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Has been aboard SO all the time we have owned her, but not a Murray winch in sight. Solid bronze(?). Free to collect from Papakura or we will be at Fitzroy next week, or courier at cost.

Dead bodies of paying participants litter Everest. I'm sure there are other examples - trips to the Titanic for example. A paying rider is a h&s liability I would have thought. The Australian law is the basis of ours, so I expect any serious harm to a customer will lead to scrutiny by the Aussie equivalent of WorkSafe. A big prosecution may sort the problem out.

Agree, but at night (one at about 10.30pm, the other at 02.00am) in frisky conditions and early in the race while caution is least likely... Humans are busy being human, and blokes being blokes. This by way of explanation, not excuse.

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360534279/bluff-harbour-pilot-boat-runs-aground-stirling-point

Thanks for the banter, information, discussion and news over the year. We head to Fitzroy early in January for a week or so, and hopefully the weather gods are more docile than in previous years. Wishing you all a great holiday and summer season, fair winds and calm seas.

Bills contact details. The ancient YaMariner himself.

point is, there is an acceptance of responsibility, not a passing on of it to some as-yet-undefined and no doubt publicly funded entity. Its actually well easy to arrange for removal and disposal. Boats are hauled and road transported all the time, and there are disposal and transfer stations around the country. Add it up guys. Again, it just costs.

Nope,that's not the only option. It's the cheapest, but not the only. If you own a boat that is truly end of life, you should dispose of it appropriately. Pull it out, break it up, sell reusable stuff eg winches, send the rest to managed landfill. Trouble is, that costs. Psyche's proposal is a solution if the cost falls fairly. Owners have to take some reasonable responsibility. There is an existing model - cars. End of life cars are now (mostly) disposed of by the owner at a cost.

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