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My forefathers fought and died in The War to earn us all the right to spread invasive species into any environment we damn well choose. Anything else is communism by stealth and a socialist agenda that will have us all limited to floating toy blocks in paddling pools you mark my words this chardonnay swilling group of horsefaced women (if you can call them that) and lycra wearing seckually ambivilent blokes who've never done an honest days work in their lives just want to make sure the penguins are safe and the toheroas haven't escaped. I'm exhausted mate. Got any spare diesel?

Maybe we should get a flotilla together and protest on the streets. We should tow them with utes. And have hand-painted signs making wild and probably offensive claims about unrelated issues.

Stepping Out is getting a bit of mould from a lack of ventilation. With the heater now fitted, I want to be able to close the companionway but still get some ventilation through it. I'm proposing to cut a window into the upper washboard, fit it with 4.5mm acrylic sheet rebated into the ply on the inner and outer surface (so, two sheets of 4.5mm with an airgap between them). The outer sheet will have ventilation holes (about 25mm diameter) across the bottom of the sheet, the inner will have vents at the top. There is approx 6mm airgap between the sheets. All corners radiused to red

^its actually a huge skillset and quite a commitment - like most reality tv, its a business not a lifestyle. For every La Vagabonde there is a trail of wannabe's who don't have what it takes and disappear after 5 episodes. I'm like you, I totally admire those who pull it off.

brings a whole new meaning to "single-handed" *stabs out mind's eye*

hell man - you make that thing look like a 125! Are you very tall, or is it a camera angle thing?

Thanks for that - I understood that Manapouri was direct feed to Tiwai only.

Totally get what you are saying erice and largely agree, but Manapouri has some technical issues if it is grid-tied. It could be (and I'm happy to be corrected) that the losses in conversion are acceptable when measured against the cost of getting the generation plant hooked into the network including transmission line upgrades, synchronisation etc

the Everest answer.

Don't think of it as criticism. There is a subtle but important difference between critiquing performance and criticising it. In lay terms, the former is about saying what could have been done better, the latter about saying what was done wrong.

Eels in your nether regions? Isn't that a verse from T'was On the Good Ship Venus? Aaaaaaanyway, heater is now operational, and spinnaker socks got a test today because the river was totally becalmed and it was easy to do... The heater is bloody fabulous. Worked first time, not tooooo noisy once its started (first start-up is a bit like an elderly P&W turbine winding up, after that its ok), controls are easy to use once I'd youtubed some instructions. https://photos.app.goo.gl/QRCQ9Po9C8J6vZuL7 Spinnaker socks are in two designs - one with (orange) and one without (gr

what aircraft do - tiny little holes drilled through the inner glazing to provide venting.

was just about to write this. Double glazed (separate sheets into a rebate on inside and outside) during build could acheive the same thing.

Joseph Lucas - Prince of Darkness. My early career was as an auto-electrician - Bosch over Lucas any day, Denso over either of them year after year...

So Norway and Denmark share generation resources, and Denmark shares with the rest of Europe.

if we were big enough for nuclear, I wouldn't look back. Make those atoms do a decent days work is my opinion. Cleaner than coal, more reliable that solar and wind, smaller footprint than hydro.

they would here if it looked like this: They are freakin' amazing ot ride in. 300kph, smooth as. And when an express blows through a regional station at 180kph or more you feel the pressure wave before you hear it. Amazeballs. https://youtu.be/Cm6TLNitR0M

I got a couple of small signs engraved using signomatic.co.nz Upside: Easy process, relatively cheap @ about $20 all up (I thought), and I was in control of it all including size, layout etc Downside: The website advised 5 - 7 days delivery. It took 2 months. Upside: Comms were good. When they hadn't turned up after 4 weeks I emailed. They advised they were really sorry, had left their end, post is a bit dodgy atm. Also, they are in Sweden! They reran the order and resent in case it was lost in mail. Downside: 25 days later, still no signs. Contacted them advised t

I'm picking its a pragmatic estimate. the 1852cm2 measure derives from the old 2 square foot, which itself is probably some old bugger's guesstimate of what the capability of glass at the time was. 2000cm2 is so close, and materials so much better these days...

an intellegent and thoughtful launch skipper* would make the considered decision to travel slower then, since 12kt and not quite planing would be the worst part of the performance envelope for the craft. Just like on the road, its a limit, not a target. *granted, a rare commodity

the pawls are the little teeth that stop the drum from spinning backward.

must have been lawyers in another life eh...

I suspect its the capital fairy. Like any business, when you are working hand to mouth the niceties go by the wayside. If you are billing on big items and have bigger capital backing you can afford to hire, train, resource and most importantly manage well. Like everything, there are exceptions. But small businesses tend to stay small for a reason...

You have mail winter