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HI Jim, My four stroke weighs 43kg I'm not talking about lifting off as in right off the bracket...I'm just talking about the outboard in the raised position and the lowered position - how easy or hard is it to push the bracket up and down with the 9.9 on it. Is this what you are talking about when you say it is near impossible for you to do without your pulley system? Or are you meaning taking the outboard right off the bracket for storage is near impossible without the pulley system?

Fellas, http://www.tenob.co.nz/shop/Outboard+Motor+Mounting+Bracket/Auxiliary+Motor+Brackets/Adjustable+Motor+Brackets/25hp+Stainless+Steel+Transom+Fit+Rise++Fall+Bracket.html For those of you with sailboats that use an Outboard only as propulsion, have any of you used a Tenob bracket, and if you have, how easy hard are these brackets to push down to lowest position, and raise again? I have a 9.9hp. I had a smaller outboard on my previous boat, and the bracket I had was a Garhauer, and was a muthf**ker to push down to the lowest position. From reading the Tenob website I will

Got a call from council. The pointed me towards the table below. He basically said to avoid loud noises on Sunday to avoid the hassle of neighbours phoning the council., or if it will only be for short periods, then do the whole door knocking thing. An addendum this table says if you work for less than 15 days, the above levels increase by 5dB. ie 80dB Mon - Sat etc. Still, its a pretty restrictive table in my opinion when you look at the table I have also included of the noises common DIY tools make. Anyway, as I have / will be needing way more than 15 days to complete my refit

LOL, the dude was wearing one of those sikh scarve things on his head and was from some security firm..was legit as I rang the council soon as he left- I kid you not. It's obviously beneath actual council workers themselves to get off their chuff on a Sunday so they farm it out to security firms.

I thought boat owners are "Rich Pricks" and there you are KM living in a neighbourhood that would make Breaking Bad proud!

Well I have some news. On the back of Freeeedom's unitary plan posting, I just have got off the phone to the council and laid a complaint. The Council worker actually agreed with me that the noise control part of their website appears not to match the unitary plan, the unitary plan being that you can indeed do DIY on sundays between 9am-6pm at 50db, and you can go over 75db for short periods according to that table. I could not believe I got a council worker actually agreeing with me! She is going to look into it and promises to come back directly to me advising exactly what noises I can a

Wonder why is there no mention of the unitary plan standards on the noise control section of the council website. It is like two different policies.

Hi mate, I'm in Auckland. But yes, it was a security firm that came round. I phoned the council noise control ph number, and it was legit. I had no leg to stand on. The council rules for Auckland that I pasted in first post, state that it is up to the noise control to assess themselves on a "case by case basis". There is no mention of decibel meters,

Mind you, I suppose I am a hypocrite because when my sailing dream comes together I will probably be the first to complain when someone called K.Hunt pulls up in the anchorage I am in and has his generator going all night.

You are in Wgtn Wheels? I did some google research and they have a similar DIY policy. I bet there are not a lot of people in Auckland and Wellington that have no idea about this DIY Sunday Noise policy. When the hell else are those of us supposed to do DIY projects other than Sat and Sun if we work the usual Mon-Fri? It appears in Auckland's case, this Sunday DIY Policy became City wide when the "Supercity" was formed. To my way of thinking, if you live in a big city and you don't want noises the f*ck off to the country...and then they'll probably complain about cows mooing or seeing c

IT, in the Islands and Asia, did you have to "treat" the water before you drank it? Edit: I read your post again and see you had filtered water containers. So, no need for an additive as well to make doubly sure the water had no nasties?

Started after 10am. Would have been finished by 1130am. And agree with your last line 100%.

I think what I find more frustrating is that if the neighbour - whomever it was - had have approached and said "hey, how long you gonna be?", then I would have said not too long. And if I was still sanding two hours later, then go ahead and ring the council. I find the whole covert action of phoning noise control without giving me a heads up about the noise of a sander all a bit ridiculous. LIke I say, tomorrow morning at 730am I can go stand on my front lawn and sand the sh*t outa something and wake the whole neighbourhood up - and there is sweet F-all anyone could do about it.

Heh heh yeah mate! Stupid thing is, i can start sanding 730am tomorrow being a Monday! I never would. That is too early...mind you a facetious part of me feels like doing just that!

Not sure what is so special about a Sunday in a secular country, but just got a verbal warning from the council. They actually drove round to specifically advise me I can't use my sander on a Sunday. My boat is on a cradle in driveway and I was sanding my rudder, and also sanding the interior. . Some tosser in my neighborhood complained about the "excessive noise". What I find strange is, that on any given Sunday there are motor-mowers and blowers etc regularly used around my neighborhood - and I would gather most Auckland suburban neighborhoods - and apparently if someone complains th

What, are they gonna have a fleet of council enforcers whizzing around anchorages annoying the fu*k out of people on their boats. And what for? For a so called "pest' that is here already? $480K budget PA to enforce? What are they gonna do if you just give them a false name and address if you don't meet their fouling standards?

"I was over in Cowes working on the boat one weekend and I remember hearing another reporter saying: “There’s old Robin – thinks he’s going to sail single-handed, nonstop around the world.” I said, “Well I’m going to try.” “It can’t be done and in any case you couldn’t do it,” he said. And I remember thinking, ‘You don’t know me. You’ve no idea of my background.’ I said, “Are you a schoolteacher or something?” “No, why?” “Because you’d be bloody depressing for your students if you were.” “You can’t say that!” he said. “I just f**king did,” I said, and went back to work." Love it!

I think he got caught DIC recently

I would have thought overseas cargo ships would be bringing this creature in on their hulls regularly, so what the point of hassling yachts?

So, if I am reading this right - you actually don't bother with deviation and variation to get the magnetic course to steer in the traditional sense....like what all the books and "yachmasters" teach, you just actually compare the true heading on the gps to heading on the compass , and that's your "magnetic compass course".....being aware you will need to keep an eye on it for leeway and tide and adjust as necessary so you don't drift into dangers.

With all due respect, don't hijack my thread with this sh#t, please. I'm learning lots and enjoying the different takes on navigation and don't need it to waiver off to some sh#t that has nothing to do with the thread I started.

Wondering who sets their plotters and Gps up as true, who sets them up as magnetic? It's a preference thing obviously, but there must be a good reason you personally choose one over the other. Someone told me they set theirs all up to give magnetic readings and headings so that they don't have to do the maths when they then steer via their compass,,,,however, I was thinking that if your compass is not swung correctly (as I suspect most are not on your average joes boat) then this could put you a wee bit crook. Yes / No? Actually, speaking of compasses, one guy told me that he saile

Below is 12M berths available mainly for rent ( a couple for sale) from just the first page of Trademe marina berths. If you want to be a total train spotter, you are welcome to go through rest of T/Me pages, but one page was enough for me. This starts to affirm my suspicion: Marinas have had it good for too long with their fu__king ridiculous berth rental rates. To have this many up on Trademe indicates it is now becoming renters market (at least for punters in the 12m range) It seems like people are voting with their feet and giving marinas the two fingered salute with their idiotic day

On hold. Ignore post. Will bump when ready to sell.

Is this stuff poisonous enough that you have to empty out the boat first before you lace it with this Boric / Borax Acid so that you don't get any on your stores / boat equipment and therefore eventually on yourself?