Steve Pope

Most business changes are predicated by Accountants, not necessarily based on reality or what actually works. The death knell of TBT was based on its effect in Marinas (in France?) where because of the large No. of non mobile hulls (most of the time) allowed concentrations of TBT to accumulate to the detriment of the residents on the bottom. Its dispersal on moving hulls is and was negligeable in the scheme of things. I remember being anchored at Santorini in another lifetime and seeing all the local Caique's anchored over a volcanic vent that exuded acids that definitely stopped any grow

Having used a Davidson M20 many years ago as "caravan", when on the road between sailing venues. I have often thought with a double cab ute I might just do it again, Waikarimoana???

I've seen a similar scene with 3 offroad bikes on a bike trailer, front end secure, rear end, not so much, the bikes weight will be adequate!! Yeah Nah!!

Outboard hand squeeze pump bulb works fine single handed, more accessible than the lever type that is usually half way down the crankcase, if installed with easy access in mind.

I would not be surprised, This is now an industry funded by MPI and the Regional Councils. My short experience at a meeting at the Whangarei NRC office to discuss Fan Worn and other non native invaders was mostly about who is responsible for the eradication and the best way to fund this. Largely, how much of the cost would water users (us) be prepared to pay. None of the people running the meeting (nice as they were) had a yacht / boat had any actual experience of maintaining a vessel, nothing about the uselessness of currently dumbed down properties of antifouling paints. They seemed to not r

I think that the "huge sea worms!!) are gone from Toot has to be bullshit! Marsden Marina, Parua bay, in fact all of Whangarei Harbour as far up as Limestone Island has them. B.o.I has them. Auckland Harbour board gave up on doing anything about them in 2010 + - . They are here to stay, whether we like it or not! There is a "native" version that they are afraid will be taken over by them. But the main concern is commercial, the mussell and Oyster farms. They are a filter feeder, they clean the water. There is now a small (but expensive) industry diving and recording dirty boat bottoms finance

save it for parts cleaning, if you do your own work.

Doesn't the seller have these, most "big" Birdsalls have been offshore, ( pigiron?) Check with the rego people and give them the NZ No. (if you have it) as they would have it on their paperwork. I know I re-registered my yacht after many years of it not being updated and they re-instated the original No. that it had been registered under.

BUT no charges from MNZ or of them using Health and safety as a back up?

I seem to remember a large motor boat that hit and sank a Classic yacht, injured the yachts crew, in Auckland Harbour, Wasn't he found not guilty???

Rocna, Excel, Manson Supreme are all excellent anchors, some ex Rocna users, now Excel users have nothing but praise for them, no roll bar, lighter for the same holding. But it is a bit like lap times in a car race, the fastest lap is perhaps 2x1000th of a second faster! All are good! Definitely recommend good Quality chain, I did it with 55m of 10mm on a Rocna, but at times would have been happy with more chain. Keep your back up anchors and perhaps a lighter kedge with maybe at least 10m of lighter chain before the rope? Chains ropes and Anchors are the go to, as Bad Kitty says. Oh and if yo

So she's a fan of worms? Mine was, and maybe still is, As per the words of on "ilkley moor bar tat:"

You are obviously not a gardener

We must realise there is an industry now set up to do these inspections, apparently ( according to NRC staff ) it is funded by MPI. When you look at the equipment, diving personal and recording staff on each boat there wouldn't be much change out of a million. Could end up as bad as being in redcone land.

I believe that AHB gave up on attempting to contain MFW (mediteranian fan worm) in 2010, It is a filter feeder, basically cleans the water, sure it will take over from the "native" fanworm just like the pacific oyster did to the "native" oyster. apart from this being a guaranteed thing to happen what is the downside?? Antifouling paint has been dumbed down to the extent that it is almost a waste of time to apply it against any and all marine animals / fanworms / crustaceans. The square barnacle, as I have recently found is doing extremely well in the Kaipara along with the tiny date muss

Not all SS's are non magnetic, depends on the application and manufacturer and the accountant.

No Scallops where I was, they were just curious that a sailing boat was in the Kaipara. Having to work the tides though, 20 minutes through the funnel (Tinopai) with the tide, 2 + hours against the tide on return, motor sailing, couldn't make headway under the head sail, Without the engine it would an anchor and await the change of tide.

I have since found out that the fisheries Dept. fiz boat is based in Whangarei, trailered to the Kaipara, does its run and is then trailered back to Whangarei

And of course you first have to have the better half onside when considering a composting toilet, some folk have found "i'm not sitting on that bloody thing" to be an important factor!!

There used to be a problem with Lectrasan loos not lasting the distance, expensive to maintain. That may have been once upon a time, or not???

One thing to take into consideration is the extra overall height of an Airhead toilet as compared to a Lavac or common pump type toilet. "Head" room can be an issue!!! crapping with your head at a 45° angle for a 5'10" male is not recommended. Short women and 4" + shorter males shouldn't have a problem.

As per usual we all have an opinion, MNZ are doing what they have become well known for. Using MNZ laws, or if they cannot find anything in those to hang their hat on they shift to the broad brush of Health and safety legislation. They are using "public" money, whereas the defendant (or ents) have to delve into savings / borrowings for defence. In some cases defendants have pleaded guilty purely to save themselves from going broke. White island for example. Lets see how this pans out before making judgements. 1 or 2minutes or 1 or 200 hundred metres difference and this may well have been a no

Probably 35 + - odd years ago there was a bare boat charter firm in the B.o.I. that had a very tidy "hard" dinghy that towed well and sailed even better. I had no need of a dinghy at the time so never found out who designed / made them. The mould is possibly languishing behind someones shed!

Kalispera, Te ka'niss, Is she a stretched Regardlesss?

You have nothing to lose, especially as you plan an overhaul sooner rather than later. do your sums though re the overhaul if you aren't doing it yourself, it is often amazing how the combined labour, parts, cleaners, and other incidental charges can get out of hand, and you will still have an engine with many old parts (crank, con rods, pistons? etc. etc.) and as all good English engines do, it will still leak oil, after all no leaks on an english engine means no oil. I am not in favour of the new breed of Diesel's they can be very finiky and easy to go wrong with such tight tolerances, espec