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Of all the things I cast, Netflix works the best.

Sounds like you have scared the family by going out in 2m swell, and now are too scared to go out in half metre swell! You have a Ross 830 which is a lively race boat. But what you really should have got is a Reactor/Raven/Tracker/Marauder. Am I right?

Metservice says "Northeast swell half a metre." It doesn't really get any less than that. I would be more worried about the current strong wind warning (with a novice crew). But the wind is in the right direction, so maybe wait till Friday afternoon or Saturday morning then head off.

That looks like a different Cat 3 to what we have here. They are talking about Round Ireland being Cat 3 - whereas in NZ, the Round NI and Round NZ are Cat 2+. However a keel has fallen off a yacht here. In 2008 'Time To Burn' skipper drowned, but they were not racing at the time. However, YNZ still tightened up the safety rules regarding welded attachments. In NZ, an inspector can request the withdrawal of a keelbolt for any category (yep, even cat 5).

That boat doesn't even have sitting headroom. The only place I could sit fully upright was in the perspex bubble. I think he spends most of his time lying down inside.

Thinking of getting a GoodNature trap with "chirp" so it notifies my phone every time it kills a rat... https://goodnature.co.nz/pages/chirp

Different rules for rivers, lakes, and seas. The local councils set the bylaws.

There is a bunch of sailing dinghies at Rawene on the eastern side, just along from the Boatshed cafe (below Clendon House) and a ramp there.

Wellington. https://www.theracearound.com/

A Taupō man, fed up with the "soul-destroying" MIQ lottery, found a different way to return to New Zealand. Rob Burgess was part of a group that arrived home on a 56-foot power catamaran on October 22, but it was far from smooth sailing. The crew had to sail through a major storm to get home. "I hadn't even looked at the forecast. When I got home and told my friends from the navy what we sailed through they couldn't believe we sailed into it." A swell picked up before the storm set in and one and a half days in one of the non-sailors was seriously dehydrated from being continuou

VIDEO: Increasing risk of tropical cyclone impacting NZ next week The chance of an ex #TropicalCyclone impacting #NewZealand next week has increased. http://WeatherWatch.co.nz lifts confidence of some sort of impact from 30% to 60% based on modelling. BUT: Unclear if it will be a storm, or just a low. https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/video-increasing-risk-of-tropical-cyclone-impacting-nz-next-week

No anchoring in Tryphena, Blind Bay, or Whangaparapara till at least June 2022.

Is the reason they can't hold it in Auckland, because they have given away the 26 brand new chase boats? https://www.coastguard.nz/news-media/coastguard-great-barrier-first-unit-to-receive-new-4unz-vessel/ Should they have held onto them a bit longer?

Covid-19: Skipper sails past MIQ and into NZ with boatful of stranded Kiwis Nearly two weeks ago, a geologist, an electrician and a nurse got on a boat, hoping to sail out of Australia and home to New Zealand shores. “We had four practical people and practical people are what you need on a passage like this,” Mason said. The voyage itself was “a bit of a slog” as they battled headwinds for much of the trip, Mason said. But that wasn’t too bad, after contending with 4-metre swells and seasickness for the better part of the first four days, Fraser said. https://www.stuff.co.n

Auckland Tauranga race. Starts 1600hrs Friday 25 March. https://www.a2t.nz/

Have a talk to this guy: Compass & Sextant Specialists Address: 52 Bayswater Avenue, Bayswater, Auckland 0622 Phone: 09-445 3336

The Waiheke Rahui is now legally enforced by MPI. No gathering of crayfish, mussels, scallops, or Paua, for next 2 years. Govt bans harvesting shellfish in Waiheke Island waters https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/127127605/govt-bans-harvesting-shellfish-in-waiheke-island-waters-after-iwi-placed-rhui

Bay of Islands Sailing Week has just been cancelled. 😪 https://bayofislandssailingweek.org.nz/crc-bay-of-islands-sailing-week-20th-anniversary-postponed-until-2023/

I wonder how the boat painters in Fiji would have handled the unexpected turns?

Doesn't state whether you have to show vaccine pass to crew on a keelboat. But does state vaccine pass required to have a large prizegiving indoors.

So, do we have to wait till level Orange for yacht racing?

Spoke to neighbours in the marina yesterday. They spent Friday and Saturday at Blackpool, Waiheke. Said the bay was full of overnighters. Of course, they didn't try to go ashore.

So what foam did you use, and where did you get it?

On the other hand if he has had that mooring for a long time, and is currently boatless, but may buy one in a few years, then maybe he is doing you a favour letting you use it rather than just holding onto it and keeping it empty.

Tide Maps Hauraki.pdf Sadly the pdf only has 4 of the twelve hours.