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1. Double check that you have it set to "International
2. Use channel 64 for inner gulf, or , from Gulf Harbour, channel 60. Do a radio check with coastguard radio- they are happy to do it.
3.Technically, we should all have VHF licences, [ and you CAN do that online] but... Coastguard would rather you use the radio for safety even if you haven't got a licence yet. I can't see any way that anyone can chase you up anyway.
Merry christmas
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How was the Kaipara Bar in a yacht? which entrance did you use?
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Hey Ballystick,
I repurposed/rebuilt all my system last year, and simplified it. I have two spare diverter valves if you can use either one of them. They are not the same shape as yours, see photo. I'm in Auckland north shore.
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I've got a pair of similar, but the two straps are even, they are just under 10cm long. If you can use them, they're yours
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I guess because the reality is, that if it does all go to custard, you WILL call for help- who wouldn't- and then others have to put themselves at some risk for you. Captain Cook didn't have any options.
Having said that, CAT 1 contains some really pedantic and stupid things which have nothing to do with safety. It would be better if CAT 1 remained to be used by the racing fraternity, and we had a separate, basic safety scheme to check that you were OK before going offshore. I met a guy a few years ago who said he was off overseas in his H28, and when I asked him if you could do nav, etc and if he had a liferaft, he replied "no- I've got a hand held GPS, and a dinghy.!
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gone to junk. Now to buy and install a fridge kit.🙂
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Last Time I had a problem I was directed to a small office in Laurie Collins at Westhaven. He seemed to know what he was doing, but whether he is still there after Covid or can do anything, I don't know.
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I've just got round to replacing my engine driven fridge with an electric. The compressor was working fine until the seals let all the gas out.
I'm about to junk it, but if anyone can use/recycle it or its bits can be used, its yours for pickup. Pickup Bayswater. It'll go to the tip next week.
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I can supply some information here, as my son did an experiment as part of a class Science project. He used West System, which is nominally 5:1 ratio of resin to hardener. He then glued standard butt joints together with varying mixes, ranging from 1:1 to 10:1 ratios, and then measured the breaking point of the joints.
To my surprise, there was little difference until the ratios were well away from the norm. All joints from 3:1 to 8:1 were of equivalent strength. I think that there is a fair amount of leeway built in for us.
Of course, I have no idea how the ratios would pan out over time or indeed with exposure to the elements, particularly u/v.
I don't think you should be too concerned if you are slightly out.
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I replaced my Autohelm masthead bearings for the same problem. If you need new tiny ceramic bearings, Greg at Gofish in Onewa road has them, apparently they are the same as the bearings in some spinning wheels. --- I ruined my first pair of bearings because I lubricated them, it actually slowed them down.
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88 NOrwood road; Bayswater
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I have a "new" Manson 35lb anchor. It's new, as in, I have had it sitting in my boat and never used it. It's too heavy for me to use these days, so if you want a new anchor, old style, its yours for 50 bucks and you pick it up.
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If you want to assist in eradication, use 'em for bait. I take a bucket of them off my marina berth, then just squeeze them out of the casing , stick on hook. Fish like them!
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And I guess if, like most of us at my club, you do your own antifouling, it might be a good idea to take a dated photograph of the newly done antifouling before you go back in the water?
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Yes, it's a good copy or v/v, says CEL on it, guess that stands for Chatfield Engineering LTD. Anyway, it's off, and the new one in. Glad Chatfields is still going, they're a good bunch.
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Can't answer your question, but.. would be worth a call the harbourmaster. They would be clearly in breach of the local maritime laws if they were discharging this close to land. It's time it buggered off anyway.
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Thanks guys - its off, holesaw three quarters of the way and then a sledgehammer did the rest. A couple of marine ply discs will fill it. Everything was epoxied in and hidden. There was not outer flange, they had simply set the bolts in epoxy a la West System.
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Hah! You're a hard case! The diameter of the outside flange is nearly 4 inches, 95mm, so I'll try to keep it smaller if I can. It's less to fill and then put a new hull fitting in. Although,in the end I might have to go big.
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Thanks - that'll work, but only once I have managed to remove the coach bolts and the outside flange. Then, as you say, bung and hole saw makes it easy.
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Hopefully someone has done this before.... The bronze seacock on my Lotus is now 35 years old and is starting to show signs of dezincing- patches of pink and the internal cone is badly pitted. I don't trust it anymore.
I've looked up the diagram of how it is put together and the outer flange is held by coachbolts through the hull to the inner flange. it is of course put neatly away in a cupboard under the sink in the toilet, and therefore there is no room to swing a hammer and drift. The tube that goes through the hull may even have been epoxied in place for all I know.. see pic.
I realise that I am going to destroy the thing to get it out, and all I can think of at the moment is to punch and drill the coach bolts out from the outside.
If anyone has any tips etc ?
If it won't come, plan B is to block it off and put a separate skin fitting alongside it, but I'd prefer to do a 'proper' job.
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It made me think about other tragedies when people have got trapped under an upturned boat, and were unable to get out because of their lifejackets. I wonder if we should have a quick release on lifejackets. I know that I would not be able to get out of my lifejacket in a hurry.
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I thought that the responsibility for Auckland Harbour moorings/ Auckland Harbourmaster etc had been changed and transferred to Auckland Transport. Is that still the case? If it is, then I guess Auckland Transport is a CCO, and that means there is no control by council effectively. Just curious in case I need to know who to contact?
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Photo tomorrow
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Pix of the spring, one each side.
VHF radio help
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Yep- they will, but callsigns have nothing to do with VHF licences. So- you can have a callsign, which is a good idea anyway, as it a] identifies your boat [as 130 plus boats on the gulf are called "kingfisher",] and b] if you don't have a callsign, they will give you a temporary one to identify your vessel until you do.
Coastguard are not interested in any enforcement, they are only concerned about your safety. So feel free to call coastguard radio, set up a trip report [ or use the free coastguard app ] and be safer. Coastguard do not report people for not having a licence etc.
eg as I have clearly heard several times over the radio. ---"coastguard radio - this is [ for example] bluebird". Response - " bluebird- do you have a callsign. NO, no callsign. "Bluebird, until you get your own callsign, we will allocate you a temporary one,. Where do you normally launch [ etc] "bayswater- your temp callsign is "Bluebrid - Bayswater, go ahead with your trip report.
easy. Doesn't have to be an emergency.