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Vinegar. Typically between 6 and 8% acetic acid. And you can make a tasty vinegrette afterward.

Dunning Kruger to the power of n where n = the number of people on board.

Some people are destined to be a warning to others

this may all be true K. But nothing in the law says it applies to your typical cruising yacht. The odd Hartley 16 might get caught out. I'm pretty sure it won't change our behaviour significantly. Maybe it won't change yours. I doubt either of us would end up being prosecuted either way, in large part because there is no offence yet, just a law. I view all law as largely performative. Its the nature of law - I think we both agree that law exists to regulate the lowest form of crustatia, not the more highly evolved mammals. Vast swathes of our legislation are observed in the br

they are only exempt if they are attached to the board ie using a leash. https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/members/2025/143/en/latest/#LMS1624247 I'm not sure there will be maritime inspectors in the surfline dropping in on unsuspecting leashless SUP riders, but there it is.

Watercraft. Full report is here https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66f37257074e0484592591ad/6881712b676dd6f05e6a85e4_2022 National Drowning Prevention Report.pdf

nope, the stats are from the Water Safety Coucil. They output the data every year. The interpretation is theirs, not mine, which is why I linked the screenshot of the graph from their report. But they certainly don't support a view that its weed smoking, overweight poachers and the edge dwellers of society that are drowning for lack of a lift jacket. Although they are there too. It s not clutching at straws to point out the real financial cost of a drowning. In a society where we have reduced everything to a balance sheet and cashflow statement, its probably the only thing that m

The actual data does not agree with you. The Water Safety Council produced a report in 2023 in response to a very high rate of drowning in 2022. 24 people drowned in incidents related to watercraft in 2022. The majority were middle aged white men. The majority were in coastal or beach settings north of the Bombay hills. Your prejudices aside, the people drowning look like us, and are doing stuff we do. They just had all the holes in the cheese line up. A reminder that our ACC system pays 5 years income to the dependents of a person who dies in an accident. So, le

It would seem so 🤣 Alternatively, I'm overthinking. These things are not mutually exclusive.

Following this to its logical conclusion, property crime is generally carried out by poorly educated people so we should not have the crimes act. Law almost by it's very definition is aimed at the lowest common denominator. This one is no different.

Let's not get too upset. You technically have to use you to seatbelt when moving your car one carpark forward on the street. Not aware of a huge number of people being dragged into court for breaching this Draconian law. You break the law taking the kids out of school on a glorious February Friday so you can beat the tide as you head out to the gulf No one I'm aware of being charged over this. This is a law that will be used post-hoc, excluding checks at the Kawakawa bay boat ramp.

Yes

Traumatic

If you can't post video of bikinis and drama, how else do you pay for your 50 foot cruising cat?

me too. Didn't even need a phone in the old days. Ohhhh, THAT hotspotting. Ok. Ummmm, yeah. No phone is the only type I know.

Mrs Aardvark has already made suggestions....

...because circumstances change. Also, while past owners attach emotional value an item, the current owner may not have bought the item with any emotional involvement and so they make an entirely pragmatic decision. Maintain and spend the value of the boat every two years in doing so, or use and then onsell to someone who is looking for a viable project. We are in exactly the same position atm. To upgrade SO and bring her back to a 10-year condition represents significant investment - more than she is worth even once it is done even without labour costing. We are better literally givi

saw this on a couple of recent euro-tubs at Westhaven. I was confused and then interested.

No. It's got liquid inside ( the L bit of LPG). It's designed to pick up the vapor from the top of the cylinder, not convert liquid to vapor downstream.

can thoroughly recommend soda blasting. Once you count your time and hardstand time, the cost of beer and sunstroke, it's a bargain. You still have to tidy up little areas, but the surface is great - paint sticks to it like the proverbial defecation to the night-time thermal insulation layer.

Paranoid=/=Cynical

4 weeks approx between each event. There is no gap.

...an environment no doubt celebrated by Committee Members at the more high-profile clubs...

In 1980 there was about 1.4m people in the 18 to 45 age bracket. There are currently about 2m. The % of population has dropped, but the raw number has increased. If there are 700,000 more people in the target age group, demographics is not the problem.

they are doing what almost every sports club in New Zealand is doing. Retrenching. No matter how you slice it, community sport in New Zealand is dying. RNZYS is a symptom, not the problem. Similarly strong clubs across a range of activities are contracting or closing. Bowls, ski clubs, RSA, rugby union, football, surf clubs and yachting. I have seen four ski lodges at Ruapehu close in the past 20 years. The larger clubs have spent ten years slowly divesting assets to get down to their core. They continue to downsize. The remaining clubs are in various stages of contractio