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Good Dog. Could it get any more boring? The sponsors must be spewing.

TNZ was a completely different boat. Pointed higher, better boat speed, and so better VMG. No errors, better overall handling than the first race. Still a pretty boring procession. Watch the start and the first 3 minutes, watch the last 3 minutes, and you pretty much have seen everything worth watching.

27km plus change vs 25.5km plus change. If you have to sail 6% further, you'd better be 7% faster. TNZ ain't 7% faster

Correct. So whence the $5m figure being tossed about? Just bad reportage with not a lot of backgrounding done I suspect.

It doesn't take a lot of digging to find the owner also has significant interests in Silver Yachts in Australia. Silver Yachts is a large superyacht building and maintenance company in Freemantle. Which begs the question, wtf would they come to NZ for a major refit? And kinda explains why they now advise they will be going to Aussie for the work. Quelle surprise n'est pas?

I get it and personally don't disagree with the concept as an option. I'm guessing there is a practical numbers limit to the option as well - its not an opportunity to open the border.

Given both Thailand and HKG are effectively military states with a somewhat lax approach vis-a-vis citizen and human rights, I'm guessing they don't have any qualms about getting people to wear jewellry that sends your location and personal health details on open access telecoms systems. Here, the paranoids on both left and right would be screaming the house down. Comparisons to Home Detention bracelets would no doubt be made, and not glowingly.

We are small, a village really. Its to be expected that not a lot happens, and when it does everyone is gossiping about it. What I miss is anything with analysis and long form journalism. We used to have it - Listener (RIP) among others - but these forms seem to have all but disappeared and we are left with quick-fire clickbait as a poor second prize. I'm keen if someone wants to point me in the direction of a publication that is doing this.

Nope - played the problem. You deride internationally successful publications as not publishing news because it only contains "sh*t about sh*t that happens not around me". This position can really only be interpreted as a narssisitic and parochial point of view. It doesn't in any way address the original question of identifying balanced media. It provides us with the insight that balance is not actually what some people want. They want a publication that affirms them. You put yourself up as as the arbiter of balance and content. It would be remiss of me and not addressin

I'm picking our gay black feminist communist leadership has other cunning intrigue to concern themselves with as they wring their hands and cackle into their copies of Mao's Little Red Book. They leave confounding the public and destabilising common sense to their minions. The halls of science are filled with those whose sole personal satisfaction comes from issuing sweeping and misleading directives designed to cause widespread panic and to weaken the moral and physical fibre of the nation. Proof of this comes from the 2010 Christchurch quake. Tiny by global standards and easily d

Yeah, well, they can't be held responsible for the limited range of your outlook I guess.

mechanical sanding vastly improved by the use of a near-disposable drywall sander. Ozito is Bunnings house brand of cheap nasty power tools, but at only $159 retail this 225mm random orbital drywall sander is great for this purpose. It has built in dust extraction so you dont need a big workshop vacuum and much to my surprise this feature worked fine. It comes with a pack of shitty cheap velcro discs in almost entirely the wrong grit range (150 to 400) but getting 80 and 120 grit discs isn't a problem. You wouldnt want to put it to a professional work program, but for this one-off

BBC. Stiff upper lip, but straight up. New York Times (partially paywalled, but worth it) The Guardian. Telegraph for balance. The Atlantic (paywalled, but worth it) for its long-form journalism Al Jazeera, with provisos Stuff - distinctly improved on its earlier incarnations Newsroom has interesting mix of opinions and has added to local investigative journalism The Spinoff. Its miles from balanced, but open about it and doesn't keep trying to sell me a house

nope. Some publications have editorial integrity and can report a situation with appropriate and balanced coverage and/or without linking the reportage to a strapline like "What is (put name of situation here) going to do to your house value?"

Tried making my own once. Used my cutting/dicing hand to wipe my eyes part way through. When I recovered, I vowed to always buy it in a tightly sealed bottle, never to make it ever again.

disaconnect the battery at the battery before everything else. the live supply to the starter should be connected to a stud on the starter solenoid - be gentle loosening it. Hold the cable firmly, and gently remove the nut. If it won't turn, use your normal sprays and potions to get it to release. Starter should just unbolt (un-nut?) from the bellhousing.

Meant to be an hour after high tide on the Manukau - looks more like an hour either side of low.

Odd, cos us radical leftie woke socialist sychophants think Granny Herald is a capitalist clickbait property developer advertising flyer with the additional downside of having self-promoting opinion pieces by centre-right hacks and lurid talkback hosts flanking every advert for a DGZ Des Res house. Potentially, we are both correct - the paper and its website are a mess of bullshit that would be an embarrassment if it was produced by a first-year journalism student let alone from what was once one of the leading publicaitons in the country.

yup - makes it operate better. Exhaust wrap is used to retain heat in the exhaust so the engine is more efficient (especially in turbocharged engines, but also elsewhere). Cooler engine room temps are just a lucky by-product.

They could have a special siren that signalled when they were on a delivery run - I'd imagine something like this would work and be recognisable.

I see Brutalist is still a preferred architectural style in Europe. 😀

i prefer the drama of the shotgun cartridge starter, but a spring powered impulse starter is pretty cool. I don't think there is room in our boat to swing the winding handle though...

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thats just so the grinders don't feel excluded

Garnet-blasting happening on Saturday. I may video and post here so others can see the process and outcome...