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Do you want to sail it to Argentina or Arkles Bay?
As in, Cat 1 or Gulf Cruising. Will make a difference to how diligent you (or anyone giving advice) need to be, and consequently how robust the design work and physical work needs to be.
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Sounds like you are not alone FLC, Penlink has been hit, as well as other boats.
And I might have to eat my words to Psych. Why would anyone nick a mainsail?!? Generators, diesel, power tools and fishing rods are all useful and easy things to move on, but a mainsail?
There has been reports of substantial thefts from boats and the Penlink platform.
From Penlink; 200l diesel, generators, power tools.
From boats: Fuel, mainsail, fishing rods.
This all seems to be happening upriver of the dinghy pontoon. We believe by someone in a sizeable tinnie.
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Was speaking to a guy on the wharf at the river a couple of weeks ago that had cameras on his boat. They were on the spreaders. AliExpress jobbies. Solar powered I think, can't remember if they were SMS linked, but fairly sure they bluetooth to a device / phone for easy download. He was happy with them. Affordable and effective by all accounts.
He put them on the spreaders so the couldn't be nicked as well
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Anyone wanting some cash for me to use your berth in Westhaven for a weekend in Jan? The Sail GP weekend - so anyone with good taste will probably want to leave town anyway
12m, or bigger (we are 11.3m)
Westhaven have plenty available apparently, but want $50/day (I'm wanting 4 days =$200) so I figure it would be nice to cut Punuku out of the loop and contribute directly someone's boat maintenance fund.
Ideally I was wanting to come in on Thursday 16th Jan and leave on Monday 20th, so as to not be constrained by the Harbour Wide and Westhaven entrance closures that are happening on the Fri, Sat & Sunday of that weekend.
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Those alloy scuba tanks last forever.
I got one second hand maybe 25 years ago, took it for a test and fill last year and it was perfectly fine. Very little issues with them.
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1 hour ago, funlovincriminal said:
As an aside, the only reason I discovered the theft is because my neighbour had rearranged my pushpit and BBQ for the second time this year so I was on board trying to straighten that mess out. In all honesty that annoys me more than the theft!
Your neighbour must be a bit special, how did he manage that?!?
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34 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
As liveaboard I've never caught a thief, but i have towed several boats up the river, rescued a boat when the pile actually broke, secured countless sails and canvas covers and pulled lots of debris and plastic out of the river.
I bet you've scared a few thieves though. Probably without even knowing it.
You probably left them traumatised and needing therapy.
After all you do have a habit of putting that photo of you in drag and fishnet tights on the interweb.
Jokes aside though, I think just by you and the other live-aboards having a presence on the river helps greatly. Without naming names, the live aboard that parks beside us has said he's spotlighted / challenged delinquents after dark. Doesn't happen often, but when things do happen, there are eyes and ears about.
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8 hours ago, Psyche said:
What's worse is that you it know its most likely another boatie, who else has would bother for a small ticket item?
I wouldn't assume that. I'd argue you are applying too much logic as to why people nick sh*t. I think a lot of it isn't logical. Either on drugs, opportunist, boredom or shits and giggles. Sure there will be examples of people thieving items for their financial value or specific purpose, but I wouldn't think that is boaties nicking sh*t to use on their own boats. I'd assume that is stuff easily moved on for a bit of cash. A lot of the examples of theft from the river I've heard of is stuff that is easy to move. Especially tools, as in FLC's case. Fishing gear and outboards are also up there. All easy to move (sell) with a wide second hand market. And dinghies.
A launch was stolen from the river several years ago. That wasn't boaties, that was some toe-rags wanting a free ride 'home' to Gt Barrier. That was the one where they put petrol in it (diesel engine), engine ran away, caught fire and sunk midway to the Barrier. Nearby fisho came and rescued them, couldn't understand why the guy was trying to swim off a burning boat with a really nice spanner set...
The point with that example was the guys weren't boaties (hence why the put petrol in a diesel engine) and wanted the nice spanner set, it is the sort of thing that is easy to trade for cash or drugs, and isn't traceable.
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37 minutes ago, LBD said:
Thanks for the replies guys... I have been pondering this problem and also how to manage the aesthetics on a somewhat classic timber boat.
Thinking I will go with a below deck hydraulic cylinder acting on a bell crank arrangement with a shaft through the deck then an arm and link to the tiller.
The cylinder will have a simple bypass solenoid valve ... putting pilot in standby or turn off, opens the valve and hand steer away.... maybe.
I've done something similar to this. 40 yr old kauri log, tiller steering.
Have an under deck hydraulic pump (Octopus) running a ram in the lazerette. We have a short steel arm coming off the back of the tiller to rudder stock block (into a slot into the lazerette). The ram is in a sealed box in the lazerette.
When the AP is off steering is basically unimpeded. It is a tad heavier than when the hydraulic ram is not connected to the tiller, but is perfectly manageable, noting it is super light in the first place.
This gives us the ability to have a powerful and reliable hydraulic autopilot on our tiller steered 37 fter, without the previous arrangement of an electrically actuated tiller ram above deck that needed to be manually connected to the tiller every time we went to use it, and was exposed to the elements, a bit underpowered and overall a fairly hopeless set up (no rudder angle feedback, so very slow and random course response).
Our electronics package is Nexus, but I don't think that influences the hydraulic ram or pump, which were octopus brand. I think they are a generic aftermarket gear that half the other AP packs put their label on anyway. The ram has a rudder angle sensor attached, which is the key info the course computer needs to make the rest of it work properly (along with 9 axis solid state compass and other such heading / wind inputs).
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Thanks for the heads up. Hope you find your stuff, or some karma sorts out the perpetrators.
The river has been trouble free for a while now, so a shame to hear it has changed. There is always a bit of ebb and flow (excuse the pun).
I know of two live aboards who aren't on the river currently, one who moved off permanently, and one who is on the hard currently doing maintenance. I know the one on the hard has on occasion spotlighted and challenged delinquents in the middle of the night pocking around moored boats in borrowed dinghies. I know there is mixed views about live aboards, but they certainly provide a benefit in having a presence on and eyes on the river.
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1 hour ago, khayyam said:
Which is a disadvantage.
How?
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Think I have a P class rudder going spare.
Also have a rudder off an orphan boat that is probably very similar to a Starling. Are you wanting it for a Starling or cause you think a Starling rudder is about the right size and shape?
Both are wooden, the orphan rudder is varnished, with a painted stock and bare wood tiller (possibly teak).
Free to a good home, if you are interested.
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You should find out what the Manawanui were using and get the other one.
Word is there was no mechanical failure and just pranged it into the reef. Sounds very much like a GPS assisted grounding.
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2 hours ago, waikiore said:
Another challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron , now who will pay the 'hosting fee' Middle East likely or UK?
Last I heard the UK is broke.
Even the legendary Fastnet race now finishes in France cause Plymouth couldn't afford to host it. As in British yacht clubs with 'Royal' monikers hosting events in France cause of financial realities.
I'm sure the Saudi's will have no problem funding an event at Jeddah for some more sports washing, but that brings some substantial moral questions into play. Ignoring the fact that region is highly likely to be in all out war by the time they get around to settling on a venue.
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4 hours ago, LBD said:
I skippered a tug for BHP for a number of years with twin Ulstein asimuthing drives... super manouverable even without a bow thruster.
I have a gut feeling this will come down to a maintenance failure as has been so prevelent in many such cases in NZ in recent years.
That would be even more embarrassing, the guy with all the gold braid and fancy dress (can't remember his official title, something like supreme rear commodore sea lord) said that Manawanui had just completed a 'maintenance period' before this deployment, AND passed all of their testing before being signed off...
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3 hours ago, Psyche said:
Here they are using their state of the art equipment just before impact
They were still using lead lines on the last survey boat. They even make one of the ratings taste the mud. Apparently silt tastes more bitter than sand or regular mud.
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5 minutes ago, Priscilla II said:
Well it most certainly “ found a submerged object”so that part of the mission was a success.
I note that the crew muster was 75 but the bunk capacity was 66 so some crew must have been on watch.
not sure if percussion hydrography was in the design spec's...
They stated they 'evacuated 75 crew and passengers'. Didn't realise NZ defense assets took passengers. Saturday night, more people onboard than bunks, carrying passengers, yet they say they were working.
Several things don't add up.
Core crew is 30 something. Not 75.
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4 minutes ago, Priscilla II said:
“Missions that the ship enables include coastal and harbour survey, underwater explosive disposal, underwater search and recovery, and limited mine countermeasures,” the NZDF said. The ship supported Navy operations “across the maritime domain”.
“The ship can survey harbours and approaches prior to larger support ships landing support equipment and personnel, whether for combat or disaster relief. It can support the ongoing mission to eradicate explosive remnants of war in the South Pacific.
“And it can undertake salvage operations to find and recover submerged objects.”😀
Think you need to go through your post and change the present tense for the past tense
'Can' should now be 'Could' or 'Did'
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1 hour ago, Psyche said:
Great vantage sport at stokes reserve, think they'll block public access?
Just had a suss on Streetview, and it appears the view is already locked by trees. Same trees you can see in the aerial photo.
Happy to be proven wrong though.
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Wonder how they'll make that work if its a northerly?
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1 minute ago, CarpeDiem said:
there is no link. it's an image...?
Oh dear, my computer is definitely saying 'no' then.
Just a long two lines of text that looks like a broken url.
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2 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:
Westhave Berth holders got an email with this in it:
The link isn't working for me.
Is it a map of the exclusion zone?
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The BYOB was for 2 days, where as the grandstand is for 1 day.
Would have been $628 BYOB for the family, $750 to take the family for one day. Kids are more interested in watching it on TV and me putting that cash into their bank accounts... Especially since they are getting their heads around compounding interest.
Disappointed the sub 49fter sold out so fast. Logged on about 3pm and it was gone (once I worked out how to get the website to go).
Anyone know if / how you can watch the practice day? We are keen to see these boats in person doing their stuff, doesn't have to be racing, in that the coverage is better on TV for watching the racing, but be great for the kids to see these things on the water.
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3 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
I've never understood the word presale. Makes no sense.
It is a way of gaging interest, so they can work out how much to rheem you for on the pricing...
Registration Offshore such as the Cook Islands
in MarineTalk
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I understand there are only 3 'assessors' nationally. (not inspectors anymore, apparently).