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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.

There are some interesting parallels with YNZ handing cat 1 inspections back to MNZ, with the Motor Caravan Association handing back in the inspection and issuing of Self Containment Certificates back to MBIE. Basically a small special interest group with quasi-professional elements but largely volunteer based getting sick of administering central govt dictates and handing the responsibility back - or getting it snatched off them - by the bureaucrats to increase the size of their portfolio and budgets. Not having a land yacht myself I'm not across the full details, but by all accounts it

You never know, MNZ might take some guidance from the Ministry of Regulations and realise that the benefit of central govt mandated inspections overriding skipper responsibility and the fact that loopholes are so prevalent and easily obtained, that the whole compulsory cat 1 inspection is a waste of time. They might drop the whole thing and make it a voluntary requirement, governed primarily by insurance requirements. But then, maybe not. It may require whole bureaucracies to break out in viral attacks of logic.

This is clearly an entirely different mindset to using the lead acid variants and wanting to keep them as topped up as possible at all times.

Question, I thought one of the benefits of LiFePo was that you could use the full battery capacity, as in 100%. That is a clear advantage over the lead acid variants where you generally can't go below 50% DoD as it greatly reduces cycle life - as in you can if you need to, but you don't design your system to so that you get good cycle life. If you keep your LiFePo between 80% and 30%, you are only using 50% of the capacity. Noting I would probably do the same if I had a LiFePo, but what is the main reason for doing that? Is it just being conservative? (which is a good thing

Delivered in March 2024, and pranged on it's first operational patrol. As the article said, Fiji are working to manage an embarrassing situation.

An accurate way of establishing the depth and profile of the reef you are on, to assist in formulating a plan to get off. Maybe if half the ship is afloat you could shift all the weight forward to lift the stern off and float free. Simple to check with a lead line.

And the Mayor of Auckland, John Banks. Busted hooning on a jetski within 200m of shore, might have been Kohi I think. I would support registration of boats, specifically with a clearly displayed identifying number. That people can be easily traced and followed up for poor behaviour I think would have a profound effect on a lot of poor behaviour. I would say to register fizz boats, but I have no issue with registering all boats, not going to pretend yachties and launch owners don't have a proportion of poorly behaving individuals. I don't see any benefit in licensing. In Aust it appea

You didn't say if this was a charter boat or not? This is known to greatly influence the risk profile and level of caution taken