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Replacement arrived on the Ali Express.

Been a while between drinks. I posted in the weekend thread about a trip to Coromandel that started with the raw water pump impeller self destructing. Here's the replacement. Great price, ordered 03/03, arrived a week later. Looks fine, if you hear nothing more you can assume it's lasting ok. The tiller pilot has been working fine now for a year. No issues with the mounting and leverage, but tracking is a bit random. It's going to get connected to the OpenCPN plotter this winter so that should resolve this minor issue.

boom tent in place already. Prepping for Cat 1 and some off-shore cruising? 😁

do you know the yacht at all? Check out the state of the one behind it...

Not sure what the vessel is, or the reason for the sinking

In all seriousness, I was warned of this. By the time you include sails, standing and running rigging and associated guff, the cost of free wind energy is more than the cost of cash-paid carbon

Meh Kick out the ICE diesel and go gas turbine on your genset. A bitch to start, but very efficient at fixed rpm, run on any liquid fuel, and that pleasing jet engine howl to leave them all scratching their heads. And you can cook over the exhaust.

Can I just reword that slightly. The environmental benefit of not using any petroleum products are definitely there, but the relative benefit of (insert alternative technology or activity here) vs petroleum fuel use is a far more fraught equation. For example, if I had to row our dinghy everywhere the general public would be exposed to unacceptable levels of vulgarity.

Hell, the 2qm20 in SO is now 50 years old. It's done about 70 hours a year for the past 4 years, so probably about 3500 hours in its lifetime. It uses around 3 litres an hour at cruise revs, so close to 10,000 litres in its lifetime. That's about a 10 tonnes of diesel. Which generates about 26 tonnes of CO2 or half a tonne per year. SO was bought because we couldn't fly to Japan for ski trips during COVID. Those flights were about 22 hours return. A passenger generates around 90kg of CO2 emissions per hour when flying. For two people our flight would have generated almost four t

that's not politics, its science.

Ok, you've motivated me. Two of these going in this weekend. No excuse really. They were $10 each. I'll need to make up a couple of cables but still...

I can't see any exhaust skin fittings...

Looking at the damage to the ferry, I would be very surprised if the only damage was to the pushpit. That may have been all that was visible, but an impact like that shifts engines and drivetrain, damages structural members, displaces cabin fittings etc... Insurer's generally go "knock for knock" in auto stuff, I'm not sure what process they might follow on water. The ferry's insurer has the option to recover from the other boat owner directly if the insurer declines cover. Again, an insurance issue, and a cost of business issue as you note. If the ferry owner was insu

Totally. But the requirements for conviction at law are different to the requirements set in a commercial contract. At worst, the insurer would use an "utmost good faith" type wording. Any insurer would prefer not to pay if they can...

Wording from a Vero boating policy, exclusions: "damage deliberately caused by the wrongful or reckless acts or wilful misconduct of any insured person;" If I were an inusurer, I would claim that navigating among other craft at several times the speed limit while not at the wheel or in control of hte boat qualifies as wilful misconduct. They may get hung on the "deliberately" bit and a lack of oxford commas.

That's why we have ACC. Before ACC, the victim would have to raise a civil case against the other party. This was expensive and had no guarantee of legal success, let alone financial compensation.

"Maximum penalties imposed by the court against an individual include a fine of up to $10,000 or a prison term of up to one year." So it was the maximum fine possible under the law. There would have had to have been significant aggregating factors (intention probably) to push it into the jail time area. I'm reasonably confident the skipper will have lost any insurance cover due to recklessness, so total cost will be into 100s of thousands.

We are a diverse and accepting family.

Seen that. It's under consideration. Change won't be immediate, we don't want to fall into the "2 boats" trap!

Just back from 12 days out. Original intent was Gt Barrier, but the weather gods decreed two weeks of windless conditions. So we lazily toured the islands and anchorages available around Coromandel. We didn't regret it. Stops included Te Kouma, Woolshed Bay and Deep Cove on Whanganui Island, Waimate Island, Moturua Island, Motuwi Island, and Happy Jack. Apart from Te Kouma and Chamberlain's on our last night, we had a maximum of 3 boats in sight each evening. Deep Cove we had to ourselves for 3 days. Along the way we had encounters with dolphins, orca, a number of hammer

Should we tell the family to be more gentle on you next time?

and this, my friends, is why refer to Rocket Scientists with a certain reverence...

Min! I say Min! Stop the crazy contrapunct rhythm footsteps Min!

The very guy. Based at Panmure club.

I suggest some commenters go back and actually read there article.