Kevin McCready

And to highjack further. Easterly 30 headroom?

Neodymium magnets are incredibly dangerous and will fry any electronics they come near. The 100kg pulling force might be overkill. You could try a smaller Neodymium magnet or two in a stocking tied to a fishing line or light line, then follow it down once located. Needles and haystacks - good luck. Someone may also know about underwater metal detectors.

It's part of the NZ attitude I'm afraid. Our safety culture is waaayyy behind because some people view safety rules as government interference. It's also part of the knockabout (see what I did there?) tradition of 'she'll be right'. It also means people will have a go at doing something even if they can't. It's wonderful that they try but rather awful when they fail. I recently had my boat pulled from the water on a cradle. The yard owners had appointed new people who were "learning on the job". Damage to my boat resulted and I was out of the water for months instead of a few days. Even the re

MCP. THANKS. You've done a great service to us all in taking the time to relay all that!!

I wonder what short handed means?

Thanks Boots Much appreciated.

hoping to get a recommendation for someone to come to Okahu Bay hardstand to supply and fit 2 new D rings to my aluminium dinghy (fortunately I had a back up painter wrapped around the front thwart).

Good scrub with seawater. Repeat. Rinse.

ta. I'll take the 0%

"human rights PC wankery" ??? Tell me you didn't mean this.

Fuel is not a fixed cost. Likely too that other opex will bump up rescue costs ratio. To the extent that Cat 1 encourages a better safety culture, I welcome it. Seems to me that securing possible flying objects, including floor boards, cupboards etc, is a great idea.

I haven't commented because I'm biased and selling one. I've had a ball with it. And now that I've checked the other Easterly 30s on trademe I've just dropped the price. https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/auction-1347514608.htm

I did the liferaft in the pool training which was useful. I also did the five day course First Aid at Sea STCW95 at the Maritime School. The presenter was the brilliant paramedic Brent Palmer and I learned about Celox (powdered shell which stops bleeding instantly), the Bone Injection Gun (for putting in an IV drip), inflatable splints, and the artificial airway (i-gel LMA Laryngeal Mask Airway - a tube you just shove down an unconscious person’s throat which is specially designed to separate airway and oesophagus). We also practiced injecting and sewing on pigs trotters rather than use a

Thanks David for the Cat 1 response. I wouldn't set out without a liferaft. The other possibility in the stats (and I'm not arguing either way, just setting out some stats possibilities) is that the small number of rescues isn't enough to be statistically significant (ie not enough to draw firm conclusions).

David, I'd be interested to hear in detail how and why your boat differs from Cat 1. (BTW in your stats, you may have a sampling problem because within the NZ rescue area boats with NZ Cat 1 are likely to be more numerous. You may also have a correlation problem: correlation is not causation.)

Excuse me for recycling myself. https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/jobswealthtech-drone-ships/

“normalised unsafe behaviour” doesn't make you safe, if merely gives the illusion. Dunning-Kruger Effect. If they are too stupid to listen to your friendly advice, why should my taxes pay for their rescue?? Dob 'em in I say. It's got nothing to do with fun police and everything to do with reporting irresponsible stupidity, like car drivers illegally using a mobile phone and running me off the road and killing people on pedestrian crossings.

I'm not sure why any acid may not have a similar affect. Do you know the pH? Vinegar might work.

Have a friendly chat to them and offer advice. Tell them about Cat 1 rules. If they don't want to learn, alert the authorities.

They're only gin palaces.

A bit over a day at those speeds to get across the Ditch. With good weather routing .... Sign me up as a commuter.

Auckland Uni offers a free makerspace with lots of equipment for this sort of thing. Just roll up on the Symonds Street entrance (Engineering Dept I think).

I'm still unclear about what boat you bought? Could you outline your thinking on why you went for it?

I phoned the harbourmaster and pressed the button for urgent but could only leave a message. So I thought this forum may work quicker. The boat Franita seems to have a bow roller which is coming off. Its mooring line has jumped off and is dangling over the port side, pulling sideways and putting weight on a stanchion. I would have jumped aboard and tried to fix it, but I had a new person with me in the dinghy and the wind and waves were getting up. So if anyone knows who Franita is owned by, perhaps they could tell them ASAP. If it was my boat in such a situation I'd love it if