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Sadly that was the case with Essence, they were in shorts and Tee shirts the day before they came to grief. That being said I was a bit surprised when they left Fiji because the outlook was not great for their arrival off the NZ coast.

I do not see bicycles or horses registered (just to pick 2 examples) and there are far more injuries and deaths associated with these than pleasure boats. Rehab, you know as well as anyone that these sort of taxes, after the large bureaucratic cost is deducted, never finish up where they were originally intended. Road taxes are supposed to be used to develop roads but they are being diverted to all sorts of other transport expenditure with road development and upgrades taking a back seat. https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/105249934/how-your-rising-fuel-taxes-will-be-spent

if you have them

Dashew is/was a glider pilot and not short of a $$ so the sitting harness probably came from the aviation world

Getting chucked across the cabin is a major risk and the current breed of wide European boats are a problem in this respect. Re the query about seat belts, never seen them on yachts but interestingly Dashew fitted both sitting and bunk harnesses to his FPB series powerboats

This storm was very concentrated and boats outside approx 100NM circle did not see more than gale conditions. A mate of mine was on a Cav 45, they were just in front of the storm and had a tremendous sail to Tonga under poled out genoa. I would be a bit doubtful about the "sailed right through this" sounds more like they were in front of the storm. Steve Dashew has made all his books available for free download here https://setsail.com/free-books/ in the "Mariner's Weather guide" there is a very comprehensive review of this storm. There is a discussion about rescue of the crews

Biggest lesson reading the book was the deep fatigue everyone experienced. We are fortunate now to have much better weather information but even that does not make us bullet proof. The Monowai rolled beyond it's official limit of stability, good job the Naval Architects left a bit of fudge factor in the design. Ramtha, the Aussie cat, drifted around for a couple of weeks and was then spotted and towed in relatively unscathed. Makes you think that the best strategy in a cat in this weather state is to get the sail off early and go into "raft" mode either on a drogue/para anchor or jus

BK, I think you are being a bit unkind to Gib Stoppers there, most of them take some pride in their work. Really feel for anyone stuck with one of those cats, absolutely disgraceful what went on!

the wind surfers in Shoal Bay sure were having a blast when I drove past early this afternoon 😃

I was talking to Barry Jones today (we are marina neighbours) about edging on plywood (I have a plywood locker door that has sucked up some moisture as it does not have edging on the end grain) , he said that treated timbers can still go soft over time if they are in a damp/wet environment. He said heart kauri was an exception and as we know even it can be susceptible to dry rot if fresh water gets in its end grain. Des produced very good designs but he did not supervise the construction of boats built by others. There are plenty of Twilights (and other wooden boats from that era) around

I will just repeat my closing comment to Dan_Ger in a PM - Caveat Emptor. In the case of Balvenie a prospective buyer needs to have the survey undertaken by a surveyor very experienced in this type of construction.

depends what timber was used in the construction of the hull

HT, ref different coloured fuels I think you mean the UK which the EU Stasi used to get really upset about https://www.crownoil.co.uk/guides/dyed-diesel-fuel-guide/ I never saw diesel with different colours in Australia, when I had my launch there I had an off road users certificate which I had to show the marina where I fuelled up. Please do not suggest boat registration, also lived with that in Australia, it was just another tax.

that Townson unfortunately has some problems which is reflected in its price. It is being advertised as built by Barry Jones, this is not strictly correct, Barry finished it off - the hull was built by others, all as described in Brian Peet's book about Des.

if I remember correctly there were originally 1, 2 and 3 t rates. Then I think it was Cullen who zapped the 2 t rate pushing most into the 3 t rate and then under Nats it was changed to the current all paying the 3.5t rate.

we never seem to hear much from these guys https://ayba.org.nz/ but I know they do quite alot of lobbying in the background, particularly when the council comes up with another brain fart

when you see the header on their newsletters "Dave's Desk" it just sums up their arrogance. The worst thing is they are competing with their own members, notwithstanding the fact that Akarana had their (recently completed) expansion on the books for years, they have still tried to push through their own facility at Takapuna

1. Visiting back of the Barrier in January 2. Trip up the Mahurangi River to Robertsons for haulout!

per comments above there are quite a few variables affecting consumption: no of people? ambient climate? califont? (heavy consumer) quantity of baking ?(another heavy consumer) microwave oven available? On our 5 mth island cruise last year 2 x 9 kg bottles were used until we departed Noumea for NZ. There was still some gas left in the bottle at Noumea, but I changed to a full bottle prior to departure as I did not want to have to change at sea - my gas bottle locker is accessed via a transom door. This was for an average of 2 people, tropics (except for the

My original comment I understand the majority/all of these patient transfers were residents from Waiheke. Coastguard were called to do this as Deodar is out of the water and Lion has an ambulance bay. Only responding to the suggestion that they may have been off boats, not suggesting that all 9 were COVID related. Remember I subsequently wrote to read the press release carefully.

just received my reply: All nine emergency responses were medical evacuations from Waiheke Island. There are a range of different reasons why Coastguard has been tasked to attend these call outs. As stated in yesterday’s media release, six of the nine medical evacuations were for confirmed or possible Covid-19 patients. so why did they not say this in the release?

we obviously have the same broker. Interesting question for liveaboards.

I have sent the following email to Coastguard's communications manager: Coastguard issued a media release on Tuesday 21 April, which included the following statement: During the Lockdown period our volunteer crews have been involved in nine emergency responses, including six urgent medical transfers of confirmed and possible Covid-19 patients to hospital As a boatie and Coastguard member I would be interested to know the general nature of each of these 9 responses. In particular in the case of the medical transfers I understand from another source that these were transfers

source is a CG crew member. Waiheke is part of Auckland DHB so for isolated cases we are not being told where they come from CG often undertake patient transfers when Deodar is not available, I understand they are reimbursed for this cost - it is basically a taxi ride. I would speculate that the helicopter is not used because they want to have it available for serious incidents and do not want to run the risk of infection from possible virus patients. I am told in order to maintain distancing the CG crews did not assist (as they usually do) the ambo's to load/unload the patients - th

I understand the majority/all of these patient transfers were residents from Waiheke. Coastguard were called to do this as Deodar is out of the water and Lion has an ambulance bay.