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His stat of 40% of approx 3500 vessels effectively abandoned at the mooring, and a disposal cost of $20000 each time with large steel vessels much more, a $50 annual fee increase is not going to go far.

Damn. Aaah well. That's my Bahamas plans shelved. I guess it Barrier again instead.

Couple of ideas depending on the total design. Lift and swing hinge that allows the lid to lift 8 to 10mm before swinging up. This allows a seal that is in compression vertically, but not under shear when opening. Second option is a bifold design. This has a shorter shear and added advantage of less vertical height needed when opening. Third is to fillet the lid so the hinge seal sits against the side of the box instead of the top

Or, perhaps, they have advice to the contrary and are legitimately concerned.

5 years ago today we took possession of SO. Lots of fun had and lots of water has passed under the keel in that time. Total value for money on the grin per $ scale.

Yeah sorry, open CPN is the plotter. Has versions to run on android phone or tablet, windows, Linux, and apple. https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloadopencpn.html

1. Not normal. Return to sender. 2. Open plotter. Runs NZ charts just fine in vector or old style raster format.

This could easily describe the majority of marinas in NZ including Picton Waikawa, Havelock, Waiheke Kennedy Point, Toots, etc etc. Perhaps not the main Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington's several.

That supposes that the additional water and road traffic generated don't reduce amenity for other water users, and that visual amenity loss counts for nothing. It also presupposes that no other recreational activity happens in the bay, eg flounder fishing, kite and windsurfing, kayaking etc.

I didn't know that interislander had gone international

God thats depressing...' *calls hard stand and makes booking for next bum paint*

One of the advantages of an extraordinarily low sailing budget is that extraordinarily large problems arising from expensive options are null and void.

Without wanting to shift this into an even more political area (mods!!!!) the situation is a result of residents voting with their short-term brain. If you oppose the rate increases that are required to continue services and to ensure that systems like sewage are consistently n+20% capacity, you have ipso facto agreed to the inevitable less than ideal outcomes. In Rodney, there has been 40 years of retirees and small farmers screaming about their limited means while they crosslease and subdivide their nest egg properties (generalisations, but not by much). Hence, the Mahurangi shitflow.

Train as a biologist withe a double major in organic chemistry and then specialise in marine organisms and their susceptibility to different targeted chemicals presented in a semirigid polymer coating. At the moment we are stuck in a double bind. We want a product that deters fouling, but we also want marine environments that support marine life. If you use an effective antifouling and it relies on a poisoning process for effectiveness you will be harming the marine environment. The future likely lies in systems that are purely contact topical and don't wear off so cannot generally

Holy crap. At those prices I'd be making all repair attempts too!! Good luck.

Or grind it out, epoxy fill it, etc etc

well they won't get liver flukes...

In-fes-tim-inal, adj, an infestation of extremely small battery problems. See: extrarodentially and infesterminal

Ablative

In what paint as a base?

At least. Two separate machining operations (external and internal), plus the grinding and welding itself. Good work catching the other one before damage.

1964 documentary series on islands in the Hauraki gulf. A glimpse into a past long gone. The series was reprised in 2018 by the original presenters daughter. Those are also available on nzonscreen. https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/islands-of-the-gulf-rakino-and-kawau-1964/quotes

Cost of new drum vs cost of repair?

He's posting video on Facebook for those with social media addictions...

dammit....