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Some might and I might be one of them. but the reality I've seen elsewhere and in NZ is that all things being equal a location with excessive proportions of elderly people almost invariably decays and dies. It would take a significant and concerted intervention to turn this around. /another threadjacking

My self-ascending gear has arrived!

Some of it is self evident. Oldies tend to consume less personally and so spend less in the local economy. As communities age, the infrastructure needs change - for example schools shrink driving a reduction in teachers and other staff who leave and make the population older on average. Families consider the state of the local school and it's loss of capacity and exit for locations with better or broader education opportunities. This again reinforces the aging. Eventually the community is ALL old people. It becomes more unattractive for young people. Property values decline because

SO has a bath! Its about 4,000 sq km.

Petrochem dollars buy up football interests including the World Cup in an environment where money and success has overtaken ethics. Sound familiar? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/11/qatar-hosting-fifa-world-cup-soccer/672171/

The tradesmen are probably too busy parking on the footpath in their Tradiemobiles while they charge exorbitant hourly rates to construct shoddy "lifestyle units" crammed 57 deep onto the 900sqm section next door to you. Before they head off for a spot of beach terrorism on their jetskis according to information posted a few above this. Of course, if you point this out you are the fun police and a NIMBY. Even when its on a street near you. /rant and threadjack There appears to be ample public assess open space in the leafy suburbs and a surfeit of harbour lounging space. Ther

The isotherm kits are refreshingly easy to install and work brilliantly! And only 1.5 boat dollars.

which would you prefer to look down over from your Paratai Drive address - a park with Pohutukawa-fringed beaches or a semi-industrial boatyard?

So, yachts over 6m barely make the margin of error. Realistically, that would include quite a number of trailered yachts too. And I think I see Psyche's point. With ownership focused on managers and business owners, by definition moored boats are elitist. In its non-pejorative sense.

pounds feet and inches! Was the original on papyrus?

You'd cast it wouldn't you? With a HDPE bearing in appropriate material?

Long shot, but we are pretty happy at Brooklands Boating Club on the Wairoa River, Clevedon. Yes, a bit of a drive for a westie, but only two hours to the bottom end of Waiheke under pretty much any conditions. And in a Tracker, the river depth at the mouth will not limit you a lot. Poles, around $300 a month, very sheltered, jetty with drinking and washdown water, dinghy lockers (rack actually) secured gate entry and parking. No clubrooms or other facilities. https://www.bbclub.co.nz/

like racehorses, F1 cars and supermodels. A short but glorious life, but often an ignoble end.

A while between drinks. SO languished over winter - since late May - and so about 4 weeks ago we went to the mooring and found a new green colour scheme - not much else had deteriorated though. So the next weekend we took the waterblaster down to the jetty, tied up and spent a happy hour blowing all the moss off and generally tidying up before setting out for an overnight at the bottom end of Waiheke. Wine, beer, fried food, sunsets, yada yada. On the way back we had a blast - reaching in 15 rising 25 with a few firm gusts, one reef in the main, rails and then cabin windows under

This came into my FB feed this evening. I make no comment or endorsement, but invite yours as you are probably better educated than I.

I have no practical assistance, but damn that was a funny read!

They took out the diesel engine to make space for the firewood for the woodburner... A logical change 🙄

sounds good, but the psychology of it says detection works more effectively than punishment. People commit any infraction because they think (self-justify) they won't get caught - this goes for parking and speeding offences to murder Legally, increased penalties are more expensive to administer than lower penalties. This leaves less money for detection. On that basis, I'd prefer to see more money spent on education and detection. In any case, the penalties are already pretty significant - forfeiture of boats and any vehicle used to tow the boat or transport the catch, and then fin

Waterblasted the green moss off, sailed to Ponui, ate, drank and watched the sun set, returned Sunday in a good stiff 15 to 25kt. Saw orca at the entrance to the Wairoa (Clevedon) river. Broke nothing, finally got the cabin heater running reliably and playing nicely with the fuel system. Not a bad start to summer.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/130095891/abandoned-boats-piling-up-around-the-country?cid=app-android Apropos of some recent discussions

yeah, we got a crop of those starchy Pacific Island jobs a few years ago in Auckland. I expect to get more of better quality as time goes by.

warmer water temperatures aid the invasion of tropical organisms as well. These new (to NZ) species are just another indicator and outcome of warming. Still, we'll be able to grow bananas in Northland!

Thanks Muzza - that is essentially the plan. Been trying to get on the hard for a few weeks now but life and slow moving yard jobs are conspiring against us. Depending on how motivated I feel, the plan is to cut out the full depth of the sheet about 100mm each side of the butt, epoxy in a new section, glass over.

https://www.bayofislandsmarina.co.nz/bylaws-and-regulations/

Is that the water mixer spur on the left? If so, its likely some thermal stress as well. I had a new one made by a guy in Waiuku - great work, nice bloke, not cheap or expensive. I'd use him again. You can courier the old one to him, he uses that as a pattern to buld the new item. Ryan is contactable if you have something in mind - 027 289 4007