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Selling the rest of the 2qm20?

If it's paye you are an employee. Employees have an employment agreement. The employment agreement is a negotiated document. Feel free to make reasonable prosals to change it before agreeing to it. 😁Pragmatic employment advice given for free to crew members. Several satisfied customers so far.

Also today, trial fitting a solar panel off the pushpit rails. We have a 120w panel in front of the dodger, but it spends most of its time half shaded. Two 60w panels off the back will up the electricity game on board.

Control lines at the base of the mast had gone from grey to green. It was time for a wash. 15 minutes and a medium spin should do it. VID_20240804_143754.mp4

Probably something to do with EU and wider privacy laws. While your old email address may have b een given with implicit consent ("by following this link you accept our marketing sh*t for the rest of your life and possibly into your next life unless you opt out through our byzentine and archane opt out process") that consent now has to be explicit and opt in.

I get the feeling razor wire wouldn't work in these cases. https://youtu.be/5WukKFYe6Jg?si=ID8m3TEqWeBB2XNb

For the multihull aficionado

Limited, it's pretty technical and subject to case law. Not an area of the ACC operations manual I have had to familiarise myself with fortunately.

His commercial insurer won't pay as there is no legal ability to insure against compensation liability. However, his business will very likely have increased ACC levies as a result of the very high claims cost following the event.

Unfortch, suicide is not deemed accidental under the act, but I get your drift

You can always believe me.

If you need an anchor, AI has you covered

It is a little known thing about ACC. IMO, they should talk more about it.

Paid by ACC (you and me in other words). Accidental death whatever the cause and setting results in up to 5 years' income of the deceased paid to the estate. https://www.acc.co.nz/im-injured/financial-support/financial-support-after-death

More often than you might think. That's the justice system at work. The evidence falls where it falls, the judge or jury assess on what they hear and see in the courtroom. This was a trial requiring " beyond reasonable doubt". That's a very high bar for a prosecution to hurdle, and rightly so. The judge had doubts, so the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

Not guilty https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522769/enchanter-trial-skipper-lance-goodhew-found-not-guilty-of-breaching-duties

The Colin Chapman Law of Race Engineering is similar. He held that any car that made it past the finish line was over-engineered.

"tighten it up until it goes spongey, then back off a 1/4 of a turn..." Advice we used to give home mechanics when they asked how tight spark plugs should be fitted. Works on rig too!

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Close the southbound lanes on the bridge and call it a grandstand.

$131k reparations. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350329490/boat-skipper-ordered-pay-131k-after-crashing-russells-blue-ferry

If we were all rational followers of logic we would all be in share boat partnerships or would hire what we needed when we need it. Or both. This makes the capital issue null and void, and frees us of most if not all the maintenance drudge. But yachts are, for many, primarily dreams. While you are building fixing painting maintaining etc, you can express and extend the dream. Sailing is reality. It often doesn't match the dream, so all that working time delays the disappointment!

I suspect MNZ have other priorities as of about 10pm yesterday.

absence of proof is not proof of absence.