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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%.
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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 around your existing engine to see what the current setup is. The big point to note is not just the engine mount height and width's, but the geometry to the output flange on the gearbox. The particular model of gearbox you select can have the shaft alignment height different to your existing.
They say to measure twice, cut once. In my case I measured 15 or 16 times, got someone else to measure it, measured it myself again on a different day, then drew up a scale drawing (pen, paper and ruler) etc, to ensure it was all correct. That was before ordering the engine, to make sure we'd covered everything off.
There is a lot of logic in what alibaba says in making up a timber jig. Personally I expect the process of making the jig will force you to confirm all your measurements correctly. That all said, the engines you are talking off are light. You can shift them around very easily with a pinch bar (various length metal strong bars) and plenty of blocks of wood. So it may be just as easy to pull your old engine out, slide your new engine in and have a look.
What I would highly recommend is a flexible prop shaft coupling. This dramatically simplifies your final shaft alignment. You can get the full flexible drive / universal joint thing, but they are expensive, need length, need maintenance and need a thrust bearing. I used one with a rubber element that bolts to the GB output flange and clamps over the shaft end. No special tooling or work needed. I'll see if I can find the name and link.
Don't forget, if you are doing the engine, you may well end up doing the packing gland / shaft seal, and possibly the shaft as well, if its been 'necked'.
Also, Beta have a very good range of alterative exhaust manifolds. Cross over's, high risers, low risers etc. This dramatically simplifies lining up the existing exhaust system with the new engine.
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23 hours ago, Screwball said:
I'm in the process of slowly sorting out the electrical system of our Carpenter 29. We had a couple of cheap AliExpress shunts with LCD displays for battery monitoring but their accuracy was questionable at best, esp for amp draw. We already had a victron mppt solar controller and a small Phoenix inverter so decided to stay with the victron ecosystem and fit a smart shunt to monitor starter and aux batteries. After doing some research I found you can run Victron's Venus OS (what their Cerbo system monitoring unit runs) on a raspberry pi. So loaded that onto a spare board I had, added a 7 inch waveshare screen and hooked everything up using ttl/USB converters. Does take some trial and error in Python but you can also roll your own GUIs, which I did since I find the standard one is a bit cluttered with data I don't need. Works great and very happy with it. Only thing I would say is that if you do plan to use all the hardware of the Cerbo (relays, resistive tank sender pickups etc) the Cerbo may be more cost effective. Next addition will be to add a canbus board so it can be hooked into the NMEA bus as well.
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.
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30 minutes ago, waikiore said:
Laughable -when those that know how wide spread it is already will ignore it , and the rest in blissful ignorance will ignore it too.
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 depths the average snorkeller isn't going to get to.
Odd thing is the fisho's aren't hauling this stuff up on soft-bait gear, and aren't all rushing out to by weedless jig-heads.
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2 hours ago, Screwball said:
I'm in the process of slowly sorting out the electrical system of our Carpenter 29. We had a couple of cheap AliExpress shunts with LCD displays for battery monitoring but their accuracy was questionable at best, esp for amp draw. We already had a victron mppt solar controller and a small Phoenix inverter so decided to stay with the victron ecosystem and fit a smart shunt to monitor starter and aux batteries. After doing some research I found you can run Victron's Venus OS (what their Cerbo system monitoring unit runs) on a raspberry pi. So loaded that onto a spare board I had, added a 7 inch waveshare screen and hooked everything up using ttl/USB converters. Does take some trial and error in Python but you can also roll your own GUIs, which I did since I find the standard one is a bit cluttered with data I don't need. Works great and very happy with it. Only thing I would say is that if you do plan to use all the hardware of the Cerbo (relays, resistive tank sender pickups etc) the Cerbo may be more cost effective. Next addition will be to add a canbus board so it can be hooked into the NMEA bus as well.
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.
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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 the decision’s ‘‘insanity’’.
He says he put in an EOI for NZL14, visited the resort twice to look it over and put his engineers over it to make sure it could be restored.
If he’d been successful, he planned to fix it to preserve the ‘‘masterpiece of engineering and design’’, and put it back into charter on Lake Whakatipu.
‘‘What it takes just to build these boats and race them, I can’t even tell you, they’re like Formula Ones.
‘‘It looked rough, but it could go back [on] the water.’’
He contends he’s got ‘‘all the parts’’ required to fix it, including new sails and rigging, but council didn’t come back to negotiate with him, ‘‘they turned it down and decided it was better just to get rid of it’’.
‘‘It’s just madness … it’s just so irresponsible.’’
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Third hand report via facebook it was refloated last night.
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2 hours ago, Psyche said:
Anyone know what the owners plans are if he gets it floating again? Its a pretty big hole in the water
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. Ever. Obviously as an AC boat it was dry raced.
If he wants to do surfing safari's to make money, he'd need to get the boat up to survey. I'd imagine that costs more than the hulk cost to buy. Not sure why he wouldn't have just got a boat in working order?
He can't be short of money, as he commented he has a new race car arriving this week.
Last I saw last night they were trying to get it off with a jet ski, anyone know if it was successful?
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Is it a Club, or some sort of high return hospitality investment?
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2 hours ago, K4309 said:
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 outboard? The boat only weighs 3.5t...
Owner currently only has a jetski to get it off with. Harbour Master and Coastguard have both told him to f*ck off.
I think we as a community are needed to sort this out before we have an environmental mess that is bigger to sort out...
PM me directly if you want.
PS, I've done this before, when the Kathleen (Van de Stadt 32) washed up on Stanmore Bay beach last August. That owner was trying to sort it by himself. He'd lost his business in covid, and just needed the community to get around him and sort it out. That time I swam my anchors out in the dark in a NE blow and big surf, but it stopped the Kathleen smashing to bits on the sea wall. Next low tide we got Jimmy from Cando lifting along with his Hiab Truck to lift the boat off the beach in one piece. It was then responsibly disposed of from the carpark.
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 owner wanted to use the boat for surfing safari type trips, to drop surfers in behind breaks. I'm not sure why you'd use this hulk instead of a regular boat. Not sure about it's stability sans keel and rig - most yachts roll like a bastard without a rig.
There sounds like a fair legal story with how the guy was kicked out of GH with no engine, electrics or anything. The boat isn't even antifouled. Growing some fine specimens in the 32 days its been in the water.
It also fascinates me how we can have a reasonable pollution risk, and we have no govt or council agency that will get involved when it is easy to control the pollution risk. We have so much overreach into so many aspects of our lives, but zero help when it could be handy. We have a govt that will issue prohibition notices banning farmers from feeding cows with $100,000 fines, but the risk of kevlar and carbon fibre splinters up and down the coast, and they're all "yeah - nah". There is a scallop bed right there too. Not that anyone knows, or can touch it with the full scallop closure. Filter feeders might clean up the carbon splinters for us...
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2 minutes ago, Leftred said:
Sorry shouldn't joke. That's really disappointing the harbourmaster doesn't want to help before it becomes a bigger problem.
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 outboard? The boat only weighs 3.5t...
Owner currently only has a jetski to get it off with. Harbour Master and Coastguard have both told him to f*ck off.
I think we as a community are needed to sort this out before we have an environmental mess that is bigger to sort out...
PM me directly if you want.
PS, I've done this before, when the Kathleen (Van de Stadt 32) washed up on Stanmore Bay beach last August. That owner was trying to sort it by himself. He'd lost his business in covid, and just needed the community to get around him and sort it out. That time I swam my anchors out in the dark in a NE blow and big surf, but it stopped the Kathleen smashing to bits on the sea wall. Next low tide we got Jimmy from Cando lifting along with his Hiab Truck to lift the boat off the beach in one piece. It was then responsibly disposed of from the carpark.
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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?'
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
Seems simple to me, pump and water on retrieval goes through a big filter similar to what they use to pump water from sewage plant before water goes back to sea like at mangere,
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 we need to do to pay for all of this is include caulerpa in the emissions trading scheme. Jokes aside, seaweed is the fastest way to sequester carbon. And I'm sure it will make a fantastic fertilizer. Suck it out of the sea, spread it on the dairy farms, win-win. Strewth, there could even be an export market for carbon neutral fert. The normal stuff has super high environmental impact. Especially that stuff we nick from that impoverished West African country.
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3 hours ago, waikiore said:
Kawau bay is the latest and the men from the ministry are taking immediate action haha. Wait, if we do get a summer here again I for one will be ignoring them and I cant see anyone else taking much notice.
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 spinning, straylining, jigging etc) fisho's don't want weed on their gear, cause you don't catch fish with weed on anything. The only common methods that contact the bottom are soft baiting and bait fishing with a ledger rig. Soft baiting you know straight away if some weed is on your lure, and by nature of the fishing you bring it up and repeat every 3 minutes anyway. Straylining and ledger rig fishing generally involve anchoring but again, it is not hard to check your gear.
MPI acknowledge that wave action tides and currents spread caulerpa. Given you have approx 840 million litres of water a day going through North Channel, they are day-dreaming if they think banning anchoring and fishing is going to have any impact at all.
Hopefully this time they will realise the futility of it, and the very high likelihood of general public ignorance combined with people just ignoring these silly rules. I really think MPI will struggle to get any level of compliance if they try to ban boating in parts of the Hauraki Gulf. Assuming that is, we get a summer this year.
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18 hours ago, Black Panther said:
We're f*cked.
It has also been suggested the GH ferry get shut down once penlink is complete. The cynic in me says " property developer wants land for more apartments ".
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.
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31 minutes ago, nick32 said:
Hi looking for two crew in fiji to Sail to New Zealand on a swan 46 departing end of June.
Cheers Mike
What is the dodgy attachment for, and are you trying to infect my device?
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3 hours ago, aardvarkash10 said:
the whole situation is farcical.
I get on the AKL trains at Papakura each morning at about the same time that Te Huia is pulling in. The increase in use has been easy to see - the decline because of this will be similarly obvious I expect.
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 all punters onto existing services, and just have a far simpler network to manage. Possibly coinciding with the Minister for Transport and Auckland getting the heave-ho.
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1 hour ago, harrytom said:
And would all this building be going on if Dalton/Etnz didn't go to Spain??
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 development of almost any type of floor space.
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58 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said:
There. Fixed it for you.
PS, I'd be most appreciative if one of you inteligent gentlemen could explain to me how it is that Kiwirail can't do it's job and needs regulator intervention.
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30 minutes ago, aardvarkash10 said:
There. Fixed it for you.
Yup. I understand exactly what you are saying. The onus falls on the businesses. In the case of WI, the tour operators.
So why bother with a regulator? Are we supposed to have oversight of high risk industries? Mining? Adventure Tourism?
While the WI trial is all over the media, the businesses are getting all the bad rap. The whole reason I'm going on about this so much, is that Worksafe as the regulator were negligent and should be charged and in the same prosecution. It has been stated by various specialists in the field that if Worksafe weren't the regulator and the prosector, i.e. if they were different entities, then Worksafe would have been charged too.
Bear in mind that Worksafe charged NEMA of all people. Exactly why isn't clear. Surely if they were going to charge NEMA, they would have charged themselves as well? (I would pay money to see that).
So, if the regulator can't do it's job, why bother with it? Across the whole H&S sector, we don't have regulation, we only have prosecution after the fact. We either need to formally seperate these two functions of Worksafe, or just accept it is a joke.
What is really interesting with this Te Huia thing is the regulator (NZTA in this case) have actually gotten off their arse and done something, prior to a fatal incident. This is remarkable.
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Whilst this may appear to be a major thread drift, this is a very good example of taking action / sanctioning an operator BEFORE a major fatal incident. We can only lament if Worksafe took action against all of the White Island tour operators it knew weren't registered or complying with the Adventure Tourism requirements.
The Te Huia Train has ran a red light twice in a month, so NZTA / Waka Koathanger has now banned it from Auckland.
Perhaps if more government agencies did their job, and / or didn't wait for disasters, we wouldn't need so many rules and regulations, given the ones we already have a perfectly adequate. When applied.
Given this train is supposed to be the Hamilton to Auckland Train, I'm not sure what happens now. If I comment on that aspect it will fall well within political comment, so I will just leave it there.
Te Huia train banned from Auckland city after twice failing to stop on red | Stuff.co.nz
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Gulf Harbour Ferry service no more?
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So when was the last time you used the ferry?