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I think he is referring to cruising permits and other fees - price is going up up up.

Speaking of the Barrier I just sailed there...via Youtube on my incredibly unpopular channel. (The real sail was over 2 years ago - I just found the footage while scrolling through my back up files this morning, so made a video) Apologies for Fred Drift. Looks like I will need breast augmentation, laser hair removal, wig, and transition drugs if I ever hope to fund my sailing trip to the Bahamas or anywhere else in the world beyond Cape Reinga the way it is going. BP is right.

Do you have / did you buy the Orca specific tablet they sell? The big selling point is 1200 nits, so sunlight readable on the most sunny day .....

Another view...

Container ship barely misses Norwegian man’s house after running aground. The bow of the 11,000-ton NCL Salten remained in the man’s backyard as authorities investigated the cause. By Vivian Ho - Washington Post A man in Norway woke to find a 443-foot shipping vessel towering over his home after it ran aground into his yard. Johan Helberg had slept through the initial impact of the NCL Salten as it sailed into his yard in Byneset, Norway, early Thursday morning, Helberg said in an interview with the Norwegian broadcaster NRK. But after waking to his neighbors ringing his do

I get it Aard, but there is little we do in modern civilization that does not induce toxicity into the environment marine or land (we are not going back to live in caves) - yet, it appears to be that the biggest polluters get away with it that do 99% of the damage, and recreational boaters who in comparison would release an infinitesimally small amount of toxicity have to follow the rules. Sorry - it's bullsh*t.

I am going to come off the long run here and bowl a couple fast paced bouncers aimed at the head of the tit-heads that have basically banned all the anti-foulings that used to work: If someone were to set up a black market business making proper fouling from yesteryear that works - I would buy it and the "oh but you are destroying the marine environment" crowd - can go f**k themselves. To use a Bernie Sanders type analogy adapted for the marine environment, one could argue (and be 100% f**cking correct) that "the Oligarchy of top 1% of polluters, all from the corporate and industrial se

So, you know when we had antifoul that really worked with the "good nasties" in it - was it really that damaging to the ocean when we consider how much damaging environmental waste water is released into the ocean by all the worlds cities, and industrial centres? The "damage" that proper antifouling did to the environment surely has to be infinitesimal small in comparison? Or am I just doing sort of Joe Rogan type "Bro Science" here - though I feel the comparison I make is probably valid.

Agree. Just had a look on the map - it's out in the wop wops

My understanding of all the Lithium style batteries, the Marine LiFePO4 are the least fire hazard of all, perhaps even less of a fire hazard than AGM or old style Lead Acid Golf Cart type. Don't hesitate to put me right though - what I know about electrical things is less than Donald Trump knows about how Tariffs work.

My enduring memories of the little I know about Poland....

It changed ownership a number of years ago now right?

You know what, I never considered fouling. But I now remember reading the odd post in this forum over the years moaning about the fouling issue in the Opua area.... thanks for the reminder!

Is dust from the boatyard a concern in that area?

In a hypothetical situation, which may or may not be part of your or my plans in the future - if you have decided that the Bay Of Islands is the area you wish to purchase / rent a mooring with view to it being your liveaboard base, which area would you choose? The obvious choices are Opua/Kawakawa, Opua Basin, other nearby Opua areas (English Bay?), Russell, Matauwhi Bay, somewhere in KeriKeri river or it's tributaries, Doves Bay etc... Cheers.