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On 27/04/2023 at 8:07 PM, Enlightenment said:
Just to let anyone who was interested know I ended up purchasing a motorhome and a
Pelin caribou 20 trailer sailer which in the end I think will serve me for my documentary work. Although a keeler would be lovely I backed off after finding out about the incredible amount of regulations that come with boat ownership these days. Thanks for the advice from the group, you helped me a lot!
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???
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38 minutes ago, Ex Machina said:
Have just finished putting in a new filtration system and polished the fuel in the tanks . Have two 280 ltr tanks which had a mild amount of bug , one worse than the other . One deck filler had a perished O ring letting in water ,that tank was worse than the other , tanks are connected so it spread via the connecting line.
Shock dosed both tanks with fuelright cause I’ve had success with that in the past in a bulldozer . Polished both tanks with a cheap 40 ltr per min fuel transfer pump running through a cheap high flow water separating filter and 20mm clear vinyl hose . Connected pump to tank drains and pumped it back to the tank inlets to get some end to end circulation going . The fuelright had been in the tanks for two weeks and had dissolved the sludge into a silt that dropped out into the water seperator . Ran pump for 30 mins on each tank but they were running clear after about 5 mins . There will be crap stuck behind the baffles but I’m relying on the new filters to catch that with help from some choppy conditions .
New filters replaced an old cav 296 water seperator . New filters are Racor water seperators with filters in the top half . Have set them up in parallel so if one blocks with crap the other can be brought on line . there is also a vacuum gauge downstream of the filters and before the engine to give early warning of impending blockage . I’ve also added a small electric fuel pump because bleeding the system is impossible single handed using the manual lift pump which is on the opposite side to the IP and injectors .
seems like overkill but I know first hand how bad the bug can get and it will always block filters at the worst possible moment . The quality of fuel is not always known now either with the imported stuff . when we start get a % of biodiesel added in the future the bug will only get worse , it’s causing major problems in the US and Europe already .
Basically copied this system but with a spaghetti junction of rubber hose because it fit the space better and I don’t have pipe bending and flaring tools etc . https://ph.parker.com/us/en/product-list/marine-fuel-filter-water-separator-turbine-series
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.
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1 hour ago, Addem said:
I just received an (unsolicited) email from www.marinepests.nz.
Their website says: Clean Below? Good to Go is an education campaign designed to help raise awareness of the role biofouling plays in the spread of marine pests.
It looks like a collaboration of regional councils in the upper north island, DOC and Biosecurity NZ.
The newsletter says that with Pier21 and The Landing closing getting a booking with Tauranga Bridge Marina over winter is a good option. Wow - if every boat in Auckland has to come down to Tauranga we'll need another hardstand.
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 realise that many of the haul out facilities no longer exist, and seemed unaware of the loss of scrubbing poles. I left them with a page or two of questions about how they thought all their aims were going to be achieved and some fundamental questions re currents, tides the huge amount of spores from just 1 Fan Worm, I was assured my questions would be answered, although not immediately. as the months go by --------------
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50 minutes ago, ex Elly said:
Lyttelton community acts to stop spread of huge sea worms
Local communities around Christchurch’s port are calling for urgent action to slow the spread of huge sea worms. “I can tell you now it’s catastrophic.
He described the limited cleaning infrastructure currently offered for boats in Lyttelton as “abysmal”. It was especially difficult for recreational vessels larger than 10 tonnes because the club’s cleaning cradle could not hold them.
Biosecurity New Zealand director of readiness and response John Walsh said the worms had been eradicated from other parts of the motu. “Tutukaka Marina in Northland, for example, we’ve had no detections there in five years after a local elimination effort and we think it has gone,” he said. “Picton and Waikawa Marinas in the Marlborough Sounds, we’ve had good cracks at it there... and have not been able to find any there for two years.”
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 financed by MPI. You have a fan worm you are not allowed to move except for slipping, cleaning and re-antifouling.
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save it for parts cleaning, if you do your own work.
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On 23/04/2023 at 7:29 AM, Reb said:
Hi All
I am planning to buy a Birdsall65. I need some documents for the registration.
Builder Certificate, tonnage certificate......if possible all plans - certificate concerning birdsall 65.Thanks
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.
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1 hour ago, kiwi_jon said:
St Clair-Brown was fined $200 which is the maximum fine the Harbour master can give
BUT no charges from MNZ or of them using Health and safety as a back up?
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10 hours ago, grant said:
MNZ have prosecuted recreational craft under this before.
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???
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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 you choose to use a swivel put 2 or 3 links on the anchor before joining the swivel,, takes away any chance of bending / breaking the swivel. which can happen if joined directly to the anchor.
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On 6/04/2023 at 5:28 AM, Frank said:
No but my wife is
So she's a fan of worms? Mine was, and maybe still is, As per the words of on "ilkley moor bar tat:"
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6 hours ago, Frank said:
I'm not a fan of worms, sorry
You are obviously not a gardener
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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.
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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 mussel, and doesn't seem to be affected by the brackish water from Gabrielle. Oh and the Kaipara snapper fillets are currently nice and pink. Local folk law says the white flesh snapper fillets as shown in the news are most likely from snapper that have recently spawned.
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On 1/04/2023 at 12:06 PM, Frank said:
Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear, I think the wing nut is SS so not magnetic.
Not all SS's are non magnetic, depends on the application and manufacturer and the accountant.
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10 hours ago, harrytom said:
With your probing for channels may if thought you were looking for scollies as it's closed too.
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.
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On 26/01/2023 at 11:29 AM, Steve Pope said:
I was stopped in the Kaipara, while doing a channel edge cruise, seeing and marking just where any off shoot channels were for future use. A flash (a state of the art, every bell and whistle fitted) $$$$ ?? fizz boat headed my way, they had to come alongside as my ears don't work so well when i'm sailing by myself. It was a fisheries patrol. 2 guys and a woman, they were surprised to see a yacht in the Kaipara, they didn't think there were any! I wasn't of interest to them as I wasn't fishing. Very tidy, uniforms etc. Nice and friendly, but I could imagine that could change rapidly if you had transgressed in any way. They then zoomed off to continue their patrol. I'm not sure where they are based, or whether they were all professional fisheries officers or a mix of professional and volunteers.
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
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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!!
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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???
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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.
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11 minutes ago, harrytom said:
Will add. Commercial vessels stayed in port or at the king's.but Lance appears to of adopted a Cavalier attitude and went for it.
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 non event.
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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!
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Kalispera, Te ka'niss, Is she a stretched Regardlesss?
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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, especially tucked away as they usually are on a yacht, something goes outside a particular setting and they shut down or run at a much reduced power, invairably just when it is critical that they keep running at full power. The Older generation Diesels, (Kubota for one)naturally aspirated marinised ones, (Beta, Nanni etc.) are a huge improvement, (no reaky the oir, for a start.) Amazingly reliable, parts available from tractor suppliers rather than from (much) dearer marine outlets. There are a lot of carpet baggers in the supplement industry, and they take in a huge amounts of money from people hoping to save money and achieve a cheap fix, buy now!!! and there's more, buy 3 and etc. etc. What could possibly go wrong.
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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 growth on their hulls. Anybody know of any vents (locally) we poor sailors could use.