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can't help but think a few too many corners got cut somewhere along the line
pretty lucky for that guy to survive in just a life jacket, guess it was because they were within range of a well funded helo + SAR
doubt he'll be feeling too chipper about being the sole survivor
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A survivor has been rescued from the water after a ship with two New Zealanders and 41 others onboard went missing during a typhoon off the coast of Japan.
The ship, Gulf Livestock 1, carrying about 5867 cattle left Napier on August 14, was carrying 43 crew members.
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thanks guys!
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American Magic’s second generation America’s Cup boat is on its way to Auckland.
The 75-foot boat is being flown in a chartered cargo plane for its trip to New Zealand from the boatbuilding yard in Rhode Island on the east coast of the United States.
The boat will be the one American Magic use for the Prada Cup challenger series.
The boat’s swift arrival in Auckland again signals the precision of the syndicate that is backed by the powerful New York Yacht Club.
American Magic’s Kiwi helmsman Dean Barker has hinted at big changes on their new boat, saying: “It definitely looks different, there will be no mistaking which one is which.”
They were the first challengers to set up base in Auckland, having been sailing Defiant on the Waitemata Harbour and Hauraki Gulf regularly since July.
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hi all, looking for some old worn mooring chain in the auckland area, to act as a security device for some motorcycles that have to live outside
pm, if you need to get rid of some or swap for rum
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i wonder if it has anything to do with the crashed drug plane last month?
presumably the png authorities were working on intelligence supplied by the australian federal police
the cartels seem to have many buyers in oz and use png in the same way they use central america
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The Papua Defence Force’s Navy has intercepted what news media have described as a suspected Chinese pirate vessel and have detained eight crew members, one with gunshot wounds.
At present, all crew members are being interrogated by PNG Customs officials with assistance from the Australian Federal Police.
In 2017, the same vessel was intercepted in the Milne Bay waters, with cocaine also being seized from the vessel.
https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/26/drama-at-sea-png-navy-detains-8-alleged-pirates-1-wounded/
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He completed that voyage anyway, steering by the stars. And if it was possible to navigate without instruments by night, he reasoned, perhaps it was possible to do so by day.
“By the time I got back to shore two and a half weeks later, I had figured out that daytime steering was no problem at all,” he said. “We would use the wind as a reference; we would use the waves as a reference.”
doesn't sound very efficient during the day, but wasn't this pretty much how they believe oceania was navigated before 1500?
but with the advantage of good charts
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on that
The Sankei article also says the Chinese stated that Japan “is not entitled to demand” the fishing fleet cease its activities. If that part of the report is accurate, China is saying, “This is our territory…and from now we are going to prove it.”
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wiki currently say usa outspends china 3x
not sure how they know....
Rank Country Spending
(US$ bn)% of GDP World total 1,917 2.2 1 
United States of America
732.0 3.4 2 
People's Republic of China[a]
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starting to get interesting!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12351764
video of the big american foiler
beating the smaller kiwi boat
but not by much
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Expect big changes for American Magic’s second boat they hope will win back the America’s Cup for the New York Yacht Club.
The syndicate are fully operational in Auckland now and expected to ramp up testing and training on their original AC75 Defiant over the coming week.
Their second boat will be air-freighted to New Zealand and they hope to have it in the water by October.
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heard a bit of that too, nz's first chartered master mariner, also doctorate in some aspect of maritime law
link to radio story here
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11 hours ago, Steve Pope said:
unfortunately the pipeline North just isn't big enough to move all the extra capacity to Jaffa land. Huge dollars to upgrade said pipe.
are we talking the water pipe from the waikato here
or the power-lines from the south island?
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the predict wind tracker in 'map' mode seems to out by about 200mt north
to watch the horror, switch it to 'satellite', move the time slider at the bottom so the timer at the top say 18.36, zoom in to NW tip of waiheke, then press play
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/race/ssanz
and waka were cutting it fine at 8pm
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it does appear that part of the deal to get more waikato water for drinking, is that auckland start recycling some of its wastewater for drinking
but some "customary"? issues will have to be worked through first
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12345648
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apparently working on the stormwater outfall, the pumping station also under construction at pt.erin
video
https://youtu.be/WqTU4vKFPqQ?t=67
a problem many years old and taking many years to rectify with the central interceptor
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11784545
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all ok
on the 1 tack
could do most of the coastal
seriously though
good to see her not a tangled mess of spars and kindling
getting the sails down, with the luxury of time, seems excellent advice for any sinking/capsizing
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looks remarkably intact
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"We placed one of them effectively inside the main organisation literally just outside my office in with some guys - obviously all our guys we trust, but [who] knew what the game was.
"Then once when I was informed effectively out of Europe, the game was up at that stage."
Dalton would not divulge exactly who those alleged spies were and said they were not 100 per cent sure about what information those involved got.
"But what I do know is that I think the game was up quicker than they expected simply because information that I knew could only come from one source was fed back to me from Europe."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12344067
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something very odd here with contracts being terminated due to paid? leaking of information
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last time i saw her playing with a chew toy (blue)
it had been torn off the galvanised bolts on a westhaven dock
do the experts have any suggestions?
Wgtn's Sealion
in MarineTalk
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bought for $5
and intending to make its home a comune in nelson...
A conditional contract was signed, and the deal was done. The harbourmaster was in touch soon after, saying Myers wasn’t legally allowed to depart Wellington without their approval of seaworthiness.