Black Panther
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I wonder what that is all about
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I don't have a fuller, but my rig uses the one headsail from 0 to storm jib
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New j8b a few years back, pointing improved about 5degrees. Thanks Lidgards
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5 hours ago, K4309 said:
I'm sure there are exceptions, but I understand deploying an anchor is popular among boaties when they want to go to sleep at night and don't want their boat to drift onto rocks, bang into other boats or drift way out to sea while they are asleep.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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29 minutes ago, K4309 said:
I wasn't anchored there. I haven't anchored anywhere there is caulerpa, regardless of a CAN, rahui or just caulerpa.
All I was doing was stating a fact, that area is not prohibited.
And calling out Lindsay's ignorance at calling boaties 'entitled' while they comply with the rules.
It is a personal choice if you acknowledge the rahui. Applying your own moral judgement to others personal choices is a slippery slope. Destiny Church and Drag Queen story-time is a good example of how things go bad when people try applying their own moral views on other's personal choices. Just saying.
I'll reword it. Why would anyone anchor there when............
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But why would you anchor there when you have been asked not to?
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1 hour ago, K4309 said:
The point there is it is so easy to identify and track a yacht these days, like with AIS and a free website or tracker app, that for the Barrier locals to say they've seen this superyacht and for there to be no enforcement is just a nonsense. Even if they don't have cell coverage over the back of the island, surely a telephone call to the authorities would be able to identify and track the one and only superyacht in the area at the time?
The Barrier Local Board chair is talking nonsense when asking 'how can we stop them?" All the ability to track and monitor them is already in place. Perhaps such a large and well resourced yacht already had permits from MPI and was well within it's rights to do what it did, hence why there was no enforcement actions despite the rabid locals being ignorant getting upset the presence of said superyacht.
Rabid locals?
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10 hours ago, SloopJohnB said:
Another organization going woke.
Excellent. Being woke is a good thing.
/woʊk/ aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality
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Never had a problem downwind. Usedca drogue in anything over about 40kn. Sailed through much more on occasion
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Just now, Zozza said:
Calling BP...think he went offshore in one years ago
A period that I still look back upon fondly. It could be argued that I spent most of 1975 to 1987 sailing offshore on a cav 32.
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For a cav 32, nothing. They are built like a brick shithouse.but it will be getting on a bit so a good look at rudder shaft, rig, sails, keel bolts, windows, through hulls bearings - all the usual sh*t. And get a good windvane.
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Don't need a jockey pole if you are poling out a headsail. By the time you need it the wind is far enough off the stern to sheet the headsail normally.
Pole length, longer is better till handling becomes awkward. Somewhere between J and 1.1 x J works.
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Insurance is a piece of paper to get you into marinas.
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Back of the Noisies?
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1 hour ago, Priscilla II said:
Only sometimes.
Despite the continuing popularity of the theory, essentially every prediction of the Big Bang theory has been increasingly contradicted by better and better data, as shown by many teams of researchers. The observations are, on the other hand, consistent with a non-expanding universe with no Big Bang.
Tell us who said this and when and what was being referenced.
Meanwhile
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10sec on Google
Are Hector's dolphins endangered?There has been a 74% overall Hector's dolphin decline and a 90% loss for Māui dolphin over just three generations. Hector's dolphins are now facing extinction.-
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55 minutes ago, K4309 said:
human construct based on opinion. Sure the death rate might be higher than the birth rate, then again it might not be (I haven't seen the peer reviewed scientific report), but at 15,000 these dolphins aren't at imminent risk of extinction. The Maui dolphin is clearly endangered and at imminent risk of extinction. Hectors aren't.
All pure speculation. If the population is decreasing ( as it has been for quite a while) we can say with a lot of certainty that mortality exceeds fertility and they are at risk of extinction, certainly endangered.
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1 hour ago, K4309 said:
That fairly much proves my point BP.
Scientists can describe gravity, and quantify it, but they can't explain it.
So, what causes gravity?
You're sounding like a religious zealot. Using that circular argument no one can explain anything. However science has given us a far greater understanding of many things than anything that came before. Science works
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Dark hull colour
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sh*t we have a black boat