Steve

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I just won't stand or this. The first time a particular race of people get to fish somewhere I'm not allowed, I'm out there fishing beside them. Can't wait to see what happens then. The courts are going to be very very full of disgruntled fishos. It's all of us or none of us. The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill introduced by the Labour government late last year - see The Government's Hauraki Gulf 'protection' plan. This initiative is a step towards achieving the protection of 30% of our ocean by 2030

Racing yesterday off Browns island and we got in amongst a school of Orca. One hefty young buck peeled off and decided to have a bit of fun with us. We were doing 12 knots and this guy was hardly moving, he came right up under the stern and started playing with the leeward rudder, little taps to start with then a hefty whack which just about took the tiller out of my hand. The rest of the family turned up and called him off so the whole episode lasted less than a minute but a bit scary for sure. I've had a few dolphins do this before but this was a bit next level, he was a big animal. I s

Bad luck Josh, I know how hard you've been trying to be a cruiser. You've well and truly cocked that up. They'll never let you back in now.

It's just containers. Christchurch to Queenstown by truck. Not that hard. Coutts has already mentioned Queenstown with a twinkle in his eye. Great way to showcase NZ. I know the Otago Council is tricky to deal with but they might learn some lessons from Akl and Chch.

My money's on Queenstown. No dolphins, no Auckland Council BS. That's assuming NZ even gets another chance to cock it up.

Compared to 10 k a year at Pine Harbour for 12m. And yes, for leaseholders. Who could afford to rent? I understand that someone needs to die before the waiting list moves at Sulphur point. They used to be able to sell the berth with the boat. So some wags would buy a worthless old shitter and sell it for megabucks, berth included. Don't know if that still happens.

Oh Dear, that doesn't look good for him.

I've fished off East Cape on these boats and found the skippers and deckies very competent. And the boats very sea worthy. I think the doco interviews pretty well exonnerated the skipper and his decisions. The court may have a different view but a rogue wave is really difficult to forecast.

And Pipi will be supplying the Longhaul 140nm reach, reach, reach. boat for Jon Cunning bugger.

Bit bashy I imagine

If you listen to the whole interview its not really about the dolphins. Sail GP is ok with protecting the wildlife. Its more about the Iwi. Nowhere else in the world do they need to pay upwards of 300k to appease the various authorities. The layers of bureaucracy all trying to tiptoe around the Iwi and the dolphin huggers go absolutely over the top. There were a dozen iwi appointed so called dolphin experts on $600 plus expenses per day from last Wednesday. Sir Russell called it right. The woke madness around stuff these days is just too hard. The rest of the world bends over backward

Yes, Gulf Classic is a must do for us every year so I hope they don't clash next time. About a dozen keelers and a pile of trailer boats this year so I guess it wouldn't affect the harbour race numbers significantly. Be nice to do both though, specially now that its 30 bucks.

Awesome, how much fun is that going to be!

Yes, great form stability. Still overpowered occasionally but mainly due to me being too slow single handed. Mostly the big bear away fixed it so some exciting speeds. I think that Elliott must have been very well helmed.

Would have been a bit quicker 2 up Jon but no way we’d catch that Elliott weapon.

We're in. Now why is this one so much more exciting and attractive than the BOP 380? It must be so frustrating for the likes of RAYC to see SSANZ constantly pop up with over subscribed events. 1. SSANZ do this stuff really well. They just seem to know what we want. 2. It's Cat 3, no Safety Survival Course. 3. It's SSANZ, did I mention that already. 4. Everyone's 2 handed, not just a division. 5. The stopovers are fun. 6. TONS of notice. I'll be standing in line for this one.

It's that jolly Advanced Sea Survival Course slowing everyone down. Once you've done it a couple of times the novelty really wears off and it feels a bit pointless. It's a bit like asking to sit your driving licence every couple of years. I'm not senile. (yet)

Quite frankly they were bloody amazing this year. Best welcome ever. But we could certainly see the writing on the wall. I've always enjoyed this race and would love to see it back in 2025. However it probably needs the support of a couple of Auckland clubs to get the numbers up.

A recently widowed old lady decided she needed a social life so she signed up for evening classes at the local college. She thought: “Hmmm, my George and I went sailing in our younger days!” so she signed up for sailing lessons but the first class was a classroom-based turorial. She got to the college but she was late and started frantically running around the corridors looking for the room. Unfortunately, she ran into the Sex Ed class instead. Flustered, she found herself a desk and apologised. The tutor said:”That’s not a problem. Why don’t you tell us about your first time?” She l

Because of incoming tides I guess.

Nothing worse than floating into a floater.

I knew I'd stuffed it up so I changed litres to tons. That dilution is quite possibly within the rules. Resource Management Act says 50ml per litre is ok for discharge. That's .05%. (Before Discharge) With your tide getting it down to 1/1000 of that, we're all good for swimming I reckon.

So lets play with some more sh*t. Approximate size of the Hauraki Gulf, 2000 squ km, about 50km across and 80 km N to S. Bit of a triangle shape and a couple of islands in the way so halved 4000. Roughly 2m tide range twice a day. Each square km will lose, then gain 2 million tons twice a day. 2 million x 2 x 2000 = 8 billion tons. Lets say that only 5% of that water washes up and down the ditch. So 400 million tons over 3 weeks = 8.4 billion tons of flushing past North Head. Versus what? 27 million litres of very diluted poos and wees. So for every time you flush 1500 x 44 gallon

I think we need to do a bit more maths. Lets say that a tenth of Auckland's sewage is being spilt. I know its way less. So lets allow 4 flushes a day per person @ about 10 litres per flush. Remember its only a couple of hundred mils per pee mixed with that 10 litres, but lets disregard that and call all 40 litres raw sewage. Roughly 1.6 million people live here so 160k x 40 = 6.4 million litres per day. That's 74 litres per second not 250. If we factor in the immediate dilution of that sewage with 40 litres of water you might be looking tops 20% of that. Say 15 litres per s