[This Weekend's Achievements]

Refitted my previously defunct but recently refurbished Navman 3100 multi to AC. Happy to wave goodbye to the awful Northstar unit which I had reluctantly installed in it's place for the last couple of years, it was a shocking thing, even worse than the Navman which is saying something. So touch wood I'm now back to full strength with all instruments working as they should..... famous last words.... something will probly blow in the next 5 mins.

[Living aboard in Auckland]

Well considering NZ is one of the only countries where you can still buy a brand new 2 stroke o/b I think we have a while before we get our sh*t together regarding boatie effluent (pardon the pun)

[Living aboard in Auckland]

I keep an old ice-cream container in the galley for collecting all my organic waste and I just empty it over the side the next time I'm underway well out at sea. Bottles/cans go into a cycling box, which I empty ashore. And the remaining waste goes into the normal galley bin, which builds up pretty slowly given there is no food or bottles going into it. Seems to work well. And you can probably guess which bin fills up first.

[Living aboard in Auckland]

People who pay rent are paying the landlord's rates.

 

How is it bludging? Oh I don't know?????? I wonder who pays for the road maintenance and the rubbish collection, and cleaning the streets, and the parking spaces, and the parks and foreshore where you might park the dinghy, and administering the city, and the stormwater system, and the sewers????? Oh its probably the same people who pay for all the items that dumbarses are always saying the Government should pay for.

 

And yes half the people at Uni are bludgers who would rather do a degree in flaxweaving than do something useful. And yes I think it is sad that Paul Henry was pilloried and the same with Jeremy Clarkson in the UK.

 

If you want to live on board your yacht, then that is just fine by me, just don't come ashore to use any of the facilities.

 

You're confusing direct with indirect contributions. If you go ashore to catch a bus or rent a car you are immediately paying something into the local economy. If you buy things from the local shops your purchase contributes towrds the shop's costs some of which go towards rates and services. On your argument, BBW, anyone who visits without living ashore is a bludger. Maybe we should ban tourists and the spend they bring when they step ashore?

 

amadis - don't be put off by this response, he doesn't speak for all Aucklanders.