[Fridge rebuild]

Aha, a big silver box.

[Anyone see the TV article on wrecks tonight?]

If 2% of that number need disposal in one year, that's 28 boats. 20k per boat is 560,000.

[New fees to visit Bahamas]

Increasing costs, Increasing bureaucracy ( its almost impossible to anchor in Florida now). And the character or the cruising fleet is very different now.

[Ais for small yacht]

Fact is you don't  " need" anything. Everything else is optional. 

[New fees to visit Bahamas]

Again, anyone who has the desire to go offshore cruising,  go now as the window is closing rapidly. 

[New fees to visit Bahamas]

Increased Cruising Permit Fees - Bahamas’ New Rules Take Effect July 1 - Southern Boating https://share.google/TCJcKPUxKN1EGz9tt

[Neat Video Links]

 

[Bay of Islands Mammal Sanctuary rules]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/irish-whale-watching-company-ends-tours-on-south-atlantic-coast-and-blames-overfishing

[Two questions]

13 hours ago, mcp said:

Orca navigation app is simple and super easy to use. The charts look great. Syncs with all the devices you load it on. You can use it free in cell or WiFi range. For maps offshore and away from city verge there is a annual subscription. Bit worth it in my opinion. They sell some add on hardware which has some really useful features and makes the system very accurate with it's heading sensor. Works fine without.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Two questions]

Bought the outboard for peanuts on trade me.

[Two questions]

They lost me with the first paragraph 

 

OpenPlotter

 

Tool kit to be used as navigational aid in small and medium-length boats. It can be installed as a Raspberry OS disk image or by parts on your favourite Debian-based Linux distribution. We offer some Raspberry OS images with the most used applications installed and configured but you can also customize your image with the OpenPlotter À la Carte tool.

[Two questions]

1) for the mechanics.  I have replacement 4hp 4 stroke yamaha.  The old one always started on the second pull. This one on the 7th. Do I have to live with this.

 

2) my favorite chart plotter app (mx mariner) is no more. What would you replace it with. Preferably free. Preferably able to download nz charts, free. And easy to use.

[New marina in Bay Of Islands]

On 26/05/2025 at 1:03 PM, Psyche said:

Who uses the term sailboat in NZ? Ai content leaves clues, we seem to be heading into a place where online discussions will be between my Ai bot and yours lol!

I use sailboat all the time. I prefer it to yacht as it is more precise. 

[37th AC]

Suddenly your user name makes sense 

[sh*t in Mahurangi]

https://www.change.org/p/stop-watercare-auckland-council-from-polluting-the-mahurangi-harbour?recruiter=278217236&recruited_by_id=dc3f44a0-e3e4-11e4-9127-83271b37040e&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=native&fbclid=IwY2xjawKUm_VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE0bHExVlNQTlFhbDRDYlZRAR6pz6FWr3IO4lLz3ztjhmk61HdSWRQ2k2rwCj3RLi7_u6X8oYKKNoNtHJxfgg_aem_HraQBVWLDuw6yykuG3667Q

[Flexible solar panel recommendations?]

That's where I'm  heading.  The alternative is bigger , heavier,  and involves a lot more boatbuilding. Batteries are going too (agm) so similar decisions there.

[Flexible solar panel recommendations?]

On 26/11/2021 at 8:53 AM, Black Panther said:

I have 3x135watt from juice?. No problems at 3 years and counting. 

Now they're pretty much stuffed.

[Careful with that Silicone AntiFoul]

Gulf harbour marina has more fish than goat island reserve.

[Careful with that Silicone AntiFoul]

I'm 8 yrs into coppercoat.  Hauled out once. Clean about 4 times over summer. Initial finish about that of a rough paint job, but I believe I could do better. 

[Registration Offshore such as the Cook Islands]

I don't know anyone who has left yet. I was supposed to bring a boat back from Aus but the owner poked a dock through a hull so that's on hold.

[Missing.]

Bugger, we shared an anchorage a few years back.  Hope she's OK.

[Missing.]

Is this missing in the police sense or just someone  wanting to catch up.?

[37th AC]

So successful it's dieing. 

[Sailing up the west coast to BOI from Wellington]

Yes, but a lot easier with steering. Maybe a tiller pilot type as a temporary solution? 

[Minister closes inner Hauraki Gulf to fishing of rock lobster]

34 minutes ago, motorb said:

Private would take one short sighted set of management to run a stock to extinction before moving onto the next species. 

 

Plenty of existing examples of this to know it wouldn't work.

Read the history of the Grand Banks cod fishery. Depressing.