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As the four-week trial progressed, weather experts gave evidence about the state of the sea around North Cape. They claimed rogue waves could occur anywhere, anytime and at any sea level. Judge Rzepecky decided he could not be certain Goodhew could have predicted a rogue wave would appear, evidence he believed was clear through the trial. “Based on observations and scientific evidence, I cannot be sure the presence of a wave was reasonably foreseeable and after considering all the evidence I cannot be sure that a reasonably careful mariner should have decided to stay. “I’

Maybe it was the lying key Crown witness that did it? "Too rough to go fishing, Enchanter should never have left the anchorage" Accept AIS showed said key Crown witness spent 7 hours fishing that morning...

Not guilty. Wow. How often does that happen?!? Can't wait for Maritime NZ to comment... From Aardvarks link: Judge Rzepecky said the terrible tragedy was caused by a significant rogue wave in otherwise benign conditions, and could not be sure Goodhew could have foreseen it given the information he had at the time.

This is getting beyond my knowledge, But if the report was issued to the lawyers by Worksafe, does that immediately make it 'disclosable' as evidence? In the same way that the external lawyer (I understood to be the Crown Prosecutor) stated Paul Patterson should not send his original report, my understanding being that if he did so it would then be 'disclosable' to all, including the defense. The principals of full disclosure being that the prosecution must disclose all evidence, if it helps their case or not. The extension being a failure to make full disclosure can show p

Yes, absolutely. I can't think of a professional situation where you can rewrite someone else's document, put their signature on it and issue it. More so and especially against that persons express and written wishes. In just about every scenario I can think of this would be labelled any one of: Fraud, Obtaining by deception, Altering a document for pecuniary benefit, etc. The unwarranted charges against the helo companies are one thing, and the bit relevant to this thread, but the way Worksafe conducted themselves and the lengths they went to to change the facts

This is a deeply concerning story and relates directly the the MNZ prosecution of Lance Goodhew. It is way too long to do justice by copying the relevant paragraphs (just about the whole thing is relevant). I do recommend you read it. I feel it justifies my position on MNZ 'persecuting' Lance Goodhew in this situation, specifically in that the charges are not warranted based on the evidence, and that the charges were predetermined and political in nature, in that people died so the regulator must hang someone. Anyone. In this example, Worksafe assigned their leading helicopter indust

Whoop whoop Love to take the family along, wonder if tickets will cost me a kidney, or my first born. Wonder what the chances are of being able to watch it from the boat - not a lot of room for a spectator fleet off the tank farm though. Auckland, Jan 18-19

Yet I suspect a $132,000 fine might make some people think about putting it in neutral before scrolling through the MFD to find a fault alarm. At the end of the day, it was that one indecision to not throttle back that led to the ferry skipper being paralyised. Note I understood he was flicking through screens on the MFD rather than his phone, but the analogy of drivers on their phone is exactly the same.

I'm no expert on elbows, but when I put my new engine in the supplier had a wide range of alternative elbows to assist with retrofitting the engine into the existing installation. None of them were anywhere near those prices. I would have though $200 to $400 max (2019 dollars). If I recall correctly they were all alloy elbows. Fairly sure the elbow on my engine is alloy too. I don't really know what the value is in stainless over iron over alloy. Given most of my engine is alloy now I can't see the issue with an alloy elbow, it wont corrode like iron, and is a fraction of the price of sta

Not always. It is becoming increasingly common to have free shipping. The kicker is you often have to click through to the last page to find out, and I suspect many people will just complete the transaction once they get that far. And free shipping is normally on items worth more than $50 or a hundy though, not two bolts. Although last time I went in to Fosters to by 2 screws (they were incredibly attractive, fancy screws, silicon bronze etc), the lady did say they have had people order 2 bolts and get them couriered / delivered, via their website. Courier was more than the bolts (but jud

I'm not across our current medal prospects, but three points to note: 1) A selector had a son via-ing for selection in a hotless contested class. YNZ didn't see a problem with that. It was only resolved when the son broke his leg 2 days before the nominations were going to be confirmed, putting the other crew into nomination. 2) for the first time ever in NZ, the arbitration panel forced YNZ to include athletes they excluded. 2 of them. 3) our best and most experienced crew didn't meet YNZ's own selection criteria. It certainly has the look and smell of a shambles. Edi

Marine Deals is right up there with any parallel importer, no customer advise or making sure you are getting the right product etc. If you are shopping at marine deals, you may as well go straight to Temu. I do shop at Burnsco, mainly cause they are the only option for many things, and do find the staff really good and helpful, but I don't describe Burnsco as an owner operator type. Probably the best examples of that are fishing shops. There are two owner operator fishing shops near me, or I could get the same stuff off Marine Deals cheaper. Get to have some banter and a little local inte

Sometimes you can waste money paying too little for something. I've found that out buying cheap stuff that is junk / doesn't do the job. And sometimes the local retailers offer a value proposition with knowledge and advice, not just on price point. Not always. But I do like supporting local owner operators when I get a chance.

I see after today's sh*t show / drifterthon they have moved tomorrows start tome earlier by 3 hours, to 5am NZ time. Based on the forecast for thunder storms, they want to get some stable wind / racing in earlier in the day. Even my missus couldn't understand why the blew race 3 up on the first leg. There is the race time limit of 16 minutes. Yes there was major wind shift on the course but that handn't hit the boats yet. Is there another time limit to finish the first leg in? If there was, as Burling notes, it wasn't applied in AbuDhabi. My miss 11 says it is the most boring yacht r

From a bystander point of view, is the fee for a Cat 1 cert $2,200? and the cost of registering in Poland $395 euro? So it is cheaper outright to register offshore, and then you don't need to spend all the other boat dollars on items Cat 1 require but you don't want or need? Simplistic approach I know, but certainly makes the offshore registration the path of least resistance.

They've got her off. Very lucky. Now to see if the rudder is still attached or not.

The steering was 'upgraded' last month. So this grounding has nothing to do with the boats age. This is why Kiwirail can't have nice things.

They don't actually do anything though do they? Don't they just sling sh*t at people that were doing something, after the fact? Isn't that why they are staffed with lawyers and not ex-sea captains? Can't wait for the Enchanter verdict.

There is a good chance the Black Foils will get dropped for next season. 4 teams haven't yet found purchasers of the team from SailGP, including the Black Foils. SailGP want $34mil for the Spanish team, so not small change. With all of the Black Foils team (or at least the brains trust) heading off for an AC cycle, will they even want to continue running a sailGP programme at the same time? Now with the inclusion of a Brazil team, they're going to need to drop one. Who will it be?

Wow, check out the headline, only due to Ngati Manuhiri and no-one else. Strewth, they'll be funding everything themselves then? It is nice to have a good news story BUT, they have eliminated one clump. The other thing I am unsure of, is if the water visibility has been suitable for a proper search. We are in winter (obviously) and have had nothing but N'East or easterlies, big rain events and absolutely zero settled weather with regard to letting water viz clear. I may be wrong, I haven't been spearfishing myself for some time, so the viz may be better than I realise but I doubt it.

Never a truer word spoken. How long has D. Abbercrombie been in that role now? at least 15 years? The only sporting body to ever be told by the arbitration panel they completely fucked up and were forced to nominate their own athletes. Had a selector who's son was via-ing for selection. Can't spell conflict of interest, or due process. A remarkable PR disaster running in the MSM. I am very interested why this would be announce 10 days before in comes into force. I suspect the cruising community that fund YNZ and all the non-dinghy racing clubs will have an outpouring of criticis

Not sure. This boat was called Runaway, think it was renamed after the keel feel off the first time. All the info is on SA, including a thread with far more knowledge than me. keel hauled – Sailing Anarchy

Second time it's fallen off that particular boat too. Would make jokes about slow learning and what not, but unfortunately a guy died this time. The wings are water ballasted, was designed by Sayer for the Mel-Osaka back in the day.

hope he's got a spare pare of glasses. Can see why vendee skippers and other crazy high speed soloists are starting to wear helmets more regularly now.