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Good article, I suspect there will be a cascade of failures that led to the grounding but ultimately it will come down to underfunding and shortcuts somewhere. Losing power is forgivable for DIY yachties operating 30 plus year old diesels but not for a naval vessel.

This is most likely directly attributable to the loss of hard won experience in the workforce, add in the lowest tender wins mentality and here we are. NZers are not known for long term thinking and investment for the future.

Here they are using their state of the art equipment just before impact cd58a8d1-67b2-4874-9688-1c7173175e79.mp4

Judith Collins is being interviewed about this; [Interviewer:] This ship that was involved in the incident off Samoa this week… [Judith Collins:] Yeah, the one that crashed into the reef? [Interviewer:] Yeah [Judith Collins:] That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point. [Interviewer:] Well, how is it untypical? [Judith Collins:] Well, there are a lot of these survey ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that survey vessels aren’t safe. [Interviewer:] Was this surv

"mate, you can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next" J Spithill

Great vantage sport at stokes reserve, think they'll block public access?

Have you priced one? might be cheaper and easier to get one of the rack. or

Thanks for sharing, I imagine it's still close to home for more than a few people in the boating world.

Somehow I am reminded of this

I was joking of course, but blocking access to a thousand boat marina over a weekend in the middle of summer without leaving an access lane seems a bit rude

will Panuku compensate occupants?

The club is doing a series of evenings highlighting some of NZ yachtings history

Yacht racing is a bit like watching test cricket, its not very engaging unless you know the game. The foiling version is like T-20 and gets delivered in small helpings that don't test the attention span too much. F1 has something similar going on, it's not that exciting unless you know the rules, the teams, the personalities, the grudges, the history, the technical side etc, and the more you get into it the more interesting it becomes. The short version is that the AC is the same

Interesting course of action, from a general perspective I am not sure how the SSANZ handicap committee have made an error since they don't set handicaps but simply adopt them from YNZ's PHRF committee.

The reasons why I decided to do Vic Park division last year was because I wanted to get home for dinner and its where our competitors are. This year when it was a PHRF requirement to be in points I initially questioned why but a much cleverer person than me explained that PHRF is the fairest way of handicapping because its gives a range for the boats performance potential as opposed to club handicap or racetrack which is weighted to crew performance. The difference means that a poorly sailed boat with an artificially low racetrack handicap could be commandeered by a rockstar (or two) and a set

The biggest con in the AC is to fool people into believing its a national sport, it was and remains a wealthy mans pissing match that we commoners are invited along to help pay for. Marvellous technology but its unlikely to ever filter down to club level and if it does may the gods have pity on us as raised foils scythe their way through the fleet 😅

Anyone that races displacement needs to jettison anything to do with "traditional" yacht racing. These are not yachts as we know them, there are common elements but they are more like low flying aircraft. Apparent wind sailing is nothing new, in the 1800's they were sailing on ice doing 4x wind speed. Current record for ice boats is over 200k's! Foiling simply reduces wetted surface and here we are, its not possible to control these boats without advanced computer systems, in fact they could be sailed without any crew because humans are there for the rules not because the

Jim Bates, here's his obit and some of us have had the pleasure of spinning his winches Adventurer, inventor, engineer and well-known Whangarei man Jim Bates led a colourful and exciting life. He was, until he died last week, New Zealand's last surviving link to Sir Edmund Hillary's "famous five" - the group of five New Zealanders who drove to the South Pole in 1958 on Ferguson (later Massey Ferguson) tractors. Mr Bates, a developmental engineer and prolific inventor who patented numerous inventions that were used in the dairy and marine industries, died peacefully at his home in Kamo a

and every bulkhead it passes through requires a fitting with two joints (one either side) if I understand the regs correctly?

Most people just ignore the gas issue until they need to deal with it for insurance etc. Gas is a lot safer than people suggest, how many houses have gas appliances that rely on an install way back in the dark ages? On boats its all about confined spaces and leaks, the typical explosion is waking up and putting the kettle on and boom. For small Kiwi yachts a sensible DIY job that follows good practice is safe, most (all!) of us haven't blown ourselves up and there is no way most of the installations would pass current regulations. The portable camping gas stoves are probably more dangerous

lol! I'm imagining the boat righting and sending you into low orbit

its not a yacht as we know them, 200 tons of lead ballast! any idea what this means?

I watched day 4 on youtube, and tbh the best part is the pre-start where there is a bit of jostling for position. After that it has all the excitement of apparent wind racing i.e bang the corners and follow the leader with uphill and downhill looking pretty much the same. Quite a bit of commentary about the skippers mental composure and heartrate, and how the galley slaves are getting on which I thought was very caring though

Anything to help the commentators who appear to be struggling already