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Club Marine is not an insurer in its own right - it part of the global Insurance giant Allianz. Given Allianz’s strategy over the last few years to cut unprofitable business lines in NZ I suspect this is a result of rising costs of marine repair services in NZ - which is usually the reason for underwriters exiting a market ie declining profitably (or even loss making) with no sign of a reversal of that trend.

Thanks. I’ll take a closer look when the boat arrives and I’ve obviously got some time to sort heating before the winter chills kick in. My last heating system was airtropic and it just about worked ok but not suitable for new boat. An extra complication (or maybe a solution?) the new boat has air conditioning running to all 3 cabins so it already has ducting. I wonder if I can somehow reuse that for a heating system...?

Ok good info thanks.

Cool. Or rather hot. Do your 3 matrixes (matrices sp?) each have their own fan blower? And individual thermostat? And does yours link to the engine(s) i.e. pre-heat the cold blocks before starting and take heat from the hot blocks when running engines as well as heating? And finally, who installed it? Cheers

Has anyone here installed (or got) a hydronic heating system onboard?

Cool thanks. Does she have a timetable she’s targeting?

Who's saying it's an either / or?

Actually it's surprisingly easy to get to the UK on commercial flights right now. One of my best friends did it last week - Singapore Air had flights every other day out of Auckland to Singapore and onto London. He sent me a video of the flight - here it is below. if it was other way around then a European government looking at NZ might be concerned how long the queue would be to get onto a flight here. But going the other way it's not an issue and unlikely to become one. My friend wasn't even stopped or questioned at Heathrow either at Immigration or Customs - just waved through a very quiet

I don't think it could. Under international law no country can prevent a legitimate passport-holding citizen from returning home - assuming that citizen can find a way to present themselves to their home country's border i.e. via land, sea or air. The only exceptions are for security threats e.g. known or suspected terrorists. Otherwise, a country would effectively be making it's citizens 'stateless' meaning they could not travel anywhere - not even back to their own home country. Which is illegal unless done for the security reason above - which is very rare.

It's a Discovery 55. Better than an Oyster IMO (the later ones at least). I think the difference between these guys and normal cruisers is the tragic death of their 14yr boy. This prospect would bring a chill to the spine of any sailing parent. So the family are obviously already emotionally traumatised and they are trying to avoid being financially traumatised as well- which as we all know would further emotionally affect them etc. So I do think there is an unusual (tragic) aspect to their case which few general policies would cater for - hence a fresh review is warranted in th

Eh??? If they hold UK passports they can return to the UK anytime. They will have to do 2 weeks quarantine but there is nothing stopping a UK citizen returning the UK from anywhere in the world at any time. Same as NZ citizens coming home here. Or have I missed your point?

Clipper the simple answer is that you can buy the basic WN modem and run it from a 12v socket (or mains if you prefer) and you’re ready to go. It seems to achieve a slightly better signal than a mobile phone even from it’s inbuilt antenna. Maybe it’s got a small boost function inside? Either way that will more than suffice around the inner Gulf. If you want to boost it (cheaply) you can buy 2x external antennas from Jaycar for about $50 each and connect then to the back of the modem (1 is upload and 1 is download). And this will boost a weak signal by 1-2 bars. And if you want t

Love the vivid white antifoul! How did it go? I’m going to try that on my new toy although I suspect I might end up going back to black later...

It depends on the source of capital and the alternatives uses you’re comparing it against. If you’re comparing it against investing $1m in new plant (also a depreciating asset) in a growing business that will obviously generate more positive economic activity for the NZ economy than the boat. But if you’re comparing it against sitting as dormant equity that could be released at relatively low cost (eg $30,000 pa) to generate new economic activity (eg $50,000 pa) then you’ve got a small net gain.

If you knew what I did for a living you would realise you are way off the mark with pretending to understand how I think and believing it’s “classic NZ business”. 😊 Meanwhile, back in the real world, the most likely source of $1m spent on a toy like a boat would be from property equity release or other low cost borrowing rather than working capital from a business struggling to scale. If you seriously think that the only thing that stops a business successfully scaling is that the owner makes a bad decision to take excess drawings to buy a boat.... then you probably don’t understand how b

It would net improve the economy because a NZ buyer would transfer $1m from their NZ bank account into a floating asset that requires ongoing spending and maintenance - even at just 5% of value that would equates to $50k pa average service fees pumped into the NZ economy forever. Unlike the $50k threshold for superyachts which would be a one-off spend this year only. Clearly Covid has not changed any of NZ’s thinking horizons - they are as short-term as ever.

Arrived about an hour ago (no lap of honour)!

He’s a few mins off Matiatia - I wonder if he’ll do a victory lap of Waiheke...

Did so a couple of weeks ago

AIS tracker shows him further ahead than the website tracker.... he's now well into the gulf and 20nm-ish to run doing 4-5kts so hopefully he'll be in this afternoon and well before dark!

Unless he decides to slow down / hove to somewhere in the gulf, get some kip and then arrive fresh tomorrow morning?

At 1000hrs looks like he's got about 35nm to run but with persistent SW10-15 he's going to be sailing much further probably closer to 50nm at say av. speed 5kts so I'd say he's got anywhere between 10-12hrs to go. So almost certainly today (before midnight) but he might struggle to arrive in daylight?

He’s got a solution for everything: 37º 15.714s 177º 15.924e Of tanks and dolphins Tue Oct 06 2020 The wind continues to blow exactly from my waypoint up ahead.Its uncanny how little it varies in direction and yet it’s up and down like a yo yo. Sometimes I am sailing, sometimes motoring, mostly both together as the sea is steep and lumpy making progress slow. Dolphins have been playing around the boat all morning. The bow wave is pretty disappointing for them when just motoring but when I unfurl the genoa and we go surging off on a tangent they ge

The border is not shut to AC syndicates and film crews as well.

I agree I would have preferred to stick with a local broker and / or insurer but when I presented my non-standard scenario to them it was clearly going to be a challenge and take a long time. Whereas Pantaenius gave me an immediate "Yes we can do that". So I had no option really. And so if Traction is running out of options with his 40yr old boat on a swinging mooring then it might be worth asking if they can help?