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2 hours ago, Jonquil said:
Pretty major road damage.
Knowing there's a body floating around in there somewhere can't be pleasant either
Mahurangi West Rd closed, so can't get to Sutherlands Bay.
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1 hour ago, ex Elly said:
The Kawau Race Week scheduled for this weekend has just been postponed by one week.
Will now be one race on Fri 30 Jan at 4pm, and 2 races on Sat 31.
However it now clashes with the Squadron Kawau weekend - doh!
Are they postponing due to the forecast? Or risk of flooding debris in the water?
Or to allow BoI race week boats to join in? They might be keen for some racing after the wash-out up there.
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2 hours ago, Frank said:
Right I'm off for a celebratory G and T or maybe two then a call to Norwoods to see if I can get the gaskets cheaper than at Volvo.
How about a celebratory bottle of Loctite?
Is that the sort of thing you put on those types of bolts?
Bet you are happy with that outcome though.
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9 minutes ago, Frank said:
DRUM ROLL PLEASE ............................!!!
Enough with the suspense already...
We've been waiting months, if not years for the latest installment of what is wrong with your engine.
PS, this is better than anything on Netflix at the moment
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New listing with new, lower pricing.
Get yourself a bargain and a humidity free good night's sleep all at the same time:
Portable Aircon - Ecoflow Wave 2 with Battery | Trade Me Motors
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3 hours ago, Frank said:
Watching the replay Its weird that NZ didn't anticipate the likelihood of the Swiss tacking, seems a basic error ....frustrating !
To quote Burling, Anticipation isn't mentioned in the rules.
That, and with 12 boats doing between 50 & 80 km/hr on a course measured in hundreds of meters (as in a very small and tight course), I think they have enough on keeping track of where the boats currently are, without trying to guess where they might go as well.
What is mentioned is boats changing course are obliged to give other boats room to keep clear (which clearly did not happen), and, the stand on vessel is required to hold a steady course (to allow the give way vessel a chance to keep clear).
The Swiss never sailed in a straight line post gybe, they had a substantial rate of turn, turning up into the Blackfoils.
It is beyound me how the Swiss aren't penalised. They did not avoid the collision. Noting that even the Umpires agree Burling has low culpability, as they reduced the season points penalty from -8 to -3.
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5 hours ago, Psyche said:
I rest my case!
There was a case?!?
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50 minutes ago, Psyche said:
The short version as stated in my previous post is that no one cares....
Cares about what?
No one cares about posts someone made last year?
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My commiserations for what you are about to experience.
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24 minutes ago, motorb said:
Does it duct the heat outside?
Yes.
You have a choice, sit the unit outside and duct the cool in, or sit the unit inside and duct the hot out.
You can duct the return air in or out as well, depending on which way you've got it set up. Like in a car, you can have fresh cool air in, or recycle the cool air in the cabin.
Easiest way to set it up on a boat is make up a spare washboard, or board to go over an open hatch, with a hole in it of the appropriate size for the duct. It also comes with a high density foam block that is easy to mount into windows (such as sliding windows, common on campervans but less so on boats) so it's easy as to bung the hot exhaust duct outside.
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PS, can offer a good deal to any crew.orgers who are feeling a bit hot and bothered right now
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20 minutes ago, Psyche said:
Call me old-fashioned, but we just jump off the back of the boat when it gets a bit warm.
In your jammies?
The key benefit of this isn't during the day when you are swimming or general boating, it's at night when it's hot and humid and you need some sleep.
Or for keeping pets cool, say on a day like today.
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Beat the heat, have a good night sleep. Get a portable aircon unit for your boat.
Comes with battery and can run and be recharged off 12v / 24v (needs battery to run off 12v / 24v)
Portable Aircon - Ecoflow Wave 2 with Battery | Trade Me Motors
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13 hours ago, Frank said:
but it's hard to imagine where the cyclic loading is coming from, perhaps the furler ?
Wouldn't the cyclic loading come from waves?
I'm not wanting to sounds like a smart arse, just very interested in this with respect to my own rig. Just common or garden variety sailing would set up cyclic loading wouldn't it? Wind energy on the sail, tacking (changing the force from one side to the other) and of course the boat moving through waves, with the resultant forces on the mast being counter-acted by the rigging.
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1 hour ago, Black Panther said:
I asked Angela if I should get another bottle of rum before departure. She said there was plenty. I wasn't sure so I decided to go through a few lockers and do a Stocktake.
18.
You mean to say that on a big boat you just loose stuff all the time, and if you had a smaller boat you'd know where everything was?!?
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So the winner didn't win and the boat 54 minutes back did win after not winning.
And in breaking news, a two handed boat won (both the one that did win then didn't win and the boat that didn't win but did win both had two hands)
Which is odd, cause last I heard they were complaining that boats that used autopilots had an unfair advantage over boats with 1 or 2 rugby teams onboard, and weren't eligible for the overall trophy.
I can see how the general public get confused by and give up on this archaic sport called yacht racing. Why is participation declining again?
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2 hours ago, Psyche said:
K, I appreciate you feel strongly about this but apart from there being a treaty between the indigenous peoples of NZ and the crown which is a nuanced, complex discussion well above and beyond talk radio resentment and outrage, the fact is that tangata whenua are a tiny minority on the water and there are rules they must follow as well. Resentful anecdotes about Maori enjoying their customary rights might be balanced out by having really good look around see which racial majority benefits most from NZ's democracy.
The cray ban is lip service, too little and too late. Barrier and the Kings are getting raped, it is well understood that crays were being overfished for decades and the "voluntary ban" by commercial is a joke- its just not economic . Speak to anyone who has dived for crays or scallops over the last 40 years, they all tell the same story which is remember the good old days. Seriously the fishery is a victim of greed plain and simple, the fishing industry has slowly but surely systematically strip mined our fishery. Recreational is/was also way too generous with limits but that take while not insignificant is still a fraction of commercial.
On your second paragraph, you are possibly misunderstanding my position. I agree with you whole heartedly on that. This ban is long overdue. I have never eaten a NZ crayfish, primarily for this reason. I don't want to be part of the collapse of the whole ecosystem, with respect to kina barrens and the wider impact of that on juvenile fish habitat.
But I'm not really following the point of your first paragraph. I do note that it appears politically incorrect to question any race based rules in large parts of our society today. I don't think that is healthy. Most people are just too scared to question race based rules for fear of various criticisms. Talk privately to people and their views are stronger / different. Sure it may be seen as inflammatory to use the term native. But the reality is that is who we are talking about. Conversely I get annoyed being referred to as a coloniser, and or being blamed for wrongs that happened 200 years ago. That said, I do feel it's important to share differences of opinion in a respectful manner, so my apologies if I was pushing the boundaries of being respectful with my previous post.
But one thing I would like to question you on is the assertion that the customary take is small (by implication from your comment that tangata whenua is a tiny minority on the water). My underlying issue with customary take isn't that it is customary take per se, but that we have no idea how much and of what size is being taken. Transparency. Or the lack of transparency. MPI have refused OIA requests on this matter. So we are just guessing how big the customary take is. As stated in my previous post I have anecdotal evidence that customary take is being abused, and in instances it is far from minor. Given also that 19% of the population identify as Maori, I wouldn't say that is a tiny minority. Granted that identify as Maori doesn't equate to tungate whenua directly.
But what we also know is there are existing problems with poaching and black market seafood. Where there is money to be made, laws get broken. There is zero transparency around the customary take, and to reinforce that, we already have examples of customary title holders who have been convicted of poaching over the last 10 years. Generally where there is smoke there is fire.
Now, the paradox here is I actively support Ngati Manahuri's proposed ban on intertidal gathering (the bucket people ban), and other thing such as the closure of the Whangateau Harbour to cockle picking. BUT, my strongly held view is that it should not be race based organisations making those calls, it should be organisations that represent our wider society (Councils or Govt). However, it is what it is based on our history and the 3 paragraph document from 200 years ago that dictates it all.
Anyway, the main point of my previous post was to highlight that it's not a total ban on crayfish, if you belong to the right hapu you can still go get what you want. I think it's important that people understand there are loopholes in all these fisheries protection measures.
PS, my position on this is largely driven by the same issues with the HPA's. Crayfish themselves are just one species, but the loopholes around HPA's make them fairly close to pointless (effectively the only people actually banned from HPA's are white men), double so when commercial can come and take all the food sources out of two of the HPA's, so the rest of the ecosystem suffers.
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22 hours ago, ex Elly said:
Govt orders 5-year crayfishing ban on North Island’s upper east coast
The Government has announced a sweeping ban on spiny rock lobster fishing along the upper east coast of the North Island, in a bid to rebuild depleted stocks and protect marine ecosystems.
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones confirmed today the “milestone” closure will take effect from April 1 next year and will remain in place for five years or until crayfish numbers recover sufficiently to allow fishing to resume.
Correction required to that.
It's not a ban for everyone, only white men. Same as the new white men only marine reserves (HPA's).
The natives are still allowed to take as much as they like, of whatever size they like, in berry, the whole lot.
And there is no way we can find out how much they are taking, while we all sit and watch. MPI wont release the customary take data, because, err, it's sensitive.
Don't get me wrong, the ban is long overdue. But it should be a total ban, not a race based ban.
And before the happy clappy's point out the natives are Kaitiaki, lets point to the authorised customary fisher from Gisborne who was poaching for 10 years in Tai Tokerau. I've had rellies on a Bert Monroe motorbike ride in Southland feasting on 'customary' taken seaford. Is just a feckin rort.
The te Matani Festival (spelling?) has a feast with customary take seafood. They feed something like 100,000 people with it. Really stretching the definition of customary when you are talking a large commercial scale cultural festival. I might have the exact numbers wrong, but it is in the several 10's of 1,000's. My point is this isn't small scale 'cottage industry' take, it's massive.
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Quickest way probably is to pull a handicap certificate from another Raven 31 on the YNZ website.
Find the same design boat, click on the certificate number which hyperlinks to the certificate. Has all the measurements on it.
Includes expired certificates to widen the chance of finding one.
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51 minutes ago, eruptn said:
Grand Final weekend, certainly not very exciting in light window short course…
It's not clear to me why you would wait 6 weeks to hold the grand final at a venue renowned for not having wind. Noting that 'next season' starts in 4 weeks time in Perth. I guess the sports-washing money outweighs logic and a good event.
The kids, especially Miss 12, has been super excited counting down to the final... almost fell asleep watching it. Brings back memories of the Americas Cup.
And the most exciting thing was damage to the Blackfoils rudder in a collision with the Swiss, accept we didn't see it, there weren't any replays and it didn't appear to impact any results or standings (accept for the Swiss who got docked 8 points for causing damage).
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2 hours ago, Zozza said:
The biggest bomb threat on a boat in my opinion is not batteries or electrical systems gone wrong, but are gas cookers because idiots don't know what they are doing to safely install a gas cooker on their boat. As I am an idiot, I stay away from gas cookers, and use alcohol cookers - which yes, can still cause idiots to start a fire but generally are way safer than gas.
I would counter that overheating electrical wires are the most likely way to start a fire on a boat. They certainly account for 80% of the near misses on boats regards fires. There is no shortage of guys with stories about smelling something odd and / or finding a melted wire casing while investigating some other issue on a boat. (switches and plugs included).
But in saying that, it's not clear how yet another standard will mitigate that risk. All you need to do is make sure you put in big enough wires and / or don't overload the existing systems with new devices and gizmos. That knowledge (how to size a wire for resistance, voltage drop and load) has been around since not long after DC electricity was invented.
The only other thing to do is keep an eye on the state of connections etc, regard corrosion or old age failure. Again, the primary approach is to use tinned wire (which has been around since Jesus was a baby), and to carry out basic maintenance checks. The irony being that an overly prescriptive standard may increase danger because it may become too onerous to fix or replace existing electrical installations.
Gas stoves and appliances have a high perceived risk, but the reality is the number of accidents and issues are actually very, very low. Granted the exception is people using those portable space heaters in the saloon, etc.
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9 hours ago, CarpeDiem said:
Thank you for clarifying that “no anchoring” doesn’t apply if you’re in an emergency. I’m sure the entire boating community was waiting for that revelation and incredible insight.
Next you’ll be telling us that “no stopping” signs on the motorway don’t apply when your car catches fire.
The “unless you can’t safely make an alternative anchorage” line is literally the same safety clause on every no-anchoring area in New Zealand and everywhere else on the planet. It’s not a loophole, it’s just the bit of common sense that stops people from sinking.
Red means no anchoring. Explaining the emergency exception on a boating forum is like explaining that water is wet.
Glad I could be of assistance.
Wouldn't want some newbie quietly sink his boat and drowning (or just getting into a whole world of sh*t with cascading problems) for fear of breaching some nonsense biosecurity rule.
Like I said, it's important to understand what the rules actually say, and they say you can anchor in red areas under certain circumstances. My main point is judging when those circumstances apply is the sole responsibility of the skipper of your vessel.
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For @CarpeDiem and anyone else who may not actually understand the rules:
Refer to pages 9 and 10 of the CAN for Gt Barrier
Anchoring in emergencies
No person may anchor craft (such as boats) within an exotic caulerpa high-risk-zone unless they have been granted a permit. A permit is not required in the following situations:
1) In the event of an emergency that:
c) no other alternative safe sheltering locations or mooring can be easily acquired.
Noting that the skipper has sole responsibility for the safety of the boat, it is up to the skipper what constitutes an emergency and whether or not they can make an alternative anchorage safely.
I've had a hell of a lot of diesel bug this season, having to stop and clean the filters all the time. Just saying.
Controlled Area Notice: Exotic Caulerpa - Aotea Great Barrier Island
Public/Club moorings Auckland north?
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Are you talking about while you are on the boat, or leaving the boat unattended from time to time?
My understandings is that there are moorings in the sounds cause a lot of the bays have poor bottoms and geography for anchoring in. That isn't such an issue for NI east coast. The vast majority of places have good holding in reasonable (shallow) depths.
That, and for leaving the boat, there are basically marinas everywhere for parking in if you want to leave the boat unattended for a few days or more - noting that the marinas are criminally expensive now.
There are plenty of moorings spread around the place but are primarily private. If you google 'mooring BnB' there are various platforms to arrange short or long term rentals (I've not used any, there was one that was called something like mooring BnB, I think it went bust, but a google shows there are other similar platforms).