get flooded out over new year

everyone's getting the warning https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/weather-fierce-winds-to-slam-new-zealand-kiwis-should-watch-warnings.html

anyone know any other names that jason? may use on tm?

is this jason of mangawai who goes by "rudolfshack" on tm? you can read through the auction feedback here https://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=2328299

news story said he hadn't worked? on a fishing boat for 17 years

looks they pitched too high stalled the foils lost lift, lost headway, got blown over

ok it's a parasailor The Parasailor and Parasail are patented and trademarked variants of a spinnaker sail for yachts. They were designed especially for cruising couples and short-handed crews, are easy to handle and well tempered.[1] These sails make it possible to use one sail as spinnaker and gennaker while providing improved performance. It can be used between 70 and 180 degrees to the wind. Relieving the pressure on the bow and the stabilising effect of the Parasailor and Parasail improve the effect of the rudder and decrease the rudderthrows needed.[2] The Parasailor has a double-l

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/multihull/auction-2428663941.htm?rsqid=9918a48886dd4d5a8235c56774c42fe0-001

on the other side of the bridge but you could use NM018 Capricorn if nothing better shows up http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/17313-westhavens-new-swing-moorings/

from that littleneck page There is an on-going traditional customary and recreational harvest throughout New Zealand. In the past twenty years there has been a growing commercial harvest of littleneck clams, the main sites being located on Snake Bank in the Whangarei Harbour, etc etc Snake Bank is not the only cockle bed in Whangarei Harbour, but it is the only bed open for commercial fishing. The others are on the mainland, notably Marsden Bay, and other sandbanks, pic of snake bank https://photosnz.co.nz/shop/snake-bank-shellfish-beds/ edit Okoromai Bay in Shakespear

"clams" seems to mean almost any shellfish to most americans in much the same way "shrimp" seems to = shrimp, prawn, scampy, crayfish, lobster i guess you mean the white cockles? sometimes seen in red mesh bags next to the mussels at countdown etc mussels + oysters are farmed, so are available year-round but pipis, tuatua, cockles, bluff oysters, scallops, paua, geoducks? don't seem to be farmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_in_New_Zealand edit these cockles = little neck clams, look like the ones have seen at supermarkets http://nzclams.com/ ha

the LNG tankers that supply gas to japan from the timor gap? and kamchatka? have HUGE well insulated, spherical pressure tanks on them to keep the natural gas low volume liquid but there is still a "boil-off" which is captured and runs the ships engines presumably a superyacht as big as this hydrogen beastie will still have a daily liquid hydrogen boil-off AND won't actually spend a lot of time at sea maybe it could run the fuel cells and provide power back into the grid?

respect!

think big turn taranaki into a natural gas - hydrogen conversion plant source product can also be methane burps + farts from cows! - but how to capture it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production what could possibly go wrong The core Think Big projects included the construction of the Mobil synthetic-petrol plant at Motunui, the complementary expansion of the oil refinery at Marsden Point near Whangarei, and the building of a stand-alone plant at Waitara to produce methanol for export. Motunui converted natural gas from the off-shore Maui field to methanol, which i

doesn't sound very practical Aqua's technology system will rely on two 28-ton vacuum isolated tanks, which are to be stored at temperatures as low as -253 C. The liquified hydrogen is converted into electrical energy by proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. a lot bull$hit when they say a ship is "launched" but actually mean "a proposal has been released"

https://video.news24.com/show/169204

now THAT was a gust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLQpQ8ZbY0

trying again "loads on these multis are immense", wider trimarans generally have an even greater struggle to de-power invisible gusts than their narrower sisters, catamarans, who lift a hull earlier, depowering the rig not really related but beau geste's mod70 twin, was here doing very well holding the loads, at least up until the weight of the boat came to bear on 1 sidestay only this expensive capsize of a brand new boat almost, some would say DID, kill the mod 70 class seem to remember it was something to do with being unable to release an overloaded traveller past a certain

"loads on these multis are immense" wider tris generally have an even greater struggle to manage invisible gusts than their skinnier brethren - cats not really related but beau geste's mod70 twin was here very well rigged up to a point.... almost, some would say, DID, kill the class something to do with being unable to blow an overloaded traveller? https://youtu.be/mf8Clcngfvk?t=22

well spotted, corrected