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    Bed It Tape

    in TechTalk

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    Bed-it is one product that lives up to the hype.  
    The only thing you have to be careful about is using solvents around it...if you have penchant for walking round your deck with a turps laden rag cleaning this 'n that, just be careful around fittings that have Bed-it.

    First Time Boat Buyer Advice

    in MarineTalk

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    9 hours ago, aardvarkash10 said:

    tauranga harbour is pretty shallow everywhere.  Consider actual draft.  A bilge keeler would suit there really well.  Jon has said it first - survey. you will need one for insurance anyway, and you will need insurance for a marina berth or a mooring.

    For a cheap as chips option, Raven 26.  Lots of other choices though.

    100% Raven 26.  Cheap, Safe, good headroom, an ideal learner keeler

    Cancel your Great Barrier plans this Summer

    in MarineTalk

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    1 hour ago, harrytom said:

    Close the Mercs too. Bugger it, just close the gulf and ban tidal currents/easterly winds. If they did something 5 yrs ago might of helped rather than sit on ones hands.

    In the article they more or less acknowledge it was the big ships that caused the issue, yet they want to penalise boaties and yachites when the horse has clearly bolted.

    And you are right Harry, and in fact, they could close the Hauraki Gulf for a decade and the natural currents and wind changes would still embed the weed.  It is a waste of time trying to fight it - I know what I am saying has been said before, but you just shake your head at some of the idiots out there that call for this banning thing.

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    Okahu Hard Stand meeting

    in MarineTalk

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    I've never used Okahu Bay Hardstand....but living in Auckland most of my life,one of the highlights of driving or walking the Tamaki Drive was always going past and seeing the yachts in their cradles....it just adds something to that area

    Parnell Poo Pipe

    in MarineTalk

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    19 hours ago, K4309 said:

    It is not Parnell's poo. It is from West Auckland and the Central city. C'mon with the basic details guys.

     

    As a former Bogan,  I doth protest!  Surely it makes for more fun to examine what species of skunks PoshParnell crowd have been eating as delicacies lately?!

    Parnell Poo Pipe

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    I work down near Quay St a few times. per week and get a good waft of the Parnell Poo Pipe throughout the day. The smell is shocking.  What the hell have the rich pr#cks in Parnell been eating lately? Whatever it is, it is enough to bring tears to one's eye's let me tell yuh!

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    The outlook for spring

    in MarineTalk

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    This summer will be fantastic, with following Sou winds when going north, that will turn on key to WNW when going south.....and it will do this as I sold my other boat that I was campaigning for another that needs fixing.....  

    "Topsides" - NZ v Rest of the World

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Lazy Sunday arvo, and just thought I'd raise a topic that has intrigued me for years.
    I grew up in a non-yachting family, never belonged to a yacht club, not part of the boat building or design scene in NZ any way....I learnt nautical terms from overseas books, American and British, some European, and in all the overseas literature 'topsides' are the sides of the boat above the water line, ie the sides of the hull above the water.

    In NZ I have come to realise when sailors and boatbuilders talk about 'topsides' they are talking about the deck and or cabin.

    This has lead to some amusing moments in the past when I have been talking to kiwi sailors before we finally figure out we are talking about two different areas of a boat.
     

     

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