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    Electric propulsion and conversion questions

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    SyOhana - a couple of questions for you:

    "Most lithium batteries on the market are technically illegal to use on boats in NZ and might invalidate the EWoF if the inspector is paying attention." - I have Lithium batteries and I am horrified to hear this, can you explain why?  And why would an EWoF inspector be looking at my batteries?

    "NZ made lithium batteries" - I was not aware of any battery manufacturers here in NZ?  I'd like to support if possible.  I know there are people who assemble batteries into packs, is that what you mean?

    Foam backed vinyl

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    Trying to source some to replace my failing headlining.  I got the old lot about 2 years ago from Reid and Twiname.  Went in Thursday and they no longer stock the same stuff, but have some thinner, which would be fine but it's a little too dark.

    Any idea of who/what/where?

    FM AM radios

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    I use the VHF aerial at the top of the mast with a Vesper splitter.  This deals with AIS/VHF/AMFM.  Works like a charm.  I did install the recommended aerial from Pacific Aerials.

    Sever Earthquake off NI East coast and Tsunami Warning

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    13 hours ago, wheels said:

    So the actual story is now out. All the monitoring equipment on the island was tipped over and unplugged from the very first shake. Thus nothing was operating for the real big one and no recording of anything took place.
    So obviously no one considered decent anchoring to concrete pads etc incase a major shake took place.

    I think you'll find it was bolted down:

    "The staff who went ashore found that a rack, which was bolted to the floor and held GNS equipment, had been pulled out of the ground and tipped over"

    Thailand welcoming yachts...

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    4 hours ago, Fogg said:

    As the article says everyone will be wearing a mandatory digital tracker confirming their health and location for the 14 days. They use the same system in HK to confirm new arrivals are staying at home for self-isolation as required.

    Only NZ uses a ‘strategy of hope’ aka “trust” combined with occasional phone calls or even a door knock when the case officers feel like it’s a nice day for a walkabout to pick up some more donuts.

    Is this correct?  Don't all returnees enter MIQ for 2 weeks, with multiple tests?

    The "trust" model operated in the early days - we were checked on by multiple professional, courteous and well trained police staff.  Then we moved on to MIQ as the volumes of returnees decreased, at inverse proportion to the whingeing and whining of certain political parties who really couldn't decide what they wanted.  Goodness knows where we would be had they been listened to.

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    Big-spending superyacht turned away

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    But wait!  This sounds as though we may not have the full story.... (of course that doesn't stop the knockers on this site...)

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/Pacificnewsroom/permalink/868825307037640

    "BOLD QUESTIONS

    By Michael Field
    The German owned superyacht Bold remains in quarantine in Fiji after a case of Covid-19 was found aboard it last Saturday.
    While Fiji’s Ministry of Health issued a confusing statement about the incident, the mystery now is what happened with it in Vanuatu?
    The nation of 300,000 has managed to keep Covid-19 to its border, but did Bold violate that border?
    Here is what we know.
    German billionaire Guido Krass owns the US$100 million Marshall Islands flagged Bold. It’s not known whether he has been on board as these events unfolded but the vessel was heading to Aotearoa-New Zealand for yachting’s America’s Cup. As Covid had kept many superyachts out of the country, Bold was the star turn.
    The vessel was in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, when it departed at 10.23am on February 1. It listed its new port of call as Auckland, New Zealand, advising its ETA as 1am February 15.
    It should be noted that Port Moresby had been on the edge of what will be a chaotic Covid lockdown.
    According to a Fiji Ministry of Health statement issued on Monday, among those who had joined Bold in Port Moresby was a 44-year-old man. He had no Covid symptoms and tested negative during pre-departure testing in Port Moresby.
    As the vessel left it did not, as indicated on MarineTraffic.com, take a direct course for Auckland, but rather headed for Moewo, a long thin island of 4000 people, 300 kilometres north of Port Vila. It also visited Pentecost Island south of Moewo.
    It arrived off there on February 13 where it was spotted by locals. Photos and a video were taken and as well as being sent to police in Luganville, they were sent to The Pacific Newsroom.
    We were able to quickly identify the vessel.
    The Vanuatu authorities have not said what happened but on February 14 it was in Port Vila harbour, having been escorted there by the Vanuatu patrol vessel Tukoro.
    State broadcaster VBTC was there and photographed officials boarding Bold.
    And infringement notice was issued against Bold for illegal entry,
    What we don’t know was the state of the 44-year-old man. It had been 13 days since he had tested negative to Covid, In 20 days time, the man would test positive in Fiji.
    Did the virus get to go ashore in Moewo and Pentecost?
    The only information on this came in a Radio New Zealand/New Zealand Herald interview with Bold’s skipper Todd Leech who made no mention of his trip to Vanuatu nor the Covid positive on his boat.
    He said Bold had strict pandemic protocols on board and ashore and operated as a superyacht bubble.
    "All our time at sea the owners and the crew are quite scared of coronavirus so we literally don't go ashore. We will go to an uninhabited beach or go for a swim at an offshore reef but we have not been going into town. I can't tell you the last time I went to a restaurant or bar - that was many, many months ago," Leech said.
    After leaving Port Vila Bold again sailed on a court that did not take it to Auckland but headed to the Tonga territory of Minerva atoll. It was an odd place to go; not rising above sea-level, it has no resident population.
    There Bold stayed until March 5 when, coincidentally, a magnitude 8 earthquake rattled through the area. It soon after set sail for Fiji’s “Blue Lane” at Denarau, arriving there on March 6 and the Covid positive result.
    Todd Leech says New Zealand has refused to give access to Bold, preventing New Zealand’s marine service industry from getting nearly a million dollars worth of refit business. They will now take that to Australia.
    From Vanuatu Broadcasting:
    From Fiji Ministry of Health"

    Coastguard nark

    in MarineTalk

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    Possibly the Coast Guard released the article to front-foot it - so as to avoid a less positive report.

    And - one man's nark is another man's whistleblower.  The real problem here is the motorist not being sufficiently organised to have enough tonic.  Should be banned from boating.

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    Diesel consumption when in neutral

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    2 hours ago, Tamure said:

    When you start talking fuel burn in weight, you have now entered the big leagues! Was that the sport fisher that YDL had for a while?

    No idea, the details have been rinsed from my brain....  Possibly there was more than one though.

    Mayday call off Coromandel

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    4 hours ago, wheels said:

    I usually always find inexperienced sailors way over estimate wave height. Even with NZ waters/tides/wind, it is very rare to get 8m seas. It is truly sobering to be in 5 to 6m and I can say that from experience having been in wrong place wron tide time off Wellington. You wonder how water can defy such logic of standing that high and they make you feel very small, even in a 45ft boat.

    8m is getting truly Biblical....

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