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Maybe, but we don't know. Despite widely circulating details of the individual and their home (distinctive boat they live on) across the media, there's been no indication as to why they are looking for her. Perhaps it's overdue parking tickets? Or anchoring in a banned anchoring area. The point I'm making is that sometimes people just want to be left alone. And, there is a great irony. Assuming the authorities do have concerns for her mental health and wellbeing, the irony being that it is damn near impossible to access mental health services in this country. Particularly f

Unless you head east. When she was a he, she wanted to sail around the world, specifically to set a record for the longest time at sea, or the longest time circling the earth or something. That is why they build the boat in the first place. I think the goal was 3 continuous non stop, unsupported laps. It is plausible the govt is just trying to save her from herself, and she just wanted to go sailing. I suspect the biggest issue is perhaps she didn't arrange a new ICV or what ever CAT 1 is called now. And didn't clear customs (which you don't need to do if your voyage starts and ends

If your old one started 2nd pull, why did you replace it? and what did you do with it? (want to sell it?) In theory these little outboards are super easy to service. It could be something as simple as a gummy float in the carb. Where petrol has sat in it too long and gum / resins from the petrol have fouled parts of the carb related to supplying fuel. Especially with all this 'save the planet, stop climate change bio-fuel' in it, which adsorbs water and goes stale like a bastard. A gummy float can mean either the carb floods on starting, or the bowl drains so when you go to start it

It was lucky that ship was made from very durable materials. No Cardboard. No cardboard derivatives. And it met the minimum crewing requirement. One.

I'm suspecting it's nothing to do with caulerpa and the associated degradation of bait fish habitats and everything to do with those evil world destroying terrorist boaties. With so many interconnected aspects to an environment like the BoI, it is amazing how the evil boatie gets utterly everything pinned on them. No cruise ships. No high speed tourist boat operations. No commercial fishing. No agricultural run off. No La Nina summers Just evil boaties, minding their own business putting around at 6 knots...

The Herald you say? There is a reason trust in Mainstream Media is so low.

I'm sorry, but are you using a bad AI generated graphic to make a political point? You make it sound like a boat has actually sunk. It's a computer generated render FFS.

I've stripped coppercoat back, didn't look like that.

That is what I'm on about. The vast array of portable lithium type batteries we all have now, and largely forget about. AIA (or one of the large insurers) report a 17% increase in house fires last year. That is attributed to the greater numbers of portable lithium type batteries in use fairly much everywhere. Was in Milldale today and noted a brand new very large house that had fresh fire damage. Back of the house was clearly involved, two floors, deck, cladding, smoke damage everywhere I could see. Windows blown out with broken panes still hanging. And no, that wasn't the recent Mil

Absolutely Aa, a 3 year election cycle is entirely incompatible with long term infrastructure planning. The constant chopping and changing of the national land transport plan, hospital builds or even Cook Straight ferries illustrates that well. Now, to rapidly step away of the political aspects. People never think they might be part of the problem. It is always someone else, and normally some large organisation that is easy to blame. Ignoring the fact that those organisations are made up of (largely) hard working and dedicated individual. Example of "I'm not part of the problem"

How many people have smoke alarms on your boat? As IT wisely points out, there are many ways to start a fire in an electrical system, not just the battery. And who has no other portable electronic devices on the boat? No phones, laptops, air-buds, smart watches, vapes, stereo remote controls, party lights, battery banks, handheld VHF's, electric outboards? I think there is a real risk of fire on a boat, but it isn't from just one source. Consequently it is wise to plan for and assess the risk. Smoke alarm, well placed fire blankets, fire extinguishers, grab bag for a quick get-a

Yes, it is a shame that Matakana Oysters need to close. But, some would question the logic of trying to grow and sell filter feeders downstream from a major urban area. A bit like trying to run a tranquil monastery retreat on Quay St, then complaining there is too much noise and traffic. Asides from a failing wastewater system any urban area is going to produce large quantities of things filter feeders are going to suck up that are very bad for you. Road run-off for example. Including heavy metals from break pads. How much agricultural land is around and upstream of the Mahurangi now

On November 10 Piper (a tunnel-boring machine) completed the final leg of her journey to install a five-kilometre-long pipeline to transport wastewater from Warkworth to the Snells Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant. The new pipeline is part of a broader programme of work by Watercare to improve the performance of the local wastewater network and support growth in Warkworth, Snells Beach and Algies Bay. Watercare is investing over $300 million, which includes building a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant at Snells Beach. Watercare passes major milestone - OurAuckland

Well that is a fact free load of emotional ladeda. Doesn't even have a date on it. Is it from a decade ago? @Black Panther, is that a current thing or some sort of old posting? Watercare already have a multi-billion dollar project underway to sort it. It's been underway for 5 to 8 years, depending on which bit of physical works you say is the start of the project. Historically Rodney District Council had a wastewater treatment plant next to Robertsons yard. It was hopeless. The main issue is that Warkworth's poo pipes leak like a sieve, so every time it rains the WWTP gets inund

If you go stainless, I would line it with a flame proof lining / insulation. The sound proofing foam I've got for my engine is rated as flame proof. I took a blowtorch to it and still couldn't get it to catch. Forget the trade name now, but it was the good stuff from a specialist supplier, not the cheap stuff from Burnsco. About 25mm thick. You can get it without the alloy foil lining, which would be a hassle. Nice and soft cushioning too, which may help to reduce vibration damage to the batteries. Anyway, my point is you can build a good strong stainless box, and reduce the conducti

But it's what you do if you don't want to pay for a proper filtration system and appropriate drainage on the hardstand. Even with integrated vacuums, dry sanding toxic poisons is simply crazy.

If we could just add this to the emissions trading scheme, sell carbon credits to the US and Europe, we'd make squillions of dollars. Perhaps even enough to build a new hospital in Dunedin. Jokes aside, this is carbon sequestration at it's finest. Sometimes nature has it's own way of finding balance.

In addition to the other comments, I would say a multi day solo trip up an exposed coast with only 1 safe harbour is not really possible without self steering of some sort. If the boat is a very old style with long keel and can track straight, then it could be possible. A large factor in answering your question depends on what you haven't said. Are you intimately familiar with the boat and done several overnight or multi day solo trips? If so, then it is possible, but as Psyche noted, we are into late autumn / winter and the weather is going to become increasingly problematic. If the

I don't know, but I have had a long chat with a couple on the beach at Tindalls that this may have been. So noting it is just conjecture that this couple is the couple I spoke to. Short story is (the couple I spoke to) are "alternative lifestylers" and were living in a campervan. They had bought an old wooden launch and were excited about using that for boating and living on it. Possibly plywood, or at least wooden, as in not a modern plastic thing. Lets call it one of your typical end of life boats you find on moorings all around Auckland. It did not have insurance, they were keen for t

Noting you admit to knowing nothing, a good first step might be googling who Olivia Podmore was. If you aren't sure why these culture and integrity investigations are needed, that should school you up fairly fast. The short story is that the coach was shagging her team mate. Team mate went 'missing' one night at a world champs so Podmore raised the alarm, fearing for the personal safety of said team mate. Coach f**king athlete was then found out by team management, cover unwittingly blown by Podmore. Coach was a tad vindicitve and sorted it so that Podmore was de-selected for th

Ahh, that one. I've re-read that several times now. When I first read it at the start of Dec it looked like a forecast, esp the high confidence of higher than normal temperatures (started wearing winter shirts and woolen jerseys again last few days - which does not align with higher than normal temp). I re-read it last week and it now reads more like a horoscope. Completely indecipherable. Being horoscope style, I think there is a great risk of people inferring what they want to hear out of that I'd be keen to know if any forumites know of good medium term weather blogs or what

Where does it say that? is it a blog thing or some sort of medium term forecast? Keen for a link if you have it handy.

Metservice is a shambles. But they get their data from all the same global models. I use Predict Wind, with the paid subscription (standard). Gives access to 6 models. Four are standard international global models, forget the names (GFS, ECMWF, UKMO, which I think are North American, European and UK), and two Predict Wind models, which are based on two of the global models with PW enhancements. I put most weight on the two PW models, but PW show the forecast accuracy for all the models so you can go and see which ones have been most accurate over the last couple of weeks. It is not t

Who've you got as crew? If it's the missus and kids the forecasts are a different proposition to going with a couple of hard-arsed mates. That is on the basis of beating back from Barrier in a 25fter with 25 gusting 35 on the nose for 8 hours plus. Currently I wouldn't trust a forecast till it happens at the moment (for good weather that is). If several models are saying different things, all that is tell you is a low certainty of the the outcome. If all models say the same thing, there is a high certainty of what they say actually happening. But these current patterns are unseasonal

Serves you right for reading the Herald then, ay? What I posted earlier about the mainsheet was a quote from some guy at the CYA, but very surprisingly was via Stuffed. I know the journo's are all on holiday now, and judging by the grammar, MSM is being run by dyslexic 7 year olds, but I was very surprised to get some actual information via an MSM source. That said, the MSM are loving this, headline grabbing tragedy to add to the shark sightings, dramatic accounts of what the weather forecast is, or repeating Police news on a continuous loop.