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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

quite a transformation looks good

ouch

^ thanks for the heads up Dambo and thanks Bill the sail above lives to sail another(last?) season

after all that work + cost! feel for ya....

reducing sail area the old school way probably take me 15? hours to lower the headboard 30cm on this $50 sail by cutting it down, moving the head panels and hand-sewing them back on trick for young players, the dark strips of old double sided tape shouldn't be seen, as the reinforcement panels should be on the other side of the sail............next time

learned something new yesterday came back into okahu bay about 2pm 10 knot? northerly so came in the west entrance and along the marina breakwater so could round up to the mooring, about 100mt off the akarana's concrete ramp need a bit of turning space with vindil's fullish keel so was about 50mt off the concrete ramp just about to start the turn and noticed the boat had stopped engine was going........ prop was going round........... water was going past the hull but boat didn't seem to be moving in relation to the land and though tiller was working and moving the p

next on one the back story on this pair later edit not much about the yacht theft but interesting nevertheless http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/72113833/alleged-sexual-assault-victims-name-suppression-lifted for years they stayed 1 step ahead of the slow moving law until they burned a business man who put up $50,000 to see them run down

a trike designed to handle!

a good weekend for stretching abilities on the storfidra 25 yesterday on a gentle run to rocky bay got to try poling out both genoas off the forestay this morning on the chicken run back got my first dolphin sighting, learned more about the wind vane and had some "fun" going through the reef at bean rock and picking up the mooring at okahu bay