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Are you talking LiFePo house batteries, or the couple of dozen cell phone, laptop, drills, portable speakers, tooth brushes etc that all take all sorts of random Lithium batteries, have zero BMS and have dodgy as cheap chargers? When I had a good look into this, there was an article around I think by an AU insurance underwriters or insurance industry association. The risk of LiFePo was conflated (excuse the pun) with the very wide range of other common batteries we take onto the boat, leave on the charger, leave in the sun, drop, sit on or dunk in water.

So what you are saying is, marina berths in Auckland have gotten so expensive you can buy one and get a free house?

A mate is currently trying to give away a 12m Hobsonville berth for 'free'. Lease till 2035. All you have to do is pay this year's opex of $9,600....

So what actually happens when the leases expire? Do Punuku just bend you over and charge a monthly rental, price set by themselves? Or is there a process to renew leases or something? Like a game of musical chairs where everyone runs around trying to secure rights to a new marina berth, and some people are going to miss out? Noting I'm not in a marina, so the vagaries of marina leases and opex and what not are beyond me, but I am observing that the cost of berthing a boat is hugely prohibitive to owning a boat, and this is having a profound effect on the value of boats, particul

Goodhew told Maritime New Zealand it was so calm that the men were free to move around the boat and put fishing lines out. He said he expected to arrive at their destination around 8pm, called his friend at around 7.40pm and believed it was around 20 minutes after that phone call when the wave hit. Goodhew recalled it was getting dark and he was at the rear of the boat checking his client's lures and decided to give them another 15 minutes before calling it a day. Goodhew's recollection was almost cinematic as he described a colossal wall of water with no end in sight. "I l

Now we have lying prosecution witnesses. MNZ case is getting even more tenuous. Difficult to make this up. Just saying. A commercial fisherman sent to rescue ten men in the water after the Enchanter fishing charter capsized off Northland has admitted in court he was fishing in weather he'd earlier said was too dangerous to be out in. Maritime New Zealand's case is Enchanter's skipper should've known a front that smashed Northland overnight Saturday and early Sunday would have continued to impact sea conditions long after it'd passed. Text messages between the Florence N

As per my previous post. Note to clarify, I'm not making any ascertains as to where the capsize happened. I'm just pointing out that there are no facts as to where it happened, and the evidence MNZ is using to say it happened elsewhere from where the skipper said he was - is tenuous.

Crickey, have you read anything or are you ignorant? MNZ are inferring the position of the capsize from the location of the EPRIB activation, and saying that based on that, he wasn't where he said he was. Accept, the EPIRB was not activated for 45 minutes after the capsize. So where did the capsize happen? If the EPIRB drifted for 45minutes, what grounds have you got to say the capsize didn't happen where he said he was? I love it how people form opinions based on a couple of social media posts and then call for the guy to be hanged, when they clearly aren't across the issu

Yes, the whole debate, and infact the whole prosecution relies on establishing where he was at the time of the incident. We all understand that. That quote, "about as equally likely" in itself demonstrates high uncertainty as to exactly where he was when this happened. On the EPIRB drift, have you ever been to a surf beach? Muriwai for example? You can have tonnes of water pushing in at one spot, and literally 10m to one side, you can have a 3knt current ripping out. Most people on here should be able to understand rips. It is perfectly feasible for the incident to have occurred wher

We get back eddies in our river all the time. The tide will be bombing in, and at the same time there will be an outgoing current along one side. Given the complexities of wind, tide, current, swell and wave action, it is not possible for anyone to predict with any certainty a drift pattern with enough certainty to convict someone. Given that they couldn't find the missing people, nor actually find the wreck post rescue validates this. And on the missing people, this demonstrates dispersion modelling. As in, they all went in different directions. they spread out. So if the people and wrec

Peter "Shay" Ward, an experienced commercial fisherman from Te Awamutu, was one of eight friends who signed up for a five-day trip to the Three Kings Islands just over two years ago. Ward told the court he was sitting on the rear deck on the evening of 20 March, 2022, as the Enchanter was nearing its planned anchorage for the night below the North Cape lighthouse. At the time the wind was light, about 12-13 knots, and the swell about two metres, he said. The other passengers were relaxing in the cabin so they didn't see the wave coming. "I remember seeing that swell

Here is the TAIC Final report. Skippers route is shown on page 28. Couple of pages down is the EPIRB track. MO-2022-201 Charter fishing vessel, Enchanter, capsize, North Cape, New Zealand, 20 March 2022 (taic.org.nz)

TAIC states "about as likely as not" as in 50:50 the Enchanter strayed into shallow water. That is a highly uncertain statement as to exactly where the Enchater was. It is 50:50 the skipper had the boat where he said, in safe deep water, and it was an actual rogue wave that got it, not shallow water effect. Just like the Essence off BoI. 50:50 Isn't our justice system based on 'reasonable doubt'? Why it happened The Enchanter should easily have coped with the sea conditions off North Cape at the time of the accident. However, it is about as likely as not the vessel had str

Many of the points posted here are opinions. Having a difference of opinion is not a criminal matter. Generally the criminal test is gross negligence. The prosecution are saying he should not have been within 3 miles of land, but psyche has confirmed there is no rule regarding this. His ship was apparently in good order, and approved for the area it was operating in. He checked the forecast regularly, so not like he was sailing blind. The only paperwork he didn't have was an expired first aid certificate, not directly contributable to the incident. So it's not like he was tryin

Do you know if that integrates OK with a Nexus system?

My current mhu is wireless anyway, so I'm up for running a new wire regardless. Since the mhu packed up, I've been going old school and just estimating the wind strength based on the feel on my face and the state of the sea. Given I'm probably looking at $2k to replace the wind transducer, I might just continue with old school wind speed for a bit. The AP goes find on course heading. We have a powerful hydrualic ram on the back of our tiller steer (37fter), and that is the main thing for me at the moment. Noting I've not raced for a few years so the need for fancy lectronics is dimin

Are you saying they ran aground now? I can't keep up.

I've been looking at that GND10, it is that unit that makes the gWind integrate with the Nexus system. It comes with the wired gWind. Noting that the riggers warned me off putting another wireless unit on, and the retailer wont even sell them, saying they (the Garmin gWind) are complete sh*t, so if I proceed it will have to be a wired unit. Interestingly I've not had any issues with my Nexus Multi displays. Blowing the FETs on the AP course controller (the computer thingee tucked away in a locker) was due to malfunctions of the autopilot ram. On one occasion it decoupled from the tiller a

Would it be because the skipper didn't do anything wrong and Maritime NZ are just looking for a public hanging for PR purposes? Has anyone on here ever heard of this rule you can't go within 3 miles of land?

OK, serious question this time. I have a Nexus NX2 system, and my masthead wind transducer has shat itself (end of life, between 10-15 years old). The wired Garmin gWind is a straight swap for it. The rest of the system is still working fine (noting I've blown FETs in the AP controller twice, and installed an aftermarket circuit board fuse) If one other things shits itself on my nexus gear (long out of production) I may be compelled to do a full replacement, and probably with B&G gear. My current nexus system has a solid state compass. It is a while since I purchased it, but

Consumerism. Stuff you never knew you wanted, but now simply cannot do without. Oh, and you and exciting ways of spending boat dollars.

I am risk averse to furlers having a clusterfeck and what not. Furlers are great, but if they go wrong it is incredibly complicated to sort out.. To the point we took our headsail furler off so I can run hank on headsails. Short handed it is great. Nothing can go wrong. Just blow the halyard and get it on deck when you feel like it. Also means I have the right size sail for the conditions, rather than trying to get one head sail to work in out of range conditions. For the gennaker I am a real big fan of just blowing the tack. You need a 'blowing clip', like a witchard or talysika (spellin

I would say that is 1.5oz cloth. I've got one that does similar performance which is 1.5 oz cloth. Don't think I've got the balls to take it to 60deg true in 12 knots (and it's not cut that flat, my one) but it can certainly beam reach, tight reach and deep reach very well in the same windspeeds. We've even used it like a chicken-chute deep-off in 25 gusting 30 ish (didn't last long though, my boat is not designed to plane, and to do so is 'bad luck' for the gear). Mine looks very similar (accept mine is black), narrow shoulders, relatively high tack, luff length not a lot greater th

So the Board has completely missed the point (well, one of them at least) that the gas fitters do not know or understand the standard and are either approving substandard installations, or requiring significantly over the top installations. Classic governance board response, "nothing to see here, no problems at all, move along" But thanks for going to the effort IT.

I'll bet you a good bottle of whiskey it was at the Mokes first, it's come down on the East Auckland current from offshore, and it has spread from the Mokes to all points South. Noting it was found at the Barrier and the Mercs first, and first findings tend to be where there is higher foot-traffic, so to speak, as in people to actually find it. Noting it is naturally occurring in large parts of the Pacific and Australia. All you need is one of those La Nina years to set up the ocean currents and water temp, and hay presto - magic - killer algae. Nothing to do with yachts importing it