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Black Panther

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  1. No. Taking scout trips in Vanuatu. So Vanuatu govt insist on local registry. Sorry. I'm typing from a phone and the messages become abbreviated and poorly written.
  2. Bp was built in nz but was registered in Vanuatu. Nothing dodgy. Previous owner used to take group's of boy scouts sailing for a minimal fee. Got decided that was chartering so he registered to be legal.
  3. Nope, that's how it happened - too much lying down
  4. Our first daughter was conceived in one!!!!!!
  5. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/video.cfm?c_id=5&gal_cid=5&gallery_id=151676
  6. Today I skipped work for a bit and had IT show me all the latest and greatest and discuss what would be suitable for BP. If like me you are out of touch with all this stuff it is quite an eye opener. Anyway we talked about the possibility of getting a room at one of the YC's and having him do a bit of show and tell and a Q&A session. Excellent idea I thought. So how much interest would there be for such an evening???
  7. This appears pretty moronic to me. the reason I never had any radio for the first 10 years I was cruising was idiotic bureaucratic infighting (over SSB at the time). You are right, a phone looks a good option after reading that.
  8. TL We make the final payment on the boat this October. The plan, subject to revision at any time: 2015 Xmas holiday 2106 Keep the boat at Hobbs Wharf probably till about Easter for greater use and do a few things I want to do to her. Depart around August for a 3 month sabbatical/shakedown, either Fiji or Noumea, or both, or somewhere else. Return Novemberish. 2017 Sell house and move aboard . Attend to any issues that pop up from the shakedown. Be ready to leave to go warm by May (the race to Vavau could be a go but not if they expect me to try and go too fast - I'm a cruiser). Get bac
  9. After that course i decided I still prefer my old Henri Lloyd jacket. It has built in buoyancy (but is not a PFD ) and a built in harness. I can swim in it and it will keep me afloat. Of course I now have to carry some extra stuff I don't use because I don't meet the rules.
  10. So, since the harness function is so much more important lets call them harnesses with the other function included. I used an inflatable one in the wave pool in that "how to be rescued" course, my over riding memory is that it was bloody uncomfortable, ten times more so than the old vest thing I used to wear racing dinghies a couple of centuries ago. And it was nearly impossible to propel yourself wearing it. I guess it means you lie passively and hope like hell to get rescued.
  11. I've always considered a harness way more important than a PFD/lifejacket.
  12. Don't wait too long Booboo, our baby was only 1 when we left last time
  13. I'm just curious here. How many of our crew ogres think that a period of long distance cruising lies somewhere in their future? Soon , very soon, or someday? Just up to the islands or far, far away? For a few years or forever? or till the money runs out? Current boat or something else?
  14. Trying not to give offence: Years ago I got my first boat to Cat 1. It was a significant expense. I only got top quality gear. A lot of it was dead after two years. I have already mentioned the medical kit. Flares also bug me. they are expensive and have way too short a shelf life. At a certain New Year's party around the end of last century (that included stealing a submarine) We fired off a bunch of expired flares - every last one of them worked just fine. I never used to carry a radio. The new boat came with a VHF, I'd probably carry a satphone now. I don't know if that meets the rules
  15. Agree, Humans succeeded because they learned to cooperate, not because they were faster, stronger or had bigger teeth.
  16. What ever happened to these guys? Their blog page is gone, I was wondering what route they took to get home?
  17. But it is biology , not physics. Read up on swarms and population blooms, quite common and well understood, and it may give an inkling of where we are headed.
  18. I spoke to a NZ inspector and was seriously underwhelmed. Or, in the vernacular, he was a narrow minded dipstick. I have hasd a good friend who has been a pharmacist for 30 years put together a med kit for a fraction of the price of the "standard" one. Some other things they insist on I am unconcerned about or simply don't want. Cat 1 itself doesn't last long enough, a lot of the equipment expires way too early. I have said document regarding GST.
  19. No , I was talking about Langkawi.
  20. Excellent advice, otherwise known as the gross tonnage rule.
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