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I especially liked the blast after it had come to rest, as if to say "fxxxk it"

Gear box is probably an overstatement on my behalf. There is a horizontal plate (anti cavitation plate ??) below the impellor location. Below that plate there is a 'bulb which has oil init and I guess some form of cog to change drive orientation from horizontal to vertical (shaft spins horizontally, prop vertically) - that's what I am terming a gear box. But remember these outboards have direct drive (motor running = prop turning), no neutral, no reverse, just go and whoa. To go backwards you spin motor 180 degrees. I might ring Murray I think, he seems to carve out a nice life from out

Thank you Wheels. Anybody else? I will say (and accept that I did not before) - it seems not to withdraw easily as most reasonable folk would expect.Even gentle (& I do mean gentle) persuasion from my old mans engineers hammer seems to make no difference. I have read somewhere that there were some models where you had to remove a circlip from the bottom of the shaft (i.e. inside the 'gear' box - not that this O/b has more than 1 gear). To get to it involved more stuffing around than is reasonable and I guess its fair to say the Yammy engineer who designed it may have had better days

related post too - anybody able to advise how to withdraw shaft etc as shown on photo? Yamaha 2hp with FUBAR impellor.

Wasn't Issy known as 'Drunks Bay' back in the days of olde? Story I heard was that the masters of vessels departing would often anchor there, while the portions of the crew regained their sobriety.

woops. source was NZ Newswire on MSN site. Who gets the award? the numb skulls that were rescued or the 'authorities' who have to think about whether to investigate. God knows how long it would take to decide if they should prosecute. Seems to me the authorities should take a concrete pill and do their job. If they don't, idiots will always act with impunity, and meanwhile those who do act responsibly get accused of wasting 'responders' time. I think the rescued people on this occasion should pay for it. No life jacket no excuse

Authorities are deciding whether to formally investigate an incident where three boaties without life jackets were flipped into the sea and had to be rescued.

Yeah I found that too. Glad no one was hurt it didn't sound too good

Anybody know anything about this? Supposedly yesterday in Auckland one of 2 (?) cats got it wrong Not sure if I am being mislead but a mate down country tells me he has seen pictures

Buggger. Nice to hear 'good' news story involving boaties for a change though isn't it. This guy clearly organised and equipped properly. Sad way to end your trip and hopefully insurance will replace the ship.

I wonder did Earling regretted any of those decisions, or indeed if his priorities were listed correctly?

I thought that young woman was never found? And no trace of either. All very odd. But back to the topic - buyer beware if you ask me. Maybe the potential buyer is a super gung ho boat guy, a kind of maritime Bear Grylls? Hard to say without a link to the auction Brendong - you haven't said if the vendor is maintaining it could get to the south island or not.

This is the sort of crap that encouraged me to move out.

jeeeez that's donkey deep

John - did u say your old girl drew 6'5"? I thought Garden Cove was out of my depth now because I am 6'3" (I'm a 'modern classic' as they say at Mahurangi)- I would love to go in there again, its such a gorgeous bay.

On the way in that is.

from my recollection you go to the starboard side of the exposed rock.

Why should we be surprised? Oil barons and governments worldwide have been gouging our wallets for decades and we all know there is a plan behind their misbehaviours (the old "how can I line my pocket out of this and screw the rest of you" plan). Reported today on MSN (I saw it today is what I mean) that Bloombergs (whoever they are & I have no idea about that, or their credentials) warn another oil glut approacheth (oversupply leading to price crash), and I think they intimate that it is part of a strategy to undermine the oil industries 'boogie man' i.e. electic cars.

Not that I disagree with that no nukes decision AJ, but I think its fair to say we've been paying for it ever since. It was worth it. Although they got their own back on us by way of "Survivor" and its ilk.

Or.... round up all the crims and rat bags that we have been given back of late by our west island cousins, load them on the ship, set it off westwardat full noise. Another convict ship arriving shouldn't ruffle their feathers.

Hopefully just a reset but we will see.All I can say with confidence is that it used to work just fine and that I didn't mess with it. I'll call next week Matt

Thanks IT - Weiti is home these days and hopefully I am about to become a member of that revered establishment - as long as Nevenka doesn't tell any lies about me that are believable it should be in the bag! I think you are right about the meter ID - cant recall exactly but it sounds similar. Was on the ship when I bought her and it has always just worked. I'll give you a call one day shortly maybe later in the week. It would be nice to sort it as I just get annoyed by these things.

Wheels what would you say about this - I have 6 year old deep cycle house, and start batteries, both FLA, charged thru BEP VSR system and monitored by BEP meter that shows battery voltage, capacity (in a/h and %), and charge rate. It seems that the meter only monitors the house battery capacity, but it reads both house and start voltage, and charge rate obvioulsy only when alt running. The meter reads V & AH even when batteries are switched off. I have regularly over the past couple of years found the house battery discharging at 0.2A with everything off, batteries off at isolator, sw

Pacifier may be onto it. I had a split in one of my exhaust lines and the amount of water was distressing toput it mildly.

Just a word of warning to anybody using the Weiti - today I came into the river at about 4pm when the tide was still pretty low. I draw 1.9m and so I was crawling alongat a knot or 2 at most. Madly gesticulating Asian fisherman on north side just past the cable marker drew my attention to his fishing line that had been cast across my path, and so astern I went while telling him politely he'd better wind it in because I could not turn around - he did so but didn't seem too enthralled.. I had gone ahead again and within a few seconds heard the distinctive noise a sinker makes when it