Zozza
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2 hours ago, muzled said:
It's currently 9kn gusting 26kn at Bastion Point, an hour ago in was 8kn gusting 16kn.
If the sun was out and you closed the bridge in that wind you'd get laughed out of town and rightly so.
To me it sounds like NZTA have done ok.
Yes it's forecast to howl later on (as it is forecast to do right now actually - but it's not...) but it swings to the South which is nigh on running parallel with the bridge. So other than high sided vehicles it still should be ok I'd have thought.
Fair comment muzzled. I guess it is the sudden gusts out of no where that can cause issues in seemingly benign conditions....certainly those. readings at Bastion Pt you mention are indeed benign which made me wonder if we are in the actual eye, but the eye is a ways offshore
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Hosking on ZB reckons cyclone a bit of a non event, schools should not have closed, and is asking Hipkins is it really justifiable to close the country's biggest city again....
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Well it stil goes against the advice to Aucklanders to stay home...you are hardly staying home if you are on a private vehicle trying to get across the bridge...to do what? As I say, Emergency services, of course. Private vehicles should not be out there -- a sudden gust, a truck flips...why risk it?
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I just listening to RNZ and they have said authorities have opened some lanes on the Harbour bridge here at just past 6am in the morning. What the hell is wrong with the idiots -- unless you are a fire or ambulance truck, you would be an absolute idiot a 10/10 in the 'Muppet-0meter' to be anywhere near trying to drive over the bridge in these conditions...and the worst is yet to come
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42 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
Take my word, the higher figure is closer to the truth.
I should have said that I don't think the Gulf Harbour reading is anywhere near correct
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2 hours ago, Psyche said:
How can the wind be 100+kmh at Tiri, yet only 20 odd kmh at Gulf Harbour?
So, not sure I am trusting that link...
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I see your Tiri & raise you a Mokohinaus
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1 hour ago, Black Panther said:
I've turned into a pussy sailor. We are moving to the marina in a couple of hours. I'm calling it our Xmas cruise.
BP you have probably been living aboard and sailing almost as long as I have been alive (well not quite, but you know what I mean).... this the worst summer in Auckland / Northland that you can remember?
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Something to watch during this weekend as looks like won't be much sailing going on with the impending bad weather
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Not wanting any political sh*tfights here -- but just want to highlight that Hipkins has made a good choice in ditching this ridiculous mandate. Good news for those yachties and boaties that make regular use of outboard motors, as any increase in the amount of biofuel in petrol, is not good for modern four stroke motors. Excellent.
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Oddity
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12 minutes ago, Black Panther said:Yep we had a discussion about what a waste of space a chart table is unless you want to write a novel.
So....purely online charts BP?
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This is Kevin Mc's boat? - a regular on the crew forums...sad to hear he has taken a turn...hope things improve for him.
Stick it on your driveway with a cradle from Boat Haulage at $2 per day....-
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Yes, it is ridiculous. La Nina is the main culprit from what I have read, with a few other factors such as the big high which has sat out in the eastern pacific since Christmas, and stops all the lows passing over NZ quickly.... however, the outlook long term is for La Nina to eventually fade away this year with a return of El Nino on the cards....but who really knows
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4 hours ago, motorb said:
How did you mount those solar panel so flush with the deck? Everything like that I see has a big junction box stuck to the back of it which doesn't suit flush wiring like that...
Keen to know as fitting more solar to my little 25ft Tracker has proved very difficult.
For the Solbian solar panels on the pilothouse, I requested the option of the junction box under the panel.
The skinny panels on the side deck, made by an outfit in Sweden called Sunbeam, the junction box comes underneath as a matter of course.
Be aware - non chinese panels like I have are not cheap. I spent over $3K+ on the panels all up-
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9 minutes ago, waikiore said:
Boats fine , house no good.
Oh dear....What happened waikiore...or is it still to raw to talk about?
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19 minutes ago, Psyche said:
The erosion process is natural weathering, wave action undercutting the mudstone until eventually the top bit falls. Its made worse by removal of native vegetation and earthworks which alters the drainage and water table. These heavy rains saturate the ground and weight tends to makes the strata slide on top of each other, if you've ever been to any of the gold mining sites and seen the power of sluicing where they used to literally demolish hillsides, its obvious you really need to have good drains on a cliff site! Whats surprising about the guy who lost his swimming pool (and his house has to be red stickered surely) is that the piles were 8 metres deep. Some of the cliffs appear really stable but all the slips looked like piles of mud, rocks and clay, not something Id want to live on. To be fair the majority of cliff top homes are ok and will be ok for quite some time, but unless considerable stabilisation work is undertaken, eventually many more will succumb to erosion. How long do houses have to last in NZ, 50 years? so pretty much all of them are past their use by anyway lol!
Not wanting to start a political sh*t fight on global warming, but I have always felt coastal erosion is way more an immediate threat than greenhouse gasses when it comes to where you choose to live..... I mean, they long ago stopped building on those chalky cliffs in UK (Dover) and on the UK East Coast because the sea is slowing reclaiming those cliffs through natural erosion...why would NZ coast cliff areas would be any different..
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Three of our downstairs rooms flooded. Two rooms now cleaned out / drained, one to go today, but the forecast heavy rain next couple days has me on edge.
My spare anchors are not supposed to see water if they are not on the boat.
Outside house was a torrent of biblical proportions.
My smaller boat safe in Gulf Harbour Marina
My bigger boat remained safe in cradle on the driveway -- glad I had it on concrete not a grass area of the property
Overall, never seen anything like it what happened Friday
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7 hours ago, B00B00 said:
We were also hit on our mooring by another boat that came loose and sustained some damage. Quite a few boats here with damage.
To be honest it was terrifying and very very close to catastrophic for us and many boats around us. We had an H28 wrapped around our bow and slowly going under the boat. I cant believe our mooring held. Luckily the incoming tide slowed down the current after a few hours otherwise it would have likely been much worse.
Closest I have ever come to losing my boat I think.
Holy sh*t. What mooring field are you in ?
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Bring out the cards or the monopoly set
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9 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
Unlike the electronic version, a wind vane just gets better as the wind freshens.
Thanks, that is motivation to get the wind vane up and running
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@9.25 you can see I have an electric auto pilot operating, but frankly in Tiri channel, which was a little nasty, I preferred to helm for that period anyway
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3 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Trying to helm? That boat needs a wind vane.
I have one, (Windpilot) and been meaning to set up the pulleys and lines
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1 hour ago, waikiore said:
On shore events and prizegiving confirmed as cancelled, regatta decision Thursday pm
It aint looking good.
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I've posted a Youtube vid of my sail back from Barrier to Whangaparaoa.
May be of interest to anyone wondering what the heck the junk rig is all about...
I did not push the boat hard but still made good progress under reduced sail, and unfortunately my iPhone ran outa battery just before I entered Tiri passage, and sheesh it was a nasty little **cker yesterday was Tiri channel...so probably good that I was concentrating on helming rather than effing about trying to film
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I think Aucks really has dodged a bullet so far....