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    What would you do?

    in MarineTalk

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    I saw the 7Sharp piece.  To be fair, the Neville Nobody yapping about how everyone should have to have a licence to take a boat out on the water, did mention he was talking about motor boats.

    But, despite my disdain for some stinkpotter "captains" I feel licensing is a huge mistake, a bureaucratic nightmare, and will eventually sliver its way to the sailing community too.... and, it is just the filthy few of the stinkpot crowd that give them a bad name.  And to be fair, some sailors are knobheads too, me included - ive done some dumb things on the water, and later reminisced and gave myself an uppercut.

     

    Gulf Harbour Ferry service no more?

    in MarineTalk

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    Got the below email from the Marina in my inbox this evening:
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    AT draft Regional Public Transport Plan open for feedback before 17 August
    Hi Boaties

    Auckland Transport have released their draft Regional Public Transport Plan 2023-2031 for feedback from the public. One of the proposed items in the plan is the  removal of the Gulf Harbour ferry service once the Penlink road is built. AT are proposing replacing the ferry service with bus services. 

    As locals, we are all well aware of the time it takes to commute from Gulf Harbour to the city by road. Currently the peak travel time from the rear of the Peninsula to Silverdale bus station can be 45 minutes; the ferry service is 50 minutes to the downtown ferry terminal. 

    Gulf Harbour Marina is part of the Gulf Harbour community, and we want our community to be a flourishing, vibrant place to live. If you think that the ferry service is something that you think plays a vital part in our community, please give feedback to Auckland Transport before 17 August 2023. You can do this via email rptp@at.govt.nz or by using their online feedback tool.  

    Registration Offshore such as the Cook Islands

    in MarineTalk

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    Spend a few hundred £ and get part A UK registry.  Any commonwealth citizen can apply for a British Flag for their boat.  This is one of the 'good' things that has happened re Brexit for us Kiwis is that UK wants to strengthen ties to the commonwealth post Brexit, and this is one of those things they have simplified to a certain extent....I say certain extent as there will still be some bureaucratic faffing around, paper work blah blah....but that is true for most things when dealing with governtments around the world

    Caulerpa now in BOI

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    1 hour ago, K4309 said:

    Putting out mooring buoys is an easy and logical way to mitigate the impact of the CAN's, to get boaties onboard, AND to assist in an actual sustainable long term containment strategy. And I suspect if they were done en masse the cost would be very low compared to the current regime if diving inspections, commercial divers, dive boats etc.

    There are limitations on most areas these days of how many new moorings you can lay, and anyway - it's not going to come close to the amount of boats that cruise and anchor in summer in the various spots in Hauraki and Northland where this weed has infiltrated.  Containment is a waste of time.  Move on and end the cottage industries of various bureaucrats that love to invent useless waste of time rules to keep themselves relevant.  

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    A bomb in the lazarette

    in TechTalk

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    The video will start in alignment with the subject line, but if you have 40 mins available to wind back from the start, I found the whole thing quite interesting even though it is a much bigger yacht than I'd ever want to own - the principles of maintenance are the same I guess and he tells good stories.  The old salt is Walter Schulz who started and still runs Shannon Yachts, a line of heavy displacement cruising yachts out of the USA....

     

    Poll

    in MarineTalk

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    27 minutes ago, LBD said:

    You can see that Scandinavian influence.... She is a Danish Spidsgatter design, refined and built in NZ by John Gander. Lighter and considerably faster than an Atkin/Archer

     

    Nice.  Better post some photos at some stage, always a good antidote to view than some of the modern boxes that people call sailboats these days :)

    Caulerpa now in BOI

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Not meaning to get political here, but NZ is opening its doors  - post Covid - to the world like never before, from Cruise ships, to immigration, tourism, overseas yachites, new trading partners (meaning more trading cargo ships).  What did everyone expect to happen when you do that?

    First it was Mediterranean fanworm, now it's Mediterranean Caulerpa, and next time it will be something else....there are always shades of gray, but I am black and white on this: Either close NZ, and definitely close Hauraki Gulf and BOI - ban all boating for five years, and embark on a multi $Million if not a billion dollar eradication programme.  Look how huge the area is already they would need to cover...thousands of miles of coastline. 

    Or - do nothing and just accept this is going to happen with more invasive marine species now and in the future and they are hella more hard to contain than land based invasive species, and therefore will cost way more to try to eradicate.

    Not making a black and white decision, and instead going for the gray like with fanworm just p*sses everyone off and ultimately does jack all anyway.

    Caulerpa now in BOI

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Banning sailing and boating in BOI, which is basically what you are doing if you ban anchoring in that area, would be a bit of a big financial hit to BOI in summertime would it not?  

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