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Its totally the best method. VISA you have a long term relationship with. AliX not so much.

Hiya Wheels. Refugees can come into the country in a number of ways. The UN refugee resettlement program is one, direct application from outside a country is another, application for asylum once landed in a country is another. There is no queue. Please repeat this to yourself - there is no queue. The people on Manus Island have not been transferred to NZ as a group. In fact, the Aus govt has specifically declined to allow that. This particular individual was part of a deal between Aus and US for a refugee swap, but that had not been finalised as you note. He was not in NZ b

we wont be powering boats cars or houses with them any time soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device

It does have good high level analysis for a range of activities. At $33/yr its good value as a second opinion - 10 cents a day... Windy + METVUW + Met Service = greater certainty

its an annual subscription not a one-off purchase

^and yet, no outcry from any other party in the house. Its an irrelevance. We have a quota - and its miserly (ironically even by comparison to our Tasman neighbours). Any accepted refugee displaces another off the list, so its a zero-sum game. Personally, I'm comfortable that we have taken an educated and published author and film-maker who has been employed here from the day he had legal ability to be in paid employment.

^Only if they are NZ citizens or residents and can show they have a specific need or meet the relevant criteria. You know, just to keep it real and not ZB-ish...

bureaucrats are a service branch to the government - the civil servant class. The people enforcing at the coalface are officials. Think: Minister of Police > Commissioner of Police > Police Officer /sidebar

take a brush and wait for the next rain shower...

Are you up for a global circumnavigation without any instruments? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/sports/sailing/marvin-creamer-a-mariner-who-sailed-like-the-ancients-dies-at-104.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

a lifejacket stowed in the boat is as useful as a seatbelt stowed in the boot...

We are here on poles - Wairoa River, Clevedon. Basic facility, but serviceable. Stepping Out draws 1.7m and we are ok at high tide +/- 3 hours

air movement. Get some.

^this is the most interesting mix of fascist socialism I have seen here. Thats not necessarily a criticism btw.

You give the impression that the people attempting to subvert quarantine are making rational risk/reward assessments when they do so. This is, like any argument for penalties after the fact, irrational itself. The mycoplasma bovis event identified that, despite a legal requirement to maintain records of stock movements, up to 70% of farmers knowmingly ignored this requirement, in a large number of cases because disclosing would mean that a "cash sale" would have had to be declared... So despite both biosecurity and Inland revenue legislation, over 2/3 of farmers chose to break the law a

Some reality here... NZ currently has managed isolation for about 250 people a day arriving. Even that is stretched. Regardless of any claims by people arriving from the Pacific, they would need to isolate. We have no capability to oversee isolation of people outside the managed sites, let alone manage isolation of people living aboard. A complicating factor is that, if we were to announce that the boarder was open ot cruising yachts etc, that status would be near impossible to reverse quickly - a sailor who has committed and departed for New Zealand on a 10 day to 3 week voyage from

sounds like an older rock music fan "Meh, nothing worth listening to was produced after Woodstock..."

Thanks Steve. No, scubash must have been another drinking buddy/sparing partner/love interest, not me...

We've stayed at thier house on Kawau twice in the last two years. Its a great spot and the reading material would keep the most ardent yachtie (especially the global cruising variety) engaged for weeks. Condolences to Lin and all that knew Larry (I was not one of them).

Hi Vic - assuming you piad with a credit card, discuss a charge back claim with your card provider. The process sits outside the aliexpress system - essentially if the bank thinks that you have been ripped, they reverse the transaction and recover from the vendor. Its the one thing that makes eye-watering credit card fees worthwhile

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/parts-accessories/winches/listing-2710928172.htm?rsqid=4a940f7e42a94cfc821f2c79c8117434-004

Drill to put a tyre valve fitting into it and use a bike tyre pump to put a couple of psi of pressure in, or until one flat panel goes "poink!". Spray test as above, or leave overnight and check its held pressure in the morning.

This is exactly the set-up on Stepping Out. The gas bottle sits in a separately boxed compartment in the cockpit locker, and drains to the rear of the cockpit (open/scoop transom, so no issue there). A simple flat lid sits in a short rebate in the top of the gas box, fingerhole to pull it up. Closing the locker clamps the gas box lid closed as well. Simple, effective, compliant.

Just newly insured our 1974 Spencer through Mariner Insurance. Wasn't cheap - around 6% of insured value with $500 excess... 3rd party only was not an option (they wouldn't do it) and the excess increase to $1000 only made a few dollars difference in the premium.

Apart from Coastguard, who provides a VHF radio course that meets legal requirements for registering a call sign?