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  1. Kawau island,good point,last Christmas we walked the copper mine track from mansion house and also the track to school house to see the grave sight.Huge pines cut down and just left,Total waste of resources.The cost is too horrendous to remove v value of the pulp.Did they close the track at Gt Barrier,the kauri dam track now the dam being destroyed in a storm 2 yr ago?
  2. Thanks,Had no idea. But going ashore at home bay,risky really??flat ground,no toilets big deal,no toilets at the summit of rangi.
  3. I take the salad is no longer a problem at onehunga?did a fiji sponsored regatta there a few years ago in the 1m
  4. with talk of empty marinas,and the Auckland council wanting to get rid of moorings,so where are all vessels that once occupied these going too?
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    Whiting 39

    who took over the building of whiting yachts after pauls death? see so many Spencers for sale,was owned by john built by john,last yacht i recall john building and owning was Hey Jude mid 70s
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    Whiting 39

    only concern for is teak decking,but being built in 1986 should be good for a few more years
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    grid

    panmure wharf but depending on draft,3.m tides allow 5ft 6
  8. only 1 in 3000 containers get inspected,we are a transit facility approved work place,and from my observations the requirements before opening a container are,Approved staff member(mpj course)a rubbish bin,rubbish bags and a torch.Then you can crack the container open and if any critters appear shut the door and contact mpi,usually a waste of time as the critters have already escaped. Remember on planes they use set off the fly sprays but has stopped. bio security staff numbers cut,the reckon they know which containers are dodgy,bet not every used car that arrives is inspected. we are only pl
  9. bugger number 10 off the market due to additives,was $199. now they tried to sell me vivid for $325 ended up with altex coastal copper based for $175,will have to wait and see how it goes,they still talk about lasting 18 months,just could not bring myself to justify the difference in price from number 10 to vivid.But they did say black seems to last longer than any other colour. At least the 1 inch anode is still $24 Discovered by smearing a small amount of under water grease on paddle wheel no growth in 2 months so what you say about smearing prop shaft instead if antifoul?
  10. Thanks off to buy black number 10 now,
  11. Dumb question but needs to be asked. Does colour have any effect as far certain mooring areas go?managed to get 24 months using no 10 black but this year used no 10 red and 9 months needs doing again,admittedly tamiki river has been warmer this year.
  12. Gave the modern boats a shock at prize giving,key consistently turn up.
  13. easy answer there"Wheels" they used the spat from Marlborough to seed the Stuart Island beds,knowing full well that Marlborough has/had the parasite. The only way to eradicate the parasite is to destroy all oyster beds by bring ashore,but I guess the parasite will find another host. How can any council control Fan worm when imo would travel via currents or ships ballast pumped out off the coast and current would bring ashore eventually
  14. Any truth that they just sacked 40staff
  15. He started a give a little page and posted a thread for it.2 or 3 of us made a suggestion or 2 on the morals of a give a little page.He used such colourful language telling us where to go with our advice,merely pointed out using such language was not going to help ones cause,next minute deleted. As far as i am concerned those give a little pages are for those in need of medical expenses etc where the govt/family just cannot cover costs. From his last post,somewhere,sounds like he has seeked employment to finance his repairs etc.
  16. similar boats speeds perhaps we now need to mix it up a bit and force an oracle error
  17. Well good on you Shane.hope it works out well and save some coin so you can carry on
  18. ww2today.com/2nd-october-1942-troopship-liner-queen-mary-sinks-hms-curacoa The two ships collided with each other at 2:12 pm. The massive Queen Mary split Curacoa in two, leaving the cruiser’s halves engulfed in flames. She sank six minutes later with a loss of 338 men – from a total crew of 439. The Queen Mary was under strict orders not to stop for anything and continued on to Scotland, where she was outfitted with a concrete plug and sailed to Boston for more permanent repairs.
  19. was it ww2 queen mary kept on steaming after running over her escort?escort zagged instead of zigged
  20. some of are such an easy wind up,take things to serious,anyway Maori etc may of signed an agreement /treaty but even after the event we wanted more. In this case good on Tauranga iwi to stand up against the crown.This is only stage one.Wait till the water rights gets in to full swing.
  21. Europeans(English decent)have caused nothing but harm to indigenous people where ever they went.America,werent happy until they drove the red Indians in to middle of no where and killed the buffalo starved the people,go to Australia(Tasmania) just for fun kill the aborigine's and further more removed there children to be brought up the English way Here in NZ,Maori may of eaten all the mariori who really knows?Next minute we are ramming our religion./way of life down their necks,we arrived uninvited.Where ever we have gone we have spread diseases.
  22. might be wrong here,but pre european days there were tribes who went inland while others stayed on the coast.Take a look at Terapaha,he marched inland and decimated inland tribes.The Hauraki iwi who want to be part of Tauranga Moana,are probably the ones who settled around thames/miranda coast lines.imo if maori can prove ancestral fishing grounds they should be the legal occupiers/guardians. Customary is not just a maori right it applies to all Nzers,it is a means to exceed daily limits for special events.Tangis etc need to apply to the local kaumatua for a permit.
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    15hp

    If you looking using an outboard instead inboard I would consider a long shaft 15hp Yamaha or any well known brand,stay away from things like parsons etc and go new,2nd hand who knows what abuse it has had,new in most cases is not much more,charge system 4 stroke ,need a decent bracket that you can adjust easily. what is wrong with inboard as cost of o/b may fix inboard?
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