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Like a lot of legislation, this is left to the discretion of a suitably qualified person and to allow for a wide range of circumstances. "Adequately" is not "optimally" "ideally" or especially "to meet the prescribed ratios set out in Cluse 27 subcluase b para 22". Its a finding by the delegated person inspecting the craft that the crew in toto has an adequate mix of skills, capabilities experience and training given the inteded voyage (and the risk to others including the rest of the crew I would imagine). As signatories to various treaties on provision of assistance to those on th

Bunnings

^ not that I'm cheap, but thats an easy choice decision to make.

Thanks everyone. I'll try a tough love setting technique over the next few weeks and if we still have issues I head off to the closet JA voter's place of business and see if he takes my dirty red roubles as tradeable funds😂.

Interesting take on loss of public amenity.

Yeah, we are lucky to make 3kt in reverse! Pull up on it and then load and feel for it to "bite". If we cant reverse at about 1/3 throttle, call it done. Unsure. Might take some photos on Friday and you can let me know.

We're a bit leery on anchoring - an ex-work aquaintance lost a launch at Slipper Island last year after shutting the engine off immediately after setting an anchor that actually didn't set. We tend to sit for two or three minutes after setting with the engine running and watch some marks on-shore to make sure we aren't moving. If we need to we have immediate power to reposition. Over the weekend we were at Rotoroa (Cable Bay) and Ponui (Chamberlain Bay) in a rising, blustery, shifting wind. Both locations we set the anchor as normal but it ultimately dragged - both times while we

wow. I was thinking a 1.5 - 2m "drone", but these things are 7 or 10m loa

fixed frequency (the noise I mean)?

Our anchor is increasing in weight proportional to my increase in girth...

This is true if the courts say its vexatious. I understand they now have. That's how it works. I don't at all disagree with your other points and would go further - there are those who use the process as sport.

It is a development that converts public land to a private use. It should stand close scrutiny.

Hey! I resemble that comment! Each of these little problems was identified on the water. Last weekend we were at Rotoroa with my two daughters, one with her partner and 8 year old along for the ride. Left Wairoa River at 7am in dead calm, slugged our way back up the Waiheke Channel at 3.30pm into 25kn and a following sea with wind vs tide, getting to the jetty just after 5.30pm. At least the 8yo enjoyed it.

^indeed Fish. And if you had been in the engine bay of SO, you'd know that working in there requires similar skills and flexiblity required to get through a vertically offset squeeze into a sump in a King Country limestone cave system... I wont tell you what the requirements of the other profession's skill set is.

should have taken this advice at the time...

I'm picking Stepping Out has an old-school system so it will likely be fibre. There is a grease packing device fitted (very simple screw crown fitting) so I figure there is no real need ot go all high tech and fancy low friction. The Reserve Bank of Fosters actually has quite reasonable pricing on fibre product by the metre so if no-one violently objects I'll probably go that way.

found a great how-to website on it - just what you said harry, but it took them about 5,000 more words and many pictures!

Dripping is becoming steady dribble. Any recommended sources for packing material for repair of a traditional stuffing box?

Must be a Spencer performance specification...😁

Very late follow up. Prior to the Great Bum Polish, Stepping Out struggled to get to 5kt flat out under motor. Now we get 6kt @ 2000rpm easy. Same differential under sail. Maybe it was worth it!

Its a pretty standard electrical equipment fit pattern. While it won't be identical, Jaycar or similar should have something

that there is one excellent bargain for anyone wanting a no-risk entry into this size/performance range. Great piece of lateral thinking too!

Price reduction - $750 takes it away. On TardMe at the moment with a start of $650 if you want to chance it. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/caravans-motorhomes/parts-accessories/cookers-hobs/listing/3069746139?bof=eNzfajw9

I reckon the easiest way to see if you can handle it is to hire a 40 foot container and live in it for three weeks in the middle of winter. No cheating - cooking on a gas burner and a portapotti for a loo. Park the car 500m away and you can only get to it on a scooter. Rig up a special device to tap on the roof of the container, but only every now and then. Practise getting up in the dark to figure out wtf it is.