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Boat name : Ponsonby Scow sail # : K 2075 design : Mummery 55 Designer : Mummery, Alan battling black panther

The U.S. Coast Guard scoured Bahamian waters for a disabled cargo ship with 33 crewmembers, including 28 Americans, that lost contact during Hurricane Joaquin, which was moving away from the sprawling archipelago today. The 224-metre ship named El Faro had taken on water and was listing at 15 degrees near Crooked Island, one of the islands most battered by the hurricane. The Coast Guard said it hadn't been able to re-establish communication with the vessel http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11523375

possibly this CLEAN BOATS – LIVING SEAS Protect our waters from harmful marine pests. A boatie’s guide to marine biosecurity. http://www.mpi.govt.nz/document-vault/3688

on the occasional visit to westhaven the big fans are very obvious but haven't seen any yet on regular visits to the floating ramp at okahu bay...

catch 22 the normal result of too many bureaucrats working independently to tell you what's best for you

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

as above in the motorcycle world you can get 850cc singles like the very rare DR 850 - 850cc/cyl right through to world's most popular bike the 50cc super cub that's single cylinder petrol motorcycle engines having a cylinder size range of 50cc - 850cc seventeen times! obviously there is no agreement on how big a cylinder should be why? because horsepower is only 1 of many variables the designers are looking for and hardly the most important (in the car world apparently the swiss once claimed the 3 cyl 1000cc petrol engine was the best for fuel economy........ bu

kill someone - get sent to jail for 15 years kill a hundred - get sent to psychiatric centre for 7 years kill a thousand - get invited to geneva for peace conference

creepy going to dream of being trussed up by flying spiders

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

if hobie aren't there presumably they chose not to attend

7mm is like a gazillion times what you need man heaps: general expression to mean a lot, as in "miss you heaps", or try hard; "give it heaps"

am happily running opencpn on an old netbook running xp gps position data coming from a small garmin etrex on a usb cable bought a $20? usb DVTV dongle to experiment with AIS but got stalled by complications with driver installs this step-by-step pdf has got me going again http://www.marinetraffic.com/files/DVBT_SDR_vS.pdf

a trike designed to handle!

http://www.westhavenmarinebrokers.co.nz/companies/288/61/Mirage-30/

pity it's in nelson http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/trailersailer/auction-947825555.htm

hope he makes some kind of size-able donation to coastguard or someone else maybe sponsors a couple of kiwis who were have been raised in oz and abandoned by their "no-kiwi" social welfare

len will be first against the sea-wall come the next election .......... the bigger question is will len brown lite, (cough goff) be elected or balance the check-book brewer?

if the perdock case sets precedence the marker will be found guilty for something like failing to provide consent for an evidential? breath test http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/justice.asp

have it and it is an A77 plastimo complete but needs; new rudder, vane repair and alloy welding of the rocker casting the all important linkages are all there, will get some pics up soon you and/or your friend welcome to come round to study it if pics not enough the black plastic L linkage between the stainless 90degree arm (on the vane base) and the stainless finger? that works the trimtab (at head of servo paddle) is sold by mister.vee http://windvaneselfsteering.com/node/6 if you right click and save the lower pic of the assembly and then open it on your computer y

can't imagine it's very powerful but for nz$30... http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/parts-accessories/safety/auction-942323775.htm