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Plus 3 nights accommodation at the departure end getting everything ready, plus airfares, plus 10 days off work....

technician time is not free.

I figured. I was trying to get it all in scale. None of this stuff is cheap and it takes surprisingly little effort to burn through $1k an hour on even a small demolition with easy access...

Assume 40 footer. Project manage, $5k (consents, contracts, etc) Tow to shore, make safe, 4 people @8 hours each @ $60 charge rate plus equipment, $2000 labour plus $150/hr towage and platform, so $3.5k Break up onshore, 3 days, 4 staff, concrete cutting equipment, site safety, loader at $200/hr including operator for 16 hours, truck to disposal, two loads on a large tipper, hourly rate of $250, minimum half day. Disposal fees at $100 a tonne, say 25t of disposal. Removal of toxics, oil diesel etc Site clean and restore 4 people 8 hours. Beer money.

Depends what af you are using and where you are located

...and two of the vessels having fuel supply issues (diesel bug?) on the main engines that made the situation increasingly difficult to manage.

those rudder issues eh... For that in relatively benign conditions is appalling. I see that Alliance rebuilt the rudder and its bearing prior ot the race. I wonder if it was engineered, or built "good enough"

Check with Steve Hill, yard manager at Panmure BYC. He was a big fan of the stuff and may have some.

We ended up beach landing for pickup and on the pontoons returning Beach landing tested my surf IRB skills and found them wanting.

Ooookay then...

Can anyone comment on the viability of tying up to pick up at Maraetai to passengers? We draw 1.7m

With a flapper disc...

Are you sure? I doubt that Altex could change the formulation without re-registered it. Has there been a new product registration, or any change in the product information? There may have been, but I wouldn't rule out environmental changes as the cause.

Mrs Aardvark is blaming Blair's new baby.

Everybody got their buckets ready for the tears of frustration?