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21 minutes ago, Steve Pope said:
Ryco NZ
Yeah but when you put in the OEM numbers for some filters they give you a match that, when you go check the specs on, have different threads than the OEM.
Highly recommend you stay away from that lot. I've spent hours looking at this and happy to trust wix with my engines.
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Still waiting for a quote from the local yanmar agent on some little stuff, thought I would get a price as freight kills a few of the smaller items. They haven't got back to me after 3 maybe 4 weeks. They have been pretty useless any time I have dealt with them so not surprised.
Seals O-rings and bearings I will just source from seaco, generally about 80% cheaper.
Waterpump was $537 to my door, about a week. was quoted over $900 + gst from memory and not in stock locally.
Exhaust elbow (stainless steel) $317 including gasket to my door, didn't even bother getting a quote and not worth building your own for that sort of money. https://hdimarine.net/product-category/yanmar/
Ordered a prop Tuesday last week from Denmark, it got to Auckland on Thursday this week, when I bought my last one none of the NZ suppliers / agents came in under price nor could deliver less than 2 weeks, the local agent as above was "place an order I can't tell you when but its usually within 3 months" Didn't bother asking anyone this time. I've got a near new 16x11 sail drive prop if anyone's interested.
I support my local chandlers a bit, they are pretty reasonable and have been quite helpful.
Engine stuff, if your buying from an agent you are probably getting ripped off to the extent that it is worth paying a lot for offshore freight and duties.
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Put the part numbers into Google, its a pretty good place to start.
Search for a parts manual first if you haven't got one.
Mines a 3ym30E, I can help with numbers for that if you want.
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Have bought impellors through marinedeals, cheapest.
Wix equivalent filters from partzonline, way cheaper than oem
Water pump and exhaust elbow offshore, 1/3 price of local I think. can give you details if you need.
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Tried it when getting into kitesurfing, the sand, grass, concrete is a lot harder than water. Sold the board and kept kitesurfing for may years.
I recommend blokart or buggy for solid ground. Still sh*t loads of fun but doesn't hurt as much.
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1 hour ago, marinheiro said:
It will be interesting to hear what he has to say
Sort of thing that should be coming from YNZ for everyone don't you think?
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How you Aucklanders going keeping your boats at a lightly fouled level?
Now that your all looking pretty dirty:
approx 5000 boats, 2hrs travel lift each, 11 haulout / hardstands
Thats only 113 days work for each yard at 4 / day.
Better start applying for your resource consents now, maybe at least approach council for comment?
My boats stuck in the yard now, sort of glad I got a spot actually, suspect there is going to be a bit of a rush coming up.
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5 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:
have some fun
That's pretty much the reason I don't do windward leeward.
My crew and I really enjoyed the Island racing last year, would not be interested in doing a W/L
Why come to the Bay and then do a W/L, you can do that anywhere. Those Islands were made for sailing around.
I actually found the races a little short but its really hard to know what wind your going to get during the day up there at that time of year, better to finish than not.
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17 hours ago, Priscilla II said:
Always wondered where Nick got the inspiration for his AC75 flat shoed keelson from.
When they did the 3D model they need a base support for initial 3D printed trial, someone forgot to tell them to cut it off.
By the time they trailed it the engineer responsible thought best to shut up and leave it there, hoping that no one would notice.
The rest is history.
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1 hour ago, Deep Purple said:
Handicapper hates us
Slow down a bit
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https://www.navionics.com/usa/charts/features/community-edits
There's a bit of info here
Personally I find them really annoying and unreliable, little dots all over the place. Find a point of interest and there might be 5 separate dots, some a hundred meters out of position all saying the same thing. Just look at the rock talked about above.
I like the sonar stuff, but that's done by computers so a bit more reliable.
You can click on them to get more info, you can turn them off too.
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NZ passing GB at the finish line, got it right this time
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I zoomed in for the photo, what your saying is right but that's the point, the chart is not accurate at that location.
First time I've seen it though, usually spot on every where else I've been.
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Here's us stopped in a nice little bay not far from Cape Brett. had a swim and lunch then noticed this.
Up to date chart, 2019 I think, on Garmin Plotter, not sure which chart set and have sold it since then. The Yellow is the land supposedly.
Was using Pickmeres at the time and exploring a bit. GPS chart probably 50m off.
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2 hours ago, Dtwo said:
I would cheerfully stand up in a court to defend my decision.
This is why I made it clear in my submission that stopping a yacht in the open is inherently hazardous to the boat and the personal on board.
The Minister has been told and I would happily explain to a court why it was safer to keep going.
Love to see the doc ranger call me to stop, I will explain to them that I will continue to a sheltered spot and they can have a chat with me then.
Its not like pushing the pause button on a video game, there's no reset button either.
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I've got the Simrad go9, had the 7 before that, basically same unit as yours. Am very impressed with the navionics chart on that plotter.
I tried the simrad chart app online, which is based on cmap, it was terrible in comparison, comparing the two online offerings I think Navionics have the edge.
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57 minutes ago, CarpeDiem said:
In summary, the BOIMMS rules do not legally infringe on your freedom of movement within NZ.
So they do infringe, but not legally?
13 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:Given all of our laws go through three parliamentary readings and numerous amounts of scrutiny before being given Royal assent, they are the very definition of free and democratic.
That's not how this rule will be implemented, there is no Act of Parliament created, just a rule gazetted by the Minister.
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14 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
That is normal. Get two ss rings too big to pass through the cringle. Sew them to either end of a piece of webbing that passes through tge cringle.
One ring goes over the bulls horn, the other jams in the cringle.
This is the way to go but instead of sewing a webbing between the rings use a length of single braid dyneema and just lash them, you can adjust the length and fit it in place. Much easier than dropping slugs out and keeps main tidy.
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So the proposed legislation would be in breach of our human rights?
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7 hours ago, DoT said:
But it's not a human right
Please explain
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7 hours ago, Dtwo said:
How else are you going to hoist and retrieve without running backwards and forwards?
From the cockpit works for me, you can do the same with a sock. You need to go forward to use the sock but you can still drop to the cockpit if necessary, much safer.
Set everything up then come back and hoist, you can adjust sheets if necessary too.
If you drop into cockpit you don't have to go forward at all until its safe to do so. Done it many times over 25 up to 35, never a problem. Its the hoist that's the bit that goes wrong.
I used to drop forward if it was really light, halyard over the back was enough to control it.
Andy Evans book is worth a read http://sfbaysss.org/resource/doc/SinglehandedTipsThirdEdition2.pdf
If you are struggling to control a spinnaker on the drop your wind angle is wrong, it should collapse behind the main and stay there. Letter box to be sure but you don't need to.
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In years gone by politicians, both local government and parliament, were usually well respected successful people from the business community. Nowadays we have professional politicians that have never run a business, nor often even worked for one, so out of touch with the realities for making it. They therefore see the world in a "how am I going to win the next election" perspective.
To make up for the complete lack of useful skills they employ bureaucrats in their droves, again not so much in the past as they weren't needed. but spreading geometrically now, these people soon realise they are onto a pretty good thing and focus on securing their position.
People used to be able to deal directly with bureaucrats and politicians and they helped you get things done, mostly they are behind closed doors now and risk averse. They want you to use consultants rather than deal directly with them, again a step removed from reality.
To get a real perspective in front of a politician is now almost impossible, if a silly idea comes up its pretty hard to put a stop to it. Politicians respond to media nowadays, not common sense.
Businesses need to convince you to give them dollars, politicians don't. There is a lot to be said for the power of market forces to drive decision making, as opposed to popularity ratings to chase votes, for good outcomes
If you want to get your way you need a spin-doctor, not an experienced subject matter expert.
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This was posted some time ago, the same discussion is repeating itself. Can't find it searching posts, a lot of the YNZ stuff seems to have disappeared. Its minutes from a club meeting if I recall correctly.
A big thanks to all those who responded to my last posting and especially to the Club Commodores who responded either to me or to the Waikawa Boating Club directly offering their support on the issue. It is now really obvious that this is a major issue and one the Board at Yachting NZ will do well to listen to.
Regarding the levy being paid multiple times by those who are a member of more than two clubs I would like to draw your attention to a motion that was passed at the Yachting NZ AGM back in 2017 moved and promoted by the Waikawa Boating Club:
The preamble was as follows: This motion is put forward to address Club members who belong to two or more affiliated clubs and currently included in the affiliation calculation. With the Club card membership information held by YNZ these members should be easily identifiable.
The motion was as follows: 3. Where on application from a member club, Yachting New Zealand will collect the affiliation levy once per individual belonging to two or more affiliated YNZ clubs.
While I stand to be corrected on this I don't believe that it has ever been given effect by either Clubs or Yachting NZ yet it would seem quite a simple matter to sort out.
Its a brave??? board that does not act on an Annual General Meeting Motion duly passed by the membership!
I sent it to one of my clubs, they decided to circumvent the process to cut down on work for YNZ, they did not collect the fee.
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So Uncle Dave told us the measure of his success as CEO of YNZ was "number of gold medals at the Olympics", what now Dave?
Safety Regs review was a disaster, Racing Rules came out late, multiple clubs questioning why they affiliate....
Maybe you should start working on pleasing the other 99.999% of yachties you are meant to be serving, if you don't want to do that maybe the board could step in and find someone who will.
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Online shopping for Yanmar stuff
in TechTalk
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https://j109.org/docs/Yanmar-3GM30-parts-catalog.pdf
See if this helps, says its for your model. Fig 35 Cooler. Gives the individual part numbers.