Ex Machina

Ponder this angle . Imagine you join a “boating “ club not a “yacht” club but you have a cruising yacht . Imagine said club was affiliated with say Offshore power boating NZ . It would be a bit of a piss off if $30 bucks of your sub went towards a powerboating outfit to do whatever with it , you roll with it anyway because it’s the only boating club in your area with decent facilities . that’s what our launch owners and cruising boat owners , social , crew members plus juniors face with YNZ whether they like it or not .

Same here can’t access the rules , only getting overviews .

That’s kinda where our club sits . Only 3-4 boats ever enter YNZ sanctioned events yet we pay nearly 10k PA to them . I would happily join another club to retain eligibility to enter coastal etc and save our club major coin .

Vaguely remember a comm fishing boat that dragged anchor at maybe hen and chicks ? Maybe loss of life ? Teenager in the wheelhouse asleep who was assigned the anchor watch but wasn’t qualified ?

What tool did you use for scraping ? I have a moonscape of antifoul to sort out at some stage

It’s reassuring to see it has a masthead light

That’s on display ? Think it’s on loan to the developers to give a nautical theme to the place . I’m pretty sure it’s the one that needed lee cloths and buckets to keep the water out of the cockpit ….and then the rig folded

Surely not Rudolph shack !?

Isn’t the keel gone or is that another boat ? Cant keep up with all the old battle axes

Looks like a local liveaboard Townson 26 . In real world $ that tow probably cost more than the value of the boat ? A bit over the top really but a good outcome .

Probably not , though there are some James Bond villain type mansions tucked away in the BOI , possibly with sand shark aquariums 😂. Who knows , it may have been established quite awhile ago in a murky waveless corner of a harbour and has spread from there . Even Russell and Paihia/opua are murky as on a good day

I’m guessing Pacific Northwest off one of those crazy river mouth harbour entrances . Those are US coastguard boats and that launch is definately an American abdomination

I’m hoping the the “other half “ that have baches ? And houses in that area bring their weight to bear in a good way .

Might have to turn right at cape colville ?

Not a betting man but ….100% ?

Still plenty of coprous oxide in there . It’s the unpronounceables that have been banned from paints

I should’ve used purple font . Our modest club pays just shy of 10k PA in YNZ affiliation fees and only 3-4 race boat boat owners would be affected if we didn’t pay that . The youth sailing would lose whatever support is on call but even then they do superbly with minimal input from YNZ

There is an onshore aquaculture venture almost directly west of the wreck . The saltwater intakes would be fecked by bunker fuel not to mention the kingfish and pāua that live there . There’s also a recovering commercial scallop bed the length of bream bay that is one hell of a producer when it’s in good shape . Salty dog bait harvests a shed load pilchards at certain times of the year in bream bay , H and C area . So there is a bit for MPI to think about but it’s not threatening the national economy .

Well we already have YNZ . They could hire someone with clout and funnel some funds into that ? There’s a prominent QC that sails and the omakiwi infestation is outside his front door . Come to think of it the affected area is right outside some very influential characters front door , all who have boats with anchors . That area is basically a who’s who of NZ and offshore big business … Maybe the big people could could help out the little people ?

We need someone inside NIWA or NRC who’s an avid boatie

Cruise ship anchor ? Where they anchor in the roads off Tapeka is a great distribution point , the current fangs out of there . Plus cruise ship passages are measured in days not weeks so greater chance of the stuff being nice and fresh

22K !! 🤦‍♂️

Yeah the place is rooted as far as seafloor life goes .

Found in a lot more places now in BOI over the last week

Those board member names ring yachting bells , are they RAYC members ?