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works fine on a glass-over-ply Spencer too. I might have been lucky and chose a spot with no voids. Uses an airmar in-hull transducer silconed to the hull and filled with radiator inhibitor fluid (the green stuff) as per the manufacturer's instructions. The kelp and mussels on the outside do tend to make readings a bit hit and miss.

whenever anyone questions the cost of something, my first reaction is to work out how much it would cost to do otherwise. In with a supplier yesterday buying some odd-sized but necessary high tensile bolts. When they apologetically told me the price, my reply was that I couldn't make them for 1/10 that cost so its good value. Swimming a mile would probably cost more than $6 so your yacht is cheap and will get cheaper on a per mile basis!

The democratisation of boating has its problems eh. I suspect that the personality types attracted to jetskis are exactly the types who shouldn't be allowed them. I could be generalising though!

Or the mistake we collectively made (and to which you refer or allude) in not providing suitable treatment and rehabilitation to prisoners. Without condoning this guy's historical or recent behaviour, we have to assume its the result of a less-than-ideal mental condition. Our prisons do a very poor job of fixing this - they belong to the Department of Corrections after all, not the Department of Health (who, going futher down the rabbit hole, seem to prioritise mental health in that waaaaaay down the back of the bus kind of way). Consequently, the mad are treated as bad and that te

We've had three winter trips to Japan. They eat differently (well,duh!). We ate like locals, not in tourist restaurants but in small street places. One memorable meal was in a bar with a dirt floor. In a ski resort. Another under a railway line and included pig ears and a range of stuff that was best not to ask. Portions are smaller. Protien portions are tiny. Even cheap food is exquisitely presented. You eat with your eyes for sure in Japan. We currently have a 25yo chinese guy living with us. He is astounded at our waste, the poor quality of the ingredients and the

An error of interpretation - read my second sentence without assuming a comma after the words "healthy" and "unhealthy". The fact is, we are unhealthy because of reasons far removed from and beyond our access to seafood. The Japanese are healthy, but not because of their seafood access.

A coincidental relationship is not causal one. We are not unhealthy because we have depleted our seafood resources, and the Japanese are not healthy because of theirs.

my experience is that they distract, not annoy.

check reception of gps on your phone - as Jason says, the sattelite access and signal strength can be assessed on a variety of apps. This is just one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chartcross.gpstest

good innit. I have used it several times in HR matters oddly enough. It stands up.

tender rig though...

https://www.wunderground.com/history

Simlar to the situation when NZ was 8-1 a few years back...

Thanks Steve! Yeah, they are intended for a light spinnaker and general shore line and minor line handling so I am not toooooo concerned. Also, the fixings are all in shear not tension, so as long as loads are kept reasonable (what else would you do with a single speed 16 winch?) I think we are ok. If access was anywhere near reasonably possible, bolts would be there but, hey...

and after all that good advice I couldn't get access under the pedestals, so they are fixed using 14g x 35mm 316 screws. Six on each into 1-inch timber. Liberal use of 291 as well.

Thanks Kevin, any idea what register it would be in NZ or how to access it?

I get the displacement, but what is the o/n number?

A Wright. Oddly prescient and a pun all in one name.

I just got some nice older Maxwell 16 sheet winches to use as secondaries on our Spencer Saraband They are brass and in good nick - someone has loved them and kept them clean and lubricated. I'll be mounting them on existing winch pedestals in the cockpit behind the primaries. The four mounting holes in the winch are countersunk and 6mm (or more likely 1/4 inch). Should I use socket screws with large washers and nylocs under the pedestal, or just go with same grade timber screws?

Next time

...and then there were two...

So you need to spread that as $40k for the purchase including survey one year insurance and three months mooring, and $20k for your first year operating/reconfiguring to suit you/deferred CAPEX. It will vary a bit, but that is what I'm seeing and what friends/family have experienced.

Or an NZ in Auckland, 2000.

ok, I may have judged a bit early...