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I'm a little confused but does this mean I have to paddle board to the Barrier?
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Yes we have been lumped in with jet skis as risky behaviour
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Will recreational boating come back under Level 3?
How about full access to marinas for maintenance etc?
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The one that annoys me most is the bloke at the Mokes. Bit of a favourite spot over Easter.
You are right not lots but more moving about today it seems.
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Lots of boats on the move today according to marine tracker
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Some softening of attitude at Kawau according to their FB page.
Fuel and water at the KBC tomorrow and you can exercise at Mansion House.
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Is Panama already closed to yachts? This Kiwi skipper talking a few days ago.
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I heard a couple of launches turned up at Pakatoa and went ashore for a walk. They were asked to leave, private island etc. A bit of a barney and the police were called. Both launches were fined, not sure for what exactly.
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Got ours unloaded before lunchtime yesterday. My guess is that the rule will probably change again. Our next shipment is pretty big and on the water ex China today.
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Some developments from the States around these issues from various sources.
All non residents were asked to leave Florida Keys last week.
That meant one Australian boat sailed 5 days to get to South Carolina to leave their boat outside the hurricane belt for insurance purposes.
Washington State has banned all fishing to "help meet isolation requirements"
Maine has waived fishing license requirements so people could get out and do something well away from crowds.......
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IT, Grant Robertson gave the go ahead to devan even for non essential on Firday.
They are concerned about both lack of port space and having enough empty containers to export produce from NZ.
We will send one guy in to do the MPI stuff, and another to go in later to drive the machines out, so no bubbles burst.
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I'm just pleased we are now permitted to open and devan containers. We have a couple arriving tomorrow which aren't "essential"
For a while it looked like they would sit in our yard until the end of the lock down.
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Having dived Great Barrier at the same spots for 40 years, without cleaning them out, there are still plenty out there this year.
In closer, different story.
However it seems the limits will change in a month or so.
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I picked up a mint life ring with Dive Cat on it about 2 miles SE of Horn rock on Saturday. Called Barrier radio but no one new anything about it
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Yep time to get going soon. We had Christmas on the other side of the Atlantic.
The Canaries are nice, Graciosa was a good first stop.
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Most inflatables, in particular RIBs bow steer badly. The cat style with pressure floors don't and actually track pretty well.
The limiting factor is then the rowlocks first and then the flimsy oars they give you.
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Ours was un-caged plastic rollers (well something hard that looked like plastic)
My cousin and I dropped the rudder on the hard at GH, nice clean tarmac.
And we lost one roller...........
Couldn't find it anywhere, so frustrating.
Later I got a message from my cousin that he had found it in his shirt pocket.
Be careful if you do it in the mud.
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Yep I have a True Kit Navigator.
The main plus with the "cat" design inflatables with the paddle board type higher pressure floor is the rowing performance.
So good that I have never used the outboard since I got it.
Also the light weight as I lift it up on to the roof.
The down side is the ribbed protection pads under the hulls which disintegrates to the stickiest mastic type crap you can imagine.
When I suggested they use something better the guy said use the UV cover.
A pretty average response to customer feed back I thought.
So we swapped the protection for a vinyl ourselves and much better
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Years ago we were trying to get my son to remember the word for crayfish.
"What does daddy dive for"
"Umm tools?"
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"Renewable" energy for hydrogen production will be here soon. Tuaropaki Trust and some Canadians will be using geothermal to produce hydrogen next year at Taupo. Hiringa and Ballance using wind turbines in Taranaki on much the same timeline.
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A diesel engine is designed to bypass fuel not required back to the tank. Because of this feature fuel burn is only loosely related to revs. It's load that matters.
If you want to get really flash you get a variable pitch prop and load the engine to the correct exhaust temperature. But at 3.1l/h who cares?
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Buying hydrogen is nearly as hard as plutonium in New Zealand at present. Hopefully that changes soon.
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Yes absolutely be happy with that. Perhaps the prop being way under pitched is also the "clutch" to get your big heavy bathtub moving.
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At 3.1l/h you aren't producing 27hp.
A good rule of thumb for non turbo is 20hphours/gallon. 3.1/4.5*20 is around 14hp.
In other words your prop doesn't have much pitch.
Boating now heavily restricted
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To any laid off pilots I have a new grader in my yard if you want to have a crack.
Looking forward to the announcements of the successful "shovel ready" infrastructure projects.