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wonder if the engine was running? or an elec. fire due to poor eng. room wiring? only 4 hrs in life raft and the freighter that uplifted them going to where they were how lucky http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11470378

my limited understanding is that the 747 was a racer - so may be over-canvased, under-comforted for a solo beginner cruiser but the variant was always designed as a cruiser - emphasis on larger cabin and smaller-safer rig but as always when buying old things you want the 1 in the best condition for the money not a dog of the right type

as spin poles are too long to ship easily and vary so much in length you usually buy just the ends then rivet them to a locally sourced extrusion harken etc sell them new but if you search long enough you'll find them cheaper used http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/parts-accessories/blocks-shackles-deck-hardware/auction-897010544.htm http://www.wlg.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/parts-accessories/other/auction-885496176.htm

How sensible to create 8 useable channels out of these 4 duplex channels intended for téléphone patching which no-one uses these days. And what an utterly daft numbering system to come up with for the result! I'd love to hear the civil servant who dreamt that up explain why four-digit codes for so few channels were a smart idea. Quite agree. Think of all the radios with two 7-seg displays for the channel number. Read more at http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?336349-Marine-Radio-Frequencies-will-change-Jan-2017/page3#bkOfmVel412wbAyT.99 so basically as just an ak sailor i'll st

this ozzie site seems to explain those high vhf channel #'s a little better Using 78 as an example - it has 2 frequencies: 156.925 MHz (ship transmit) and 161.525 MHz (Coast Station transmit). The ship transmit frequency becomes new channel 1078 (156.925 MHz), and the Coast transmit frequency (161.525 MHz) becomes new channel 2078. http://www.gmdss.com.au/new%20vhf%20channels.html so yes, at first blush it seems all current nz marine vhf radios will become somewhat crippled in certain areas around nz when the new system comes in as they won't be able to correctly establish the

would love to but first need to circumnavigate waiheke then get to barrier then ....

a good example of how having no lead keel increases the chance of having something to live on a couple of guys with buckets probably get that a fair bit higher

when the gloom lifted a little a speed boat going 20knots? was level with me, a 100mt away before he saw me he slowed a bit after that

no one there at 9.30am this morning fog was up at that time but it had been really thick out round rangitoto and was coming and going around north head was glad of the HUGE chartplotter when motoring back in at 3kn along the edge of rangi coming out of izzy the ferry horns were blasting about every minute? visibility down to about 25mt at times

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as it migrates to the antartic each summer some years ago australian's were worried that japanese whales would scientifically cull it http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10475943 i don't think the japanese ever intended to but that didn't stop the purple prose New Zealand's new Conservation Minister has sent out a strongly worded message to Japan as the country prepares to hunt what is believed to be the world's rarest whale.

if the below link works you'll see the north inshore? 160km? current seems to run up the coast (which is why surfing in dunedin is so cold) before the offshore current of the anticlockwise south pacific gyre? which meanders south http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=significant_wave_height/orthographic=-186.01,-46.61,3000 to get the current display instead of the wind display click the "earth" button bottom left and change the "mode" from "air" to "ocean" Sailing off New Zealand, Groupama 3 capsized following the breakage of her

and a tiny draft for the shallow river

yeah you guys who complain about a monkey on your back

on most points of sail rotating masts look after themselves but if the win is light or the traveller way out you often won't get the best mast angle only then might you want a little more rotation if you don't have the wishbone and tackle already it's pretty hard to justify the cost and hassle of using the gear like blowing all the gains by forgetting to release it all before a tack

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not sure this guy rimmas has ever been able to sail to windward...

The first trip aboard a new boat turned to disaster for a couple who were plucked from the vessel by Coastguard in 40 knot winds and a 3m swell off Whangarei Heads. Rescuers made a split-second decision to offload the pair from their 7m wooden launch, because towing it would have endangered their lives and those of the man and woman. The unnamed launch was last seen drifting out to sea, and now poses a shipping hazard off Northland's coast. The Northland Regional Council has issued navigational warnings to vessels in the area. The pair had set out from Onerahi b

DSC stands for digital selective calling allowing you to call specific radios on freq. not prearranged the manual also suggests you can request the lat/long of a vessel if you know their mmsi and their vhf is gps connected DSC is a paging system that uses data signals to automate the transmission and reception of calls on VHF marine radio channel 70. A DSC message is a brief burst of digitised information transmitted from one station to alert another station or stations. The DSC message automatically indicates the identity of the calling station and the priority/purpos

ughmm ug hmm embarrassed cough while connecting 12vdc today. realised that the 2 wires going in to + and earth of the terminal block were not the wires needed to power it up but + and - so moved the earth wire to the - terminal and now the power switch makes leds glow, mic switch clicks a relay etc so progress but more to do much more

in theory i sail with the gps + vhf on, connected, and the gps on a triple channel watch of - 16 (emergency) - 9 (does this even mean anything in nz? presumably is an emergency channel in other countries so my radio includes it in the watch) - 80 (i choose the 3rd channel, and that's generally waitemata harbour coastguard) but even if triple watch wasn't on, but maybe chan 82 (haruaki gulf coastguard) if anyone else, with a GPS connected DSC VHF, (within the expanded range that a digital vhf burst can cover), pressed their distress button my vhf would switch to 16?, al

if i remember my radio theory correctly something about a big fat wad of RF energy having nowhere to dissipate, so it can burn up? in the tuner Never use the system without reliable ground connection. Never transmit or tune without an antenna. It will damage your tuner High voltage! Do not touch the antenna when it’s transmitting or tuning http://www.onz.be/antennes/cg3000N.pdf

not so old it has valves what sort of codan?

the ozzies covered up for an off the rails neurosurgeon for a while but when he was responsible for a 2nd dead hooker they finally biffed him Dr Suresh Nair was allowed to continue working as a neurosurgeon at the Nepean Private Hospital despite the NSW Medical Council being aware of his addiction to cocaine since 2004 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736241/Cocaine-sex-addicted-surgeon-deported-Malaysia.html the fact that this auckland Dr was DIY within weeks seems telling