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Only here in NZ. Yes yes, I get that's where we are, but we are an exception in grown up countries. The HM is only partly correct, as is everyone commenting. The problem arises from each of the points made. Voluntary insurance in an environment where there is no registration regime, where many boats are poorly maintained and inexpensive, where licensing is non-existent, where reparation/remediation costs are high, where insurance options are few and far between, and where enforcement is lax, is bound to be taken up by the minority.

So not only uninsured, but uninsurable.

A few sizes down from you, but we replaced a 20kg plough with a 15kg supreme and experienced a HUGE improvement in security and easier setting.

But, my yacht is a taonga! Year of build Vessels over 50 years old may be classified as protected objects under the Protected Objects Act 1995. If the vessel is a protected object, it cannot be sailed offshore without (as well as an International Voyage Certificate) having export documentation and meeting other legal requirements. If your vessel fits into this category, you will need to contact the Ministry of Culture & Heritage before filling in this application form. It is your responsibility to ensure any export documentation is sought and held as necessary.

Free advice is worth as much as you pay for it. I'm with psyche. Consult a qualified MA. It will certainly help to have their documentation at Cat 1 time, as well as insurance time and sale time. You'll sleep better when you are 856nm offshore as well.

When a system is so ubiquitous that's it's operation is not obvious.

...and they are back. Dubai windless, like watching overgrown Paper tigers.

OpenCPN. Multi-platform, mostly free (a small cost on Android and Apple), it works. Plays well with NZ raster and vector charts once you find your way through the licence system.

yup. NZ raster and vector charts are free.

Problem is, you end up smelling like marinaded mussels...

Necromancing the thread here in the interests of a PSA. Up the Wairoa, we get enough green growth to support reforestation attempts. Since I found this thread, we have sprayed a 1:6 dilution of Pak n save's best value lavender disinfectant a couple of times a year. It's works brilliantly. I just spray using a cheap garden sprayer, then leave it on. Works on the spray dodger, paintwork, windows, cleans up the green track along the toe rail, and takes about twenty minutes. A good rainfall washes it clean.

Playbouy in disguise! The shortened mast and cigar profile from the image angle had me tricked

Who is the Spencer in with you?

"Starboard!!!!!!!"

Sat out Saturday given the forecast, and left Clevedon for Bryant Bay midday Sunday. A crash gybe at the southern end of Ponui pulled the starboard traveller control block clean out of the deck, but apart from that a fun sail, and a pleasant night parked under the cliffs at Bryant Bay. Monday we jerry-rigged the traveller control block and exited north into the stiffening norwester. Two reefs in the main and 60% of the headsail out we still saw 7.5 knots towing our 12 foot Ali dinghy. Came home down the Waiheke channel then bashed through a 1m chop across to the Wairoa. Again, no

Pretty common unit so I'm betting there are several mouldering away around the place.

Andrew of swirly world fame being interviewed on radio NZ. Interview about all things marine. It will be available as a recording if you miss it live

work out the effective top speed difference between a 300hp rig and a 600hp rig. Hint - it isn't 100%

The sort of idiot who finds it necessary to have 2 300hp outboards on the back of a 25 ft fishing hack.

The findings https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530326/both-skippers-failed-to-keep-proper-watch-leading-to-catastrophic-ferry-collision-report?fbclid=IwY2xjawF0L6JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHb0LExSBfa9-OXodMeZhcznyGRfj_Blq1HkXIY3CTatSOp5wAIP7noWFkA_aem_Vw_1aFy79bJ4RlV-0XOJrw&sfnsn=mo

She may get the opportunity.

*Boom, tissssch* "He's here all week folks, tell your friends, and try the fish it's excellent..."

In other news, Dunedin Hospital is definitely cancelled.

The environment will be fine, the front is still on.

"Maritime component commander Commodore Shane Arndell said the grounding occurred while conducting a reef survey." I'm gonna use that excuse in future. Just like I use "tired and emotional".