Kevin McCready

Ta for responses. Hey lateral, so your mates finished stashing the drugs in the keel while you kept the cops busy. Love it. Hee hee.

Tower Insurance wants to up my premium from $355 last year to $474 that's 33% up. Ideas?

I nearly bought a Contessa 32 a few years ago, but we couldn't agree on price. I read they were known as a wet boat, but certainly offshore capable and nice to have encapsulated keel. Not sure they are very roomy for four people.

In priscillia''s vid the owner said in the comments section he was towing a rope with a loop. 300 ft long I seem to recall.

I'd get some really expert advice but my initial thought would be to leave it alone; I think the oxidized layer may in itself be a protective coat.

Thanks. That worked! I won't tell Joanna what happened on her new stove top.

Any tricks to getting the rowlock over this very hard rubber-plastic. And I hope karma comes to the person/s who stole my oars.

LOL. An old article from 2004 by a coastal engineer with a vested interest in mangrove removal.

I don't know how many Standard Deviations it was away from the norm, but all forecasters I heard said it wasn't normal.

Very unusual this late in the season. More extremes with the Sixth Extinction.

Ta for the update. A quote from the article: Kaho, the Tongan-Kiwi poet who left the 2016 voyage early amid safety and bullying concerns, believes Koning's philanthropic work should not be a shield. "There are people like me who see him as damaging and someone who needs to be stopped, and there are people who really buy what he peddles which is this white saviour on a yacht in the Pacific, helping people," she says. "If you're not looking at him saying 'this guy is spouting a lot of sh*t,' you're buying it." I'd be interested to hear what the paediatrician and Stuff health columnist D

Puff, I'm a historian. I'm not sure what you mean. Can you be specific and give some examples.

Syllogism school anyone?

Good stuff. Thanks David. I hadn't heard the 60% of hull speed advice before. I get my guests to learn to heave-to even in 5 knots of wind - one more MOB technique for the armory.

early advice if you only want to receive and not transmit AIS was "If you have a laptop, a GPS and a VHF radio. Than you already have 99.9% of the hardware for AIS reception.......Don't duplicate, just add a small circuit to your vhf." How does this advice stack up these days?

Kirsty Johnson's experience with toxic misogyny in NZ. I'm sure none of these attitudes exist in this thread. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-05-2018/confirmed-there-is-no-toxic-masculinity-in-new-zealand/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12053187

If Branson is your pin-up boy, I rest my case. A man like him paying for women's company is pitiable. Is he in jail yet for his anti-consumer actions in UK rail and insider trading in NZ? He got access to confidential information that NZ online casinos would be legalized, and then used it to make millions. Just the sort of person we can all emulate.

Stereotypical beliefs about the sexes reside in a specific part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. I don't like sexism and think it needs to be stamped out. And as a man I'm taking a stand with the #MeToo movement. Reform your ventromedial prefrontal cortex if needed, and always keep it in check. https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/lucky-male-feminist/

Thanks. Interesting. So real increase might be closer to doubling (with canal toll unknown), rather than order of magnitude.

David, the link said that that didn't include pilotage and other charges.

David, only that situation.

If you take pilotage fees and other charges into account, what's the total % increase?

Aleana, Fish is right (except for the irrelevant comment about public funding). I'm happy for MetService to err on the side of caution. Better Safe than Sorry.

FFS. Go look!

From Berrimilla website: In the log of 20th September, 2005, Pete answered the question How many injuries did you get when you went overboard? I didn’t hit anything when I was catapulted overboard, it was quick and clean one second I was standing on top of the boat’s cabin the next I was in the water. ... The MOB recovery tackle recovery sling with its sling (not the same as the Seattle sling) has been retrieved from the lazarette and is now set up across the coachroof just fwd of the mainsheet track. It is designed to be snap-shackled onto a strop fitted to the boom (and now in place) o