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Sounds like you don't trust the govt with statements like that IT. Surely AT would use accurate numbers? I would be interested in the data / numbers from the presentation. There will be a lot more development and densification in the area than just the ones you mention. And Whanga Rd will only get more congested. I wonder if this is more to do with a squable between AT and Fullers over the Waiheke service and some internal leverage? AT certainly look like they are working an angle, rather than putting up a straight question for consultation.

Proposing electric buses going every 7.5 minutes (peak) or 15 min off peak. New bus station in Whangarapaoa. Cheaper service $7.18 compared to $11.60 Services start earlier and stop later in the day. So you can go for dinner or a gig and still use PT to get home. Imagine. For CBD trips the travel time would be 60 min about 10 min longer than the ferry. Far better connectivity to North Shore destinations, while the ferry is CBD only. Gulf Harbour ferry services could be replaced by electric buses from 2028 | Stuff.co.nz

First google says the travel time will reduce by 20 min, not 10 (peak time). And you are assuming Gulf Harbour buses will go via the Silverdale interchange. I'd very much hope that after dropping $800mil on a bridge, someone would have the foresight to reconfigure the bus routes to actually use it. Penlink was never approved to reduce travel time on the coast. It was solely to allow the Milldale Development to proceed, along with the yet to be announced "Silverdale West" developments on the Western side of the motorway between the Silverdale interchange and the BP. This was all zoned

So when was the last time you used the ferry?

So if you can get from the Marina to the city by bus faster, cheaper and more reliably than the ferry, why are you guys getting upset? Don't you want fast, reliable and cheap public transport? or do you want a ferry? The glaring PR in that email Zozza got is the CURRENT travel time by road, not the travel time with an $800million new motorway that cuts half the distance and increases road capacity by 200%.

We replaced an old Izuzu 3 cylinder with a Beta 35. Love it. As for Beta Marine (UK), they can do bespoke engine brackets, but to quote our local supplier, The Engine Room, they cost so much it is not worth it. We needed some minor modifications to our engine bed. Being timber, you can pack it out with some more timber, pack it up, or possibly cut it down (not recommended). We used some good pieces of wood (kauri I think, an NZ hard wood) and glued and screwed it. Glue being 2 pot epoxy. The technical drawings for the Beta engines are very good. You just need a tape measure and crawl

This could do with its own thread. How do you get the data up on that screen? are you using the victron operating system and what is this cerbo device? As mentioned, I've just graduated from using a volt meter to using a very simply and cheap battery monitor. As per the comments, a this tech and capability is clearly way over the head of a number of users around here. Some 'beginner 101' explanation would be really handy.

I've been wondering this for a long time, how wide spread it already is. You have to remember how this was 'discovered'. A complete biology geek with over 6,000 posts to iNature posted photos of it at Bland Bay, which lead to it being recognised by Niwa boffins in their time off. But the Barrier locals reckon it was there for a good 5 years already. At the same time, no one can work out why we are getting the milky soft fleshed snapper. It supposed to be muscle atrophy. Perhaps the caulerpa is already covering the worm beds the snapper feed on and it is already everywhere? It grows at dep

So are your batteries charged now? I've used a $30 volt meter for the last 20 yrs, and just graduate to a Junktek battery monitor for the house batts, cost about $80.

From a story about NZL14 in Queenstown. If Mike Parker has all the gear to refit NZL 14, I'm a bit surprised he tried using a 15mm mooring line on NZL 20. May as well have used fishing braid. Entirely inappropriate mooring line, and this who palava could have been easily avoided with bit of 30mm line and proper chafe gaurding. The bit on the bowsprit the line goes over appears to have good anti-skid on it, i.e. the best sandpaper you can get. Auckland yachtie Mike Parker, who tells Scene he recently purchased another America’s Cup boat, NZL20, also known as Black Magic, says t

Third hand report via facebook it was refloated last night.

The owner is a surfer, not a sailor (his words). You can tell by the light line he used to moor this piece of sh*t. Anyway, the story is he wants to use it for surfing safari's, to drop surfers off just outside the break. He said yesterday that, if it had not broken it's piece of ridiculously light mooring line (my words) he was going to take it back around to Gulf Harbour today to install a new engine. There is a whole bunch of questions around this. I've no idea what it's stability would be like sans keel and mast. Esp in any sort of sea way. It wasn't antifouled, and never had been. Ev

Is it a Club, or some sort of high return hospitality investment?

I'm staying out of this for now. As of 5:30pm the owner was down there with two others, using a jetski and a small plastic dinghy with a 2hp. So I doubt I could add very much with my inflatable and 2 hp. Last I spoke to him he had trash pumps and a generator too. There is zero wave action and only a moderate wind. I'd say the boat drifted ashore rather than being driven ashore by waves, so I'd like to think it wont be too complicated to get off. Not sure if the jetski will cut it, but full credit for trying. The back story is growing increasingly interesting. Third hand account that the o

It is normal in that they have to give the owner an opportunity to sort it out themselves. All the HM does is contract the salvage company, then send the owner the bill. It starts at $10k for the simplest job, and would typically be maybe $30k, not counting disposal...

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OK, no jokes now. I've been down there and spoken to the owner, who is f**king hopeless. He is a surfer, not a sailor (his words), and hasn't got a clue. Who is local and wants to help get this off the rocks before it smashes up and we have 10 million carbon fibre splinters washing around our marine environment? High tide is 7pm tonight. I can get two good anchors, chain and a hundred or so meters of rod, my 3m inflatable and a 2hp outboard. I'm also perfectly happy to swim around in the dark, have dive torches and appropriate wetsuit. Anyone got a RIB or dinghy with bigger

That really f**ks me off. Its only been there 5 minutes. I was out fishing off Army Bay when they towed it around, maybe only 1 month ago? Sure it was there on Saturday. And its not like we had a descent NE storm or any swell. What did they moor it with? Fishing braid? That is just incompetent to moor a boat and have it bust off within 5 minutes, and without a descent storm. Edit: 14th June it was towed around there. Its the 17th July today. 32 days it lasted on the mooring. And we haven't had a NE blow yet. Who can spell 'insurance job?'

Yes. You will need a dredge about the size of the Mangere treatment plant to make it work without spreading more of it around in the discharge water. That said, if this thing does go feral, its main problem is smothering everything. A suction dredge would be ideal to remove it from the sea-floor, allowing all the snails, crabs and worms etc to get going, and the associated fish to feed off them etc. If there is already wide-spread infestation of the caulerpa, manually removing it by suction dredge would mitigate the smoothering impact of it, keeping our marine biodiversity going. All

I love how they've known about it for 2 years, AND are taking immediate action.... Bringing some guys over from LA next month to give them tips on suction dredging. Shame they didn't get organised waaayyyy back when it was first found at Barrier. If I thought banning anchoring and fishing made any difference, I would support the bans. I don't have a remote anchor winch, so naturally give my anchor and chain a full visual check every time I bring it up. And it is beyond me how fishing can be a problem. Other than all the techniques that don't touch the bottom (trolling, topwater spinn

Just curious BP, when was the last time you took the GH ferry? I haven't taken it in living memory, but I've just worked out that if I get one of those HOP cards, I can take the kids for free, and we get free entry into the Maritime Museum, so an ideal school holiday excursion all funded by the rate payer. Now all I have to do is find the one retailer that does HOP cards up here.

What is the dodgy attachment for, and are you trying to infect my device?

I am fairly concerned for the people that bought a house they could afford in Hamilton that already worked in Auckland, or live in Hamilton and took a job in Auckland on the basis that there was a scheduled commuter service. That said, if there are fast commuter trains from Papakura, why does Te Huia need to go into the city? I understand there is already track capacity issues? My suspicion (you can call it a conspiracy theory if you like) is that coordinating the various train schedules into Auckland is too complicated, and this is a good excuse to stop Te Huia at Papakura, transfer

Spain? You mean Jeddah, for the Jamal Kashoggi memorial regatta. There is more money in greenwashing tyrannical dictatorships and legitimitising their war on the piss-poor goat-herder neighbours than there is racing boats y'know. But I wouldn't think anything Dalton does would influence land development. That area has been prime for development for some time. I am very surprised nothing has been announced for the land at Sailor's Corner. Was sad when Smart Marine closed and moved, but just can't get the revenue from medium format retail in an old shed that you can from multi-level develop