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1974 means its coming up to its 50th birthday. If its unreliable now and you don't know its history, Its a gamble to keep using it - it will fail at the most difficult time in your sailing life for sure. this article sets out a formula for sizing. I'd go a step bigger in Wellington given the likelihood of "difficult" conditions. Here's some more thoughts directly targeting your boat size. I would be balancing weight and portability against thrust as key factors. In that size range and leaving some of the questionable cheap options to one side, simplicity is probably more importan

this is useful

Or more likely the split pin

It burns!!!!!

I dont think I can afford that.

I went a step further and gave myself a good spanking with the wooden spoon and two hours in the naughty corner. I'm now up for assault.

So, post-Cave Creek when all the ex-bushworkers were managing so well and getting stuff done without that pesky H&S stuff getting in the way...

I believe there is a balance point somewhere between inbreeding and mongrelisation. You need industry knowledge, but you also need an outsider's view. How you get those two things and then balance them is a trick that eludes many organisations, public and private.

Yuo both mistake structural or managerial failings as proving a need for deep practical understanding. I'm not saying MNZ is effective. I'm just pointing out that no organisation that size is necessarily better from being led by subject matter experts. Case in point - Air New Zealand: Ralph Norris is acknowledged as one of the most effective CEO's Air New Zealand ever has had. He came from the banking industry. The current CEO came from supermarket and big box retail. Chris Luxon - Unilever. He sold soap. Rob Fyfe admittedly used to be an aircraft engineer in the airforce, but

I'm pretty sure the Road Transport section is not staffed entirely by retired truck drivers either. Maritime NZ has three core functions (according to their website) and none of them require anyone at Department level to operate a vessel. The DO require skills in legislation regulation, coordination, industry consultation etc The skills required to run a government department are not the skills required to be an operator of a device controlled under the department's function. Its a laughable argument to suggest that everyone right to the top of any organisation must have career workin

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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.