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There is a calculator on customs website that will give you an accurate and enforceable quote

Update. We went down to SO for the pre summer pre seasonal clean up and took the new jackets down, brought the old jackets back. Note to everyone with inflatable life jackets. If you can't remember when you last serviced them, take 20 minutes in the next couple of weeks to do so. The images inform.

meanwhile, hydrocarbon fueled airctaft can't travel fully loaded from JFK to AKL. teething issues are not the sole domain of EVs.

"I want to buy a laser dolly I can call my own, A dolly other fellows cannot steal..." Come on, sing along with us! We are here until Saturday...

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Did pretty much exactly that on a cabin top repair. Not sure I'd taper the inside - nothing is likely to force the plug outward.

Is that one of the newfangled underwater power winch thingees? Or a pull starter?

My guess is that the council was misled by office holders and employees. By and large councils and govts do not lie in NZ - its too easy to uncover the facts and you look like a dick. And your legal counsel are not big fans of being misled either because they also do not want to look like a dick. Not sure who said it, but it tends to be true - never put down to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

the audio of the interview is worth the bandwidth to listen to.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473161/america-s-cup-veterans-resign-from-royal-nz-yacht-squadron-over-barcelona-move

I'm required to maintain my car with a Warrant of Fitness to ensure its "safe" and "roadworthy". I could do it myself if the council provided suitable workshop facilities, but there is literally nowhere for me to do this! Its appalling. I'll probably have to sell the car.

It was what I meant but it wasn't what the article meant! The perils of speed reading between tasks. Thanks for raising my attention to it. @Kevin - perhaps I need some remedial communications training!

risk assessment. It's not put forward in the article as a complete and foolproof solution. Its put forward as a reasonable solution in specific conditions and considering all other hazards. Its your call Kevin - you can choose to do it or not do it. I just looked at it and thought "that's an approach I would not have considered." I'm guessing that if you are on your ear and taking on water in a howling onshore and 300m off a rocky beach, the question of what happens in the event that your manually activated jacket spontaneously inflates under your hastily donned hard jacket is som

Great article. Puts the pros and cons and (to my untrained eye) makes valid conclusions based on circumstances, usage type etc. Interesting point early on about using a fixed bouyancy jacket OVER an inflatable when doing a controlled evacuation. That make sense to me.

They do it because it approximates the ability to pay and it is administratively expedient to use fixed measures to set price points. There are many examples of seemingly illogical or usurious pricing in private commerce. Airline tickets and hotel rooms are classic cases in point. Uber taxi fares. Charge rates for plumbers. Sky TV sport channels. None of these businesses have directors that get voted in or out by the public every three years, so they effectively answer to no-one. /threadjacking

The old car truism is that you can have cheap, fast and good - pick any two. I'm guessing it holds true here too. we have a 130W system utilising the 20A version of this controller from this supplier. Fit and forget. Reasonably programmable as long as you don't have some weird multi-chemistry battery bank.

New AC racing class. The submarine series

You must be stoked - that looks stunning. Divorces are cheap compared to boats, so keep the focus where it belongs!

$220/tonne plus cost of transportation Hours & Prices (wastedisposalservices.co.nz)

https://www.maritimelaw.co.nz/insight/permanently-importing-a-vessel-into-new-zealand-duty-and-gst-issues and, somewhat more authoritatively... https://www.customs.govt.nz/personal/move-to-nz-permanently/vehicles-boats-and-planes/

^ sailing in three dimensions

I'm going to have to check and see if there was any fence-jumping in the family - I'm becoming increasingly concerned you are a brother lost at birth...

^is that a euphemism?

I'm in airline catering - I can probably do you a deal on business class meals for the owner and skipper - we can do economy meals for the rail monkeys of course.

For reference, Hutchwilco's self-service instruction sheet is here, and a video for those who are more kinesthetic is here As Psyche says, it's not rocket surgery. 😜