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Are those ones by Watchman's Is on moorings or at anchor? I thought that was an 'anchoring' zone. I know the odd boat in Cox's bay are just anchored, instead of the whole mooring rigmarole.

I thought spinning the compass was what you did when you wanted to confirm the deviation? Or is that swinging the compass? Either way IT, I'm sure you are doing it wrong.

IT, you sure you weren't trying to navigate the current government policy on the Auckland Harbour bike bridge, housing supply, RMA reforms, climate change or security of energy supply? I know, you were trying to navigate how to get a resource consent for a small shed in an empty paddock?

I'm with Mariner, they had the least requirements to get insurance, and were the cheapest. We didn't need a survey or anything. 35 yr old wooden log. Why did you need a survey? Some outfits I tried getting quotes from had ridiculous requirements. Pantaneous wanted survey reports on our mooring piles every 2 years. I'm like, is just a massive timber post, new, H5 treated, about 2 feet thick. What else do you want to know about them? That was including rig survey, out of water survey, covid tests, marriage certificate, copy of my school certificate grades etc

Well, that changes the spec substantially, and safely excludes the cheap Chinese deflatable options a lot of us go with. If you are looking at a rugged alloy option, I would also through into the mix a stitch and glue option. Plywood, and for your application you would give it a glass skin for strength and robustness. Easily repaired in the middle of no where (epoxy resin and what ever wood you have lieing about, example of a cruiser T-bonned in the Marquesuas, and had the dinghy fixed on the beach). The big advantage is you can come up with the exact attributes you want in stability

Thinking like a bureaucrat, I wouldn't put in writing that you've been cleaning the boat in the water, and there is (now) no fan worm on it. It being an offence and all to clean pests off the hull in the water. If they think there was fan worm on it, and there is not now, and you say you cleaned it in the water, they might have a pop on that rule. Maybe you could pay the floating doc for a receipt for a clean. There must be a black market in those around Christmas, I can't see why August would be any different. It is all twaddlebollocks, but sometimes you have to watch that you don't

In reality a haul out wash and put it back in is all that should be required, which might not hurt if you have a big race planned between now and then anyway, but the twaddlebollocks of it all is a bit exasperating. Getting your wash approved in writing by a suitably warranted officer etc could be more work than taking her over to the floating dock. Don't wash too soon before your big race though, you might catch it off the finger again...

But sailors like to party? No?

Yes, I've used him, very good and knowledgable. Unfortunately I wasn't able to actually work out what his name was. He was recommended to us by Richard Macalister at Kiwi Yachting when we had a problem with our nexus gear. He actually fixed our course controller...

Wow, There is several things in that. 1) they took 6 weeks to contact you, but want you to submit a plan within 8 days? (i.e. 1 week?) 2) How did they contact you? email or post? How do they have your contact details? Its not like boats have car registrations? 3) what legislation are they using? Keen to understand the rules on this. Other than the illogic of needing to keep you boat clean in an infested marina. Is the bottom of your keel antifouled? We've currently hauled out to re-apply, and I'm spending $$$ and effort to jack the boat up so we can do the bottom

Thanks BoI, So basically, the only thing they can control is recreational boats, and nothing else. The thing is so good at reproducing, 50,000 eggs a go, that last 3 weeks in the water, that it is impossible to eradicate. I'm fairly sure that the exec summary actually said it is a champion masterbator. (sperm casting reproductive strategy) Anyway, I think we should refer to it by the scientific name, it sounds far more sexy than fan worm. Sabella Spallanzanii Sounds like a good Italian AmCup challenge. Duty Free, are you talking about the white haemaroids? They are ano

mcp, what do you want to use the dinghy for? Are you in a marina, or on a mooring? Do you want to row short trips in a Bay from anchor to beach, or go on epic missions to supermarkets and back? I recently replaced our 20 yr old hypalon. Was very interested in a hard dinghy and did a lot of research on shape, characteristics, nesting, towing, rowing etc. In the end on I got a budget model aarkron inflatable. $1,200 I think, where the materials to build a good ply dinghy was coming in at $8-$900, excluding my time. Basically, the inflatables are cheap and easy. They row like a pig, but

To clarify, I agree that boats should be free of fan worm when moving from place to place. However, it is counter productive to restrict hull cleaning in the water if the immediate surrounding environment is already infested with fan worm. This is with reference to cleaning on a mooring. It is logical not to take an infest hull to Little Barrier Island and scrub off 2 years of growth on the foreshore. Fan worm spreads by discharging spores into water currents. That is why tidal estuaries around Auckland are heavily infested with it. They were introduced in ballast water from international

The great irony in your title - the Marina was built by Developers. If it weren't for Developers, you wouldn't have a marina. 99% of people that have a pathologically dislike of Developers live in a house. The inconvenient truth is that the Developers built the house, developed the section the house is on, built the roads, footpaths, power supply, water and wastewater to the section... By rights, if you want to bitch about Developers, you should not live in a house. Then you could take the moral high ground.

Maybe its the couple of million cubic meters of water that move out of, and back into the river twice a day? They are thickest where there is good water flow. The fanny worm is endemic along the northern side of the Whangaparaoa peninsular also. Go for a paddle board at low tide. I've seen it all along the rocks between Stanmore Bay and Red Beach. No container ships there either. No marina's or mooring areas either. Plenty of tide and water current though. I don't actually understand, from a biological / ecological point of view, how a yacht hull is any different to any other natura

Would Dunphy's support be conditional on GD not being in charge by chance?

Following on from Silly Rules Parts 1 & 2, the Cat 1 windows and hull cleaning rules, this article is bad PR for DoC. Marine Bio's saying the rules are rubbish, and DoC is using scare tactics. Whowaddathunk? It is interesting that the only people supporting the proposal are commercial operators with existing permits to swim with the dolphins. And a large proportion of submissions are on pro-forma's from Forest & Bird who don't live in the area (i.e. eco zeolots who don't really understand what they are talking about). "Misrepresented" data and "inadequate" supporting informat

Yes, I've checked that out. North side of the river, and up around Stillwater, is a Coastal- Mooring Zone "Weiti A" under the Unitary Plan. The South side is a SEA-m Marine significant ecological area. So I can still dive on my hull (as per Carpe Diems reply) and clean it, if it is light fouling and I don't find the fanny worm. My interpretation of the rules is that if you let your hull get too far gone, you need to haul out and clean it. But if you keep it clean, you can clean it in the water. We have just hauled out (yesterday) to re-apply the copper coat. My entire premise of hull main

Have I read the rules properly, that if you comply to risk 1 (low risk, low fouling etc) that it is ok to clean in the water, in a marina? If that is correct, then do coastal mooring zones also fall under the rules of marinas, in that you can clean in the water, on your mooring, provided you are low risk, light fouling? They do actually say they encourage cleaning, so you don't spread the pests around. Being able to clean light fouling in the water would be logical, its just not explicitly stated in that document. This differentiates from not being able to clean in marina - Sign

I re-read the rules. It is an offense for fouling to be so heavy as to allow 'passive discharges', unless you have a resource consent. As far as I know, all marina's have RC's, and most club pontoons / wharfs etc also have RC's.

But can I clean my boat? Life is getting waaay too complicated. I might go but a ute, oh, wait a minute...

No, the finger wont move around, but is clearly covered under the 'passive discharge' requirements. The stated need for the passive discharge rules is to prevent pests moving around. and having them right next to your boat is going to enhance their ability to move around. Be interesting to understand the Unitary Plan rules on the marine pests that the commercial (marinas) must follow. Would bankrupt certain outfits like AT if they had to go clean the fanny worm off every structure / wharf / pile they have in the harbour. Point of order. Commercial and military have their own rules, but th

Yes, states a 'craft' is anything including planes and pontoons. It is an offence to have any pests on the pontoon (fan worm), also to have fouling greater than 'light', or to allow 'passive discharge' of biofouling. Potentially a major issue for club pontoons. Then I see, right at the end, that these rules don't apply to commercial operators.....

Personally I think this is a racist policy overtly targeted at settlers and Ti Tiriti is completely to blame. Oh, and something about colonieism. And how I was disadvantaged as a child. The govt should pay us to clean out boats.

I don't think "because of covid" covers the why? part very well. Why? Why not a slightly bigger or more comfortable boat?