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Do you think it's possible an overtight stuffing box could stall the engine? It's not something I've heard of.

On the celebrations, I think you are the wrong demographic Psyche. The Council gets right into the Pride Parade, Diwali and Matariki. Listening to the Auckland events guy last night, he said outright we got Coldplay at Eden Park because we lost Sail GP. Because we lost Sail GP they had the budget to bring in Coldplay. Not sure why us ratepayers are subsidising multi million dollar pop bands, but that is a different issue. The tank farm isn't ready because BP have to clean up all of the contaminated land before it can be handed over to Council. It is a legal minefield so I'm not at al

That sounds like a real can of worms. I've never heard of that happening, and I wouldn't want to be finding a suitable engineer to investigate that this close to Christmas. What sort of stuffing gland is it? Like the standard thing with flax stuffing (square fibre, like hemp with lots of grease) and you pump grease into it every time you've been out? Why do you think it is the stuffing gland that is stalling the engine? When was the last time you had a bum clean, and is the shaft, prop and cutless bearing free of barnacles and oysters? i.e. have you had a look underneath and con

For the uneducated but someone who sees repainting their cabin top in the near future, what are LPU's? Any brand names / where to procure them?

That is a fancy spinnaker pole for a Spencer. What is the fish attracting device out the back? Are you washing your mainsail cover?

Diesels need to run at the optimum design temp, no point running them colder. And I've got a lectric fridge so I can just run it off solar and not make lots of noise and fumes with said diesel. By explanation, took the kids to Rangitwotoes this weekend. We were checking out the old batches along the Issy Bay side that appear to be managed by DoC now. Proper old school. Shelves full of books (for reading). Board games. Card games. Shower was a canvas bucket with a shower head on it. Gas stoves. No wifi. No internet. You interact with people by talking to them, like to their face and everyt

What do you guys use all this hot water for? I've got a kettle. Goes on the stove. If we want instant hot water, we fill a thermos. If we want lots of hot water, we fill two thermos. Very handy if you want a cup of tea but can't be bothered turning the gas on etc. Always have hot water for washing the dishes. Zero faffing.

Jimmy at Cando Lifting is also experienced at getting boats off beaches. He got the Kathleen (34ft Van de Stad) off Stanmore Bay Beach August last year. He's recovered a number of boats previously. Also very handy at getting engines in or out of boats (he did mine and many many others), and things like masts. Based on Whangaparaoa and very good rates. He gave the owner of the Kathleen such a good rate he basically didn't charge him, noting his boat had just been written off, and the public service aspect of getting the wreck off the beach before it broke up and spread debri all across the

Have you considered more leafy greens?

Paradoxically, it is the other way round. Small diameters mean higher velocities which convey the solids out. If the diameter is too great you don't get sufficient velocity to move the solids, you just move the water. The solids accumulate and eventually block up. You need velocities greater than about 0.6 m/s to move solids. I've never worked out what the velocities are for a standard pump on marine heads, but I assume it can't be too far wrong cause the tend to work most of the time. Obviously there is a practical constraint with going too small. You couldn't use 15mm bute pipe for

I see the active ingredient is 80% Sodium Percarbonate. A quick google shows it available and loads of places, cleaning products supplies at $45 for 5 kg, home brewing supplies for $10.50 / kg. Burnsco have the Noflex, $60 for 475gm. I've been using BioMagic for my holding tank odours. Has similar claims as the Noflex. I can't find what the active ingredients are, but always assumed it is calcium nitrate, as it provides a preferential oxygen source for facultative bacteria. It's $60 for 5l, and I've only just started on a new bottle. It is effective at knocking back the holding tank

PS, I won a bottle of Salt Away and been wondering what to do with it. I don't actually understand what chemical it is or how it works. How would that go pouring a bit down the loo every time I leave the boat? I've been told in no uncertain terms not to use it on the outboard for flushing. Apparently it's corrosive to aluminium and leaves a coating(?)

Question, what do people do on the prevention front? I'm on a mooring so don't have direct access to fresh water to flush the whole system every time I leave the boat. I do put 4 cups of fresh water in so that the pump and seals are in fresh water and don't get calcified (which stuffs seals and makes the pump fail). White vinegar sounds very easy, and is cheaper than water fairly much. I do see a heat exchanger clean in my future, meaning I need to get some Rydelyme or Barnacle Buster, I wonder if a pre-emptive flush with one of those will prevent any future risk of blockages?

I don't recall the chemistry of your stuff in the waste pipe, but if you are desperate for a solution you could try a heat exchanger cleaner. They get the same sea-salt encrustations of heat exchangers in seconds to minutes. Barnacle Buster works very well. It is moon-beams expensive though. An alternative that is highly recommended by professionals (but I haven't tried) is Rydelime. I'm fairly sure the basic chemistry of the stuff in your waste pipes is the same as the stuff in heat exchangers. With the HE it forms quicker due to heat and evaporation. It is all marine salts (Chlorid

Anyone know any good Facebook pages to follow the race on? With a total of 10 posts on here under the Coastal thread, it's like the party is happening somewhere else...

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This SeaBnB has short and long term rentals. Could be a handy start Seabnb moorings and berths for rent

Just to clarify, you can swim at Mission Bay, and will be able to swim at Kohi and St Helliers in 40 mins (5pm), but is yacht racing (where you don't put your head underwater) still cancelled?

Central planning isn't needed for water reform. The main issue is access to finance. In general, the bigger the organisation the easier the access to finance (in the context of a butt-f*ck-nowhere Council and a large organisation like Wellington Water or Watercare. At the same time there are economies of scale, especially in technical knowledge and competence in large organisations. The best example of that is the roading manager looking after the water supplies in Havelock North. That Council wasn't big enough to have a technical specialist in charge of their well-heads. On the Orakei Tr

That is the best piece of PR spin to ever come out of a Council. QLDC have a policy NOT to have constructed overflows on their wastewater network. Every other Council in the Country have constructed overflows. A constructed overflow is a point where, when there is a problem with the network, you know exactly where your wastewater will spill. Once you know where your network will spill, you can monitor it so you know WHEN it is spilling. if you are really flash you can even work out how much it is spilling, and put inplace other mitigations to reduce the impact of a spill (normally gross s

I can answer that. Boys trip when we first got the boat, maybe 1999, well before holding tanks were a thing. Gorgeous crystal clear water, eastern Barrier. One of the boys wakes up and goes for a refreshing morning swim in the amazing water. One of the other boys wakes up and goes for his morning bowel movement. Screams of disgust and yelling as morning swimmer sees a plume of last nights curry emanating into the crystal clear water he is swimming in. Basically boats anchor in nice bays where people enjoy in-water activities. You need some separation between waste and in-water a

There is an assumption there isn't normally wastewater and other pollution entering the harbour. That isn't the case. The only difference with this one is it's being publicised.

Anyway, enough of the complicated maths and actual facts and stuff. There is a theory going around that the ban on racing is nothing to do with the blocked Orakei trunk sewer but is actually a ruse by Punuku to demonstrate that there is no need for yacht racing on the Harbour. It is a demonstration that the yachting community are a complaint group think bunch that are easily led and easily manipulated. Case in point the Landing Hardstand. Once Punuku have demonstrated there is no actual demand for yacht racing, and all the yacht racers have gone and taken up golf (or motor racing in

I had a go at calculating the volume of tide coming in and out of the Harbour each day. Width of harbour (North Head to Bastion Point) 0.8nm Average depth 15m (max depth 25m there but a lot of the channel is deep up to the edges). Average tidal stream of half a knot. Counting only 12 hrs / day of tidal stream (half in, half out) The daily volume of tide flushing the harbour in litres is therefore 2.47x10^11 Or, 2.47 times 10 to the power of 11. Basically it is so much water I can't count the zeros. If I've got my zero's right that is 250 billion litres per day.

It is not Parnell's poo. It is from West Auckland and the Central city. C'mon with the basic details guys. It is a trunk pipe, i.e. for transferring bulk wastewater from one half of the city to another half. If it were a branch line or a local line, then it would be Parnell's poo.