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Must admit I'm having 2nd thoughts about my inflatable.
Pros:
comfortable to wear when sailing.
Doubles as a harness
Easy to store.
Easy to wear over wet weather gear.
Cons:
Doubts about inflating when needed
Needs servicing
No good if you get knocked out
Uncomfortable in the water.
Hard for the wearer to be useful in doing something like righting a capsized boat/dinghy.
Not sure I'd want to wear one in the water for an extended period.
Don't give that added insulation on a cold night/day.
My guess is that everyone on crew has experience in using a LJ in anger from dinghy sailing and wind surfing. I never had issues with a well designed one (and hate the old sausage ones) and from what I saw today I wouldn't go small boat sailing with an inflatable.
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I Am now a total advocate for the view that a LJ without a crotch strap is like a dog with a bicycle. Just helped rescue 20 crew from an overturned waka in a choppy TAURANGA harbour.
One non swimmer had a crotch strapless inflatable and was quite distressed when we got there. They'd been in the water for only 10 mins and she was being supported by two others. it was like she was being smothered by her own LJ.
And that is without raising the dual issues of why were there so many in the thing in the first place and the number of boats that went past without stopping to see if things were ok.
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????????keen to hear how you get on.
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We have a southern pacific inflatable with a broken valve.
Anyone know if and where they can be replaced in Tauranga?
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And you do your boating right into the heart of most of the major cities. Last year I was at a wedding reception beside a canal in Clapham bang in middle of London and all these canal boats were floating past and I thought it looked like a way cool way to see the city.
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I thought it was about right. We did TAURANGA -whangamata on friday evening. Ready for the return race in Saturday. Expected and got a 15-20 knot westerly. Turned SW later and moderated overnight. We had to anchor off the beach and were glad of the forecast being right
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SR26 in Westhaven. Currently has perspex type windows with a zillion bolts through. I'm told if done in perspex again it only really needs bolts in the corners due to the performance of the adhesive being very good now.
PM me if you are interested.
Cheers
I did windows my self and was told to be careful with bolts only in corners as the stresses there can cause them to crack. Without bolts the whole window is flexible. I didn't use bolts at all in the end and no problems after 3 years. Used a Sika flex product, but can't remember which one.
If you use bolts use several to spread the load.
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I use an anchor buddy mainly when it is light as I feel it reduces the swing arc in exactly this times when the rwidual current pushes the boats in different directions. I'm on rope/chain.
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Does anyone else use the "drop your anchor between two boats transoms" rule?
It's what I was taught many moons ago and then, no matter how crowded the bay, no boat should be over your anchor when retrieving it (not you over theirs). Probably even in the situation just described by pacifier. In which case nobody has any idea where another boat's anchor is.
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Coastguard site just reported Tiri wind 59 gust 65
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Forget summer. It's an Indian spring.
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Sailng in TAURANGA can get a bit intense. The ships come in pretty quick. I was once in my trailer sailer in the entrance and couldn't get the OB started with a shop blaring away behind me. . Wasn't my fault and was my fault - the ship wasn't there when we started coming in (light day, outgoing tide) and we didn't keep a look out behind. Didn't have a change of undies on board but we all needed them when the horn first sounded. Not my best Moment.
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Recent dog story: the names have been changed to protect the ....
Friends came over to visit our boat with their wee doggy. We have a dog too but don't take it with us so were keen to see how it reacted to the boat.
The wa was delighted in the way It trotted over our boat, down all the little nooks and crannies. We were assured it was boat trained until what seemed like it making a bed in my mates bunk was it actually making a toilet out of his sleeping bag.
Question answered.
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Great interview too. Can't find a link to a recording which is a pity.
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When is the media going to pick up on this story. The guy is superhuman.
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And now I have a reason for such gloom - I just discovered my car was broken into last night and the prezzie for the wife is a gonna. Son of a ....
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Mind you, I need to give myself an upper cut for such Melancholy thinking about on Christmas morning while listening the kids Christmas music in the background.
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Someone drowned in a river yesterday but this was quoted from a councilor living nearby: 'He said it was a "tragic" and unusual situation to hear of someone drowning in the river.'
Also on TVOne news yesterday a body was found washed up at Muirwai beach - 'it was wearing a life jacket'.
Both items don't add much to the debate other than prove problems exist with water everywhere, as has been said, and people do drown in lifejackets, also said. There is still no drownings of boaties heading to shore in clam conditions this year.
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So the 99.99% who are sensible with pools like this now face either a big expense, a fine or deny their kids the simple pleasure of cooling down in the summer.
Responsible parents supervise their kids around water, whether it be the ocean, river, lake, duck pond or f**king paddling pool so shouldn't be punished for the minorities inability to use their brain.
I suspect most people won't pay any attention to these council twat heads so it won't make any difference other than increasing rates.
I can't believe so many people can't see how top heavy with beurocracy we are becoming.
While I agree that there is too much bureaucracy, and the 400mm thing is probably ridiculous for paddling pools and the like, pools and ponds are incredibly dangerous. I know of one responsible family who were visiting a farm and let their kids run off and play, as you do, and when a little chap didn't come back with the others they eventually found him in a pond, where he was stuck in the mud trying to get out. Story ended well, but could have been different. So I immediately went an filled in the duck pond on our property to a level of 200mm, and put a solid base in. Scary thing water.
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Reminds me of the boats we tried to build as kids. We never thought of polystyrene and could never understand why the 4x2 we used would't float. We weren't sophisticated enough to understand displacement I suppose. funnily enough, we did know to wear life jackets tho.
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Deafening applause being given in this house.
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Instead of the nice calm marina 500m away, which comes with a nice man in a tin to assist with the docking?
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Gutted to hear this. He's endured so much and is so close.