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^ have to add it was great going up there on the heels of 4 mulleties they started earlier and we could see them in the distance being blown over in their over-canvased way finally caught them as they tacked up the last few, very shallow, turns of the river and there simply wasn't enough channel for all of us...

great to see you there! sorry we didn't have more time to talk, was too busy drinking + pool playing by then an epic road trip for you getting there via car + boat from huntly? i think we all did a bit of bottom hugging that day

NSW legal has slowly been morphing into USA where slippery lawyers and loads of money buy the guilty freedom

i still think we should organize a test day with coastguard and hit our DISTRESS buttons to see what happens... in theory all the DSC vhf in range will log the distress calls and positions and alert the user that distress calls have been logged the problem would be that people who have no idea of our "test" would have flashing icons on their radios until they reset them ie probably never! what a waste of technology

i'm guessing that's a satellite with 3 receive bars that blinks when you turn on and after 15min? of blinking, sounds an alarm to let you know that it hasn't received an nmea lat/long input from your gps so in an emergency can't transmit your position at least that's what it would be on my JRC vhf i was able to take nmea lat/long info off the nmea leads on the power cable of my old garmin and feed it into the vhf nmea input leads on the vhf cable then the the gps sat. icon stopped flashing and the 3 bars started scrolling and the lat/long info scrolled across the bot

very cool the standing wild thing at 1.19

when i returned to nz last year my wife and i brought our cars with us free of import taxes i seem to remember we could also have brought a motorcycle, aircraft or small ship if we had been away for 21months, owned it for a year? promised not to sell it for 2 years and if the small ship had no engine and was less than 2.5m wide... at the time i could have brought my weta except it was too widewhen assembled edit - here's the doc small ship means a ship that is either of the following: (a) a sailing vessel that — (i) in the sailing condition does not exceed 2.5 m