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Posts posted by Black Panther
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Increasing costs, Increasing bureaucracy ( its almost impossible to anchor in Florida now). And the character or the cruising fleet is very different now.
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Fact is you don't " need" anything. Everything else is optional.
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Again, anyone who has the desire to go offshore cruising, go now as the window is closing rapidly.
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Increased Cruising Permit Fees - Bahamas’ New Rules Take Effect July 1 - Southern Boating https://share.google/TCJcKPUxKN1EGz9tt
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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.
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Bought the outboard for peanuts on trade me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gulf harbour marina has more fish than goat island reserve.
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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.
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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.
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Bugger, we shared an anchorage a few years back. Hope she's OK.
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Is this missing in the police sense or just someone wanting to catch up.?
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Yes, but a lot easier with steering. Maybe a tiller pilot type as a temporary solution?
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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.
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Schnapper next
Anyone see the TV article on wrecks tonight?
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If 2% of that number need disposal in one year, that's 28 boats. 20k per boat is 560,000.