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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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Considering the number of time boats that ground there very few can't get off straight away. It's a very forgiving bottom.
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few weeks ago I was in southern ocean getting some stuff and while Greg was out back I wandered into the tent and saw it. He said "you can't see that". All I said was;"wow".
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You dropped your dente perniculus?
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Of stereo typical thinking. Same example applies in lots of fields not just sexism.
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I think the gender test should not be a question of actual anatomy but one of whether the person has the balls to sail those boats in all conditions.
In which case I'd be disallowed even though I pee standing up.
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Thanks Josh. We have some tylaska on board and the ones that failed seem to be no name junk. My fault. But when you see the price of the real thing.... gulp
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Right, weak spring might have been the issue. Lesson learned.
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I'd appreciate some feedback as to the reliability of snap shackles for spinnaker sheets.
On our previous boat (Challenge 29) our practice for dropping the kite when reaching was to ping the guy at the pole. We know have Pork Chop, an Elliott 10.5, and with the greater loads we find the Ronstan type clip (right hand pic) won't release easily. We've had the ring strip out twice. I like the spike type clip (left hand) but we had two of them spontaneously release while the Genniker was flapping away, which is not desirable.
So, question is: What is the recommendation for use on larger boats?
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Oops - Correction - Participating prize is courtesy of all our sponsors, especially Hempel and Linkup Paints.
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The annual Legends Regatta is on again this labour weekend at Great Mercury Island, organised by Mt Maunganui Yacht Club.
Entry Details are at http://www.mmyc.org.nz/legends/.
This is a great weekend event with start lines available from Auckland, Whangamata, Whitianga and, of course, Tauranga. The Whitianga start line is especially suitable for the trailer sailor who is looking for something different.
It's a social occasion as much as a regatta weekend with two semi serious short races on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and much socialising or fishing/diving time in the beautiful Mercury Islands.
There is heaps of spot prizes and a substantial main prize, courtesy of Burnsco.
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Last OB I bought was yam 15 and I stuck with the manual start and went to Aust on the difference in time and money. Lot simpler all round.
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And if a Harbourmaster has the power to do this then why the hell aren't they utilising this section when some of our "peers" in the stinkpot world set off in small ships, overweight with no lifejackets!
Case in point: two guys were rescued after capsizing a 5m tinnie at the maketu bar in the weekend heading out in "harsh conditions" to set a net.
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. And then even though he was safely anchored at Whale Island, they forced him instead to cross the "notorious Whakatane bar."
In a "gusty northeasterly" what is more. Not the conditions i'd choose to enter whakatane.
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Great vid and great course for an inshore 100 miler.
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. The only tricky thing I remember is trying to get the far end of the pole into the ring on a bumpy day. ? The kite pole thing I mean.
That's why we used a plastic tube. One person can slide it in while the topper is taking the weight. No clips required until the end of the day or someone in the cockpit can secure it while the foredeck get on with tidying up.
We've got a 4m pole.
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Did it on our callenge 29. Used a 180mm plastic drainage tube lashed to the boom. Quick and easy to stow the pole.
Looking at doing it on Elliott 10.5. Which has a long carbon pole.
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One of the reasons I have never had a keeler , apart from the fact I don,t like leaning over or sinking,
Can't say I'm keen on the sinking part. Hasn't happened to me yet. Am I doing something wrong?
is sailing really in decline? I know club membership is. But are there less sailors? Is this as a percentage of population or in absolute terms? Does petrol prices have something to do with it? Perhaps it just that sailing had its heyday in the 70's-90's and there are too many other things to do for leisure?
One aspect is certain, boats like houses are much bigger than they used to be. Who'd contemplate building a quarter tonner these days? Or 28 footer? I'm reading a book from the 70's where the common opinion was that 25foot was the perfect size for a cruising couple.
I've tried the trailer sailer and the swing mooring but I love the step on convenience of a marina. I doubt they are cheap to build.
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apparently 40-50kph
which is pretty quick
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/tsunami4.htm
That's what I thought. IT my point was that it's the volume of water that is behind it which is more significant than the height, which will change as it hits the shallows and the again as it lands.
As a lay person I have no idea if the 30cm is the height mid ocean, at the beach or as it washes through my house. So I don't know how to react.
Last time there was a tsunami warning, I think from one of the Chilean eargquakes, a host of people around the east coast went down to the beach to watch because they didn't comprehend that 1m or so of tsunami is a mighty dangerous beast.
Another ridiculous lifejacket article
in MarineTalk
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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.