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El Toro

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  1. El Toro

    She's Back...

    Bullet my arse... its hurts its face on a nail attacking a fender or something similar
  2. El Toro

    She's Back...

    Well the owner was adamant. There is now more than one isnt there? The bag was shredded
  3. We headed to sea for the first 2.5 weeks for the lockdown and stayed at either end of Onetangi for the whole time. I spent several weeks prepping the boat just in case and took the view they had not said no to boating. The boat is designed for live aboard and had sailed here from France. Ironically, our sewage system at home failed on last day home and we had no wastewater. There were about a dozen boats to start, some headed to Barrier, others melted away as food and water ran out over the 20 days we were out The first 10 days were fine, you could walk on Onetangi beach and the loca
  4. El Toro

    She's Back...

    She destroyed a boat in a bag setup in Orakei last week for a launch. Boat owner was gutted
  5. 9 years ago, ahhh fark it, I still had kids... someone slow this bus down I want to get off. Id go for the one the others got done... stops an arms race and the design was solid and is proven. Manson Marine built them to Elliot spec.. Mike Rees cast the bulbs. I did Pork Chop as same time but was a different gig, had to move bulkheads etc..Lloyd Stevenson did the work and I couldnt have been happier with the work
  6. Cut the arse out of a bucket
  7. Always had a soft spot for this tug, shame to see
  8. El Toro

    Clear Perspex

    Modern Plastics, the fulla is awesome Was in town but out south I think
  9. El Toro

    Whoops!

    They cut it to show 20 knots good, 24 knots bad.....
  10. I always thought you just drank bubbles.....
  11. Gday team talk to Marine Electrics... they have or know a water maker fulla. Or take my other advice, rip it out and burn it dead.
  12. I saw no recycling whatsoever...only a sign about dumping where the recycling bins were and a pile of rubbish There was noone there when we went in.
  13. I wish drivers would care about the gear they were driving......the longer it lasts, the more I can pay them.....
  14. Hi sorry for that, not sure what happened but there is the pic, now sideways....
  15. Feel free to ring this servant of the community... We turned up and went and bought a bag, put out black bag in it and added to the pile. There was this big flash sign and then a huge pile of rubbish dumped where the recycling bins were. I had to laugh at the $400 fine if you dump rubbish sign where the bins used to be. I sat there and ate my burger whilst the pile got bigger and bigger, half the folk coming in were not boaties but locals, some by car and they were not happy Every local I spoke to was seething at the fact a pencil pushing idiot in a windowless room back in the city had
  16. I was about to say that engine is pretty damn new.... but 12 years, Jesus where did that time go??
  17. Try Akarana, I think they may have a few rotting somewhere
  18. We were one of those boats. We sailed no further in than we have in the last 20 years. We werent even hugging the wall at all as we were in a tacking duel with another boat. We tacked JUST inside Princess wharf where you enter the Viaduct after crossing from Stanely Point. A committee boat came near us and gave us a thumbs down but we couldnt hear what they were saying and only found out the next day we were under protest. Protest was withdrawn.
  19. El Toro

    Insurance

    Im with The Marina Shop in Opua, Ive had either no increase or a nominal increase since I bought my raft 5 years ago.
  20. OK thats good to know, it used to only be BP
  21. Pretty sure store has gone, the gas pumps def have... or are on Caltex card only or similar
  22. Agree on the costings, it will be way more than that. Other options are Manukau at around 6b Kaiaua at around 6b but another 6b in roading
  23. That report was stacked with NorthPort hacks, cronies and people who stand to make bucket loads of cash. It was never not going to recommend anything other than moving North. It is a complete waste of time and money when the result was a foregone conclusion. If it moves great, I can retire, but this decision is political and is devoid an any economic reasoning and commonsense. Im not quite sure how it all fits in with labours hatred of the holiday highway, as the two are barometrically opposed. This is politics at its absolute worst, actually the longer I take to type type, th
  24. Originally had a Jandal but it was cut off by a chansaw... we went form 2.1 to 2.5.
  25. This was Pork Chops move... diablo.pdf
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