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OK so things got a bit hard to follow towards the end there but it looks like there's potentially the option to investigate a reduced and/or seasonal hardstand at Okahu Bay.
Sensible outcome but I wouldn't say it's over yet.
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21 hours ago, Psyche said:
3 p.m!
yep - then they'll say how it's just rich old retirees who this affects.
meanwhile, us younguns dont have the luxury of leaving work early to slog across town in traffic just to be ignored by self-serving councillors
(That said, I'll be trying to make it)
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Looks like another pearler this weekend! Maybe we'll even get enough wind to actually sail this Sunday.
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15 hours ago, Plato said:
....add me to the 8
I'm still waiting for a response from them.... seems they gave up and ran away once they had to face any scrutiny of their statements....
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The GPS seems to have quit too! Not an issue but we've had to be a bit more conservative in our anchoring without any depth sounder .... well aside from the lead one...
Still great to be out. Making big plans for sailing tomorrow. Might consider the walk up the hill tonight too depending on how we feel after dinner. (Great idea btw thanks for that; might be the plan for new years!)
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Great news! The outboard is a runner again! Mustve been some debris is the float stem seat or a sticky float. Inside the bowl is pristine so must have been from fitting the new fuel pump back in May.
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Well station bay is out now as I'm still in our mooring about to pull the carby off the outboard..... let's hope it's just a dirty/sticky float valve but she's not idling; flooding and overflows. Also overflows when priming if that means anything.
Wind seems to have gone NE, too.....
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Looking at tonight's forecast, what's the best bet for calm anchorage tonight to make a good "first of the season" overnighter? Leaving westhaven at about 4 or 5 knots at 3pm isn't leaving us a huge range of options, but I reckon station bay would be a good spot to shelter from the wind going from North to South if we can get there...
Oh, and the missus wants to be able to see some fireworks.... any good ideas out there?
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On 11/10/2023 at 3:25 PM, waikiore said:
No but motor racing is becoming more attractive as the apartments creep down to the water at Westhaven and Panuku raises prices again and again
Given the reverse sensitivities around Western Springs, Panuku shutting down Mt Wellington via a backroom deal, and Pukekohe raceway being torn up for terraced housing I'm not sure Motorsport is going to fare any better.
Really best to just walk around your neighborhood and join a Golf club, because that's all that will be left before long.
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3 hours ago, El Toro said:
The spill, nor the rahui appear to be impacting the dolphins which swam through Okahu Bay for a few hours yesterday
Just don't eat the dolphins and you'll be fine.
The water down in westhaven was actually looking pretty good yestersay (as compared to the usual green murk after a weekend of rain)
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On 19/09/2023 at 4:14 PM, Okahu Sailor said:
Ports of Auckland are struggling to hold onto their spot and they return millions to rate payers. Do you honestly believe a subsidised hardstand on prime, public, waterfront park land is going to last 5, 10, 15 years into future? Encourage the Council to allow club yards to expand their footprints, fundraise for better systems at these club yards, petition against zoning changes that allow property developers to build around marinas, and support the clubs that are doing what they need to survive.
Closing the ports is a developers wet dream and not in the interest of the wider city at all, which is pretty clear to everyone with half a brain. I'd hardly call that a good example of why we shouldn't be saving the hardstand.
Where do you get the idea the hardstand is subsidized? My understanding was that the council set the rates and could have increased them at any time, and that despite that it was a net profit on the books.
As for the rest of your post - much of the initial protest to the Orakei Board decision was precisely that a regional asset wasn't theirs to decide on, and that auckland needed a coherent marine plan to better manage these regional resources.
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On 20/09/2023 at 7:26 PM, K4309 said:
Last chance to submit your feedback on the Landing Hardstand closing. Consultation closes this week.
It is an easy form to fill out.
The Landing Concept Plan (Pathways to the Sea) | AK Have Your Say (aucklandcouncil.govt.nz)
Ahhhh bugger I can't believe I missed that! Nothing on FB, no emails from various parties I've supported or interacted with, and only a 4 week window. What a shame.
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Sounds like Orams is going to have a lot of issues with reverse sensitivity in the very near future.
The whole concept of high end apartments and retirement villages alongside heavy marine industrial sites is just ridiculous. Auckland Council is steadily dismantling the Auckland Marine industry and making no efforts to safeguard it or provide any alternative sites.
Just like the nonsense idea of shutting down the port, only property developers are benefitting from this while aucklanders are paying the price, and places to work and earn good money continue to move offshore.
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Just an update on this topic:
I'm still at Westhaven, and as of this morning, I'm the third boat (that I know of) in the last 12 months to have a rotten mooring pole snap off. Westhaven aren't 100% sure where to put me, as they dont know which poles are sound or not.
Further updates to be made once this is resolved, but long term plan is to go on the Weiti waitlist, and see whether I get a mooring before I eventually give up and sell. At the very least I'll need to be using their hardstand given the lack of capacity remaining anywhere else so at least the membership fees wont be wasted.
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One would think that the coastguard app could include an anchor watch function..... but that can barely give updated nowcasting data when required so maybe I'm asking too much.
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On 6/05/2023 at 3:33 PM, Steve Pope said:
Who flys the anchor shape, when at anchor? who actually has one?
From what I've seen, there's no shortage of boats who don't have any form of anchor lights, either...
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3 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:
the police will only write you a ticket if you're 10% over the speed limit.
Well that was indeed the case which is why the "Zero tolerance" weekends were to such fanfare. Additionally there was a court case over it where a judge ruled in favor of a cheeky defendant, and since then the police have made a statement that such a practice is no longer to be expected.
As for cellphones, I've seen zero enforcement from police. Same for red light running, and frankly, traffic enforcement overall has definitely dropped off a bit the last few years.
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On 27/04/2023 at 12:02 PM, alibaba said:
I'd go back onto a mooring, but I was broken into twice then, and also there is the problem of insurance. May be I could keep on sailing for a few more years [ bloody old age doesn't help[!], if I could share costs.
I'd suggest the poles at Westhaven for the security and insurance etc with less of the cost, but they are trying to kick us out and wont take new bookings.
There's some new poles out clevedon way (Brooklands boating club) that are very well priced, but it's tidally limited.
Weiti/Stillwater have poles and are very affordable, but theres a years long wait list.
But Westhaven insists there isn't demand for poles (while they ramp up the prices and refuse new bookings), but say they have growing demand for (14m+) berths! (willfully ignoring the 2013 plan feedback to provide "affordable" options when they ripped out the historic swing moorings, and now there's less total berthage in the marina than before they started ripping up poles for the new piers.)
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On 18/04/2023 at 8:58 AM, Ed said:
10am Today....
Do we have an outcome from that?
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Agreeing here with all said above - All forums are dying, killed by Facebook and Reddit which are both designed to keep users within their enclaves.
Even Google is struggling as their search results are filled with useless Search Engine Optimized commercial results and increasing volumes of bot-written content. Using google to search within reddit is sadly now one of the best bets out there.
There's now this weird gap in the "internet knowledge archives" where forums started to die and info for more recent equipment or systems is actually very, very hard to find. There's also old forums going offline and all that knowledge being lost forever.
Nowadays, a lot of the youngest users out there are relying heavily on Youtube (and tiktok!) for info, which is absolutely staggering given how poor 95% of Youtube guides are, how there's no way for accurate content to filter to the top, and no way to reliably seach and locate specific details.
Further, I've noticed an emerging trend now for people to just post their easy to search, simple (or inane) questions on reddit first without googling, and upon finding the answer is more than 2 steps, 20 words, or not to their liking, then asking for a youtube video on it.
I'm worried we peaked somewhere around 2016....
The future is going to be even more interesting as AI starts to answer users search questions by trawling the internet and repeating bad info, scraped from sites written by AI bots all repeating search terms to generate site traffic....
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On 11/04/2023 at 10:16 PM, Strong Persuader said:
Yacht was at secure anchor in Pohutukawa Bay, Rakino when struck by extreme weather event at around 2040hrs 9/4. Dragged rapidly onto South Island in very high winds and sea.
Oh wow good to have the clarification that the vessel was at anchor, rather than a mooring. I had suspected the usual poor reporting had got that detail wrong....
Feeling a bit more justified in leaving our anchor at Station Bay and heading back to the marina before the winds picked up that afternoon.
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On 12/04/2023 at 9:46 AM, Ed said:
A big part of the issue was the local board was responsible for setting the haul out rates, but hadnt updated them for years, hence the yard was very cheap to use, but struggled to cover its costs.
Nobody is objecting to a price hike to bring it in line with other commerical operations
On 12/04/2023 at 9:52 AM, waikiore said:Really I thought it was the operator who set the rates for haul and launch
FYI the same Orakei local board had voted against raising their rates a few years previously.
Also, from what I heard, The Landing was actually returning "non rates revenue" to the council so it wasn't actually a drain on public coffers (and therefore a closure is NOT in the interest of improving the council's fiscal outlook)
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1 hour ago, ex Elly said:
I note that this occurred around the same time as the tornado hit Howick
Nowcasting at Tiritiri Matangi was reporting 45 knots northerly around that time so I'd expect that to be the same at Rakino.
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Everything is out of the boat and the cabin airing out, but I don't have the power to run a dehumidifier or anything like that. Fibreglass hull and (so far) fresh water only so some positives there I guess?
Current plan is a dozen damp-rids and leave the 12v fan running overnight when I can't have her open, and even then I'll set the hatches to allow a draft.
Theres wet timber all around the base of the cabinetry, the floor boards are in the cockpit for now, sails have gone to a loft to dry out and the carpet probably was due for replacement anyway I guess.
Any advice from some saltier sailors than myself? Maybe some impossibly low power dehumidifier magic?
Asking for a friend of course.....
Okahu Hard Stand meeting
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I still don't trust it....