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    ideas needed on anchor recovery.( lost)

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    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.

    Yachts no fenders coming into adjacent berths

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    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 repairers had a poor attitude to their own workmanship, appointing apprentices without supervision. I had to get them back three times and still the job wasn't finished. The attitude was that it was simple to finish it off and I could do so myself without troubling them. Welcome to our little islands at the bottom of the world. And many thanks for the heads up. We really need to lift our game.

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    D ring on dinghy

    in TechTalk

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    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).

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    Do cat one inspections do any good?

    in MarineTalk

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    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.

    Do cat one inspections do any good?

    in MarineTalk

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    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 skin stapler. Learning how to handle a dislocated shoulder was also great and CPR for the untrained is now 100 compressions per minute and worry about the breathing afterwards (having cleared the airway first of course). I’d recommend the course to all.

     

    And I recommend a First Aid kit with the above gear in it.

     

    And speaking of rescue, if you sail across the bigger oceans you are out of distance of rescue helicopters.

    Do cat one inspections do any good?

    in MarineTalk

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    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).

    Do cat one inspections do any good?

    in MarineTalk

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    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.)

    Protecting the inexperienced

    in MarineTalk

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    “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.

    URGENT - Okahu Bay boat Franita may break off mooring

    in MarineTalk

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    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 someone did the same for me.

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