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    Life Jackets

    in MarineTalk

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    Dunno how many of you have slipped on a wet deck "going round the cans". I have. Now I wear a PFD (with a crotch strap).

    They're much more comfortable than in the past, so less excuse not to wear them. I insist on my guests wearing them in the dinghy too when we row out to the boat.

    I saw the Swedish 49er teams practising at Okahu Bay the other day, and apart from leaving their trolleys blocking the public ramp, there was at least one with a helmet on. Good.

    Get with the times. Some of the comments here remind me of people resisting the introduction of seat belts in cars.

    And the suicidal guy in the sailfeed link? What can I say? This. http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/lifejackets-lifejackets-and-sissies/

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    Looking for sailing tutor in Auckland

    in Crew Finder

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    You may have more fun, learn more and spend your money better by buying a small dinghy and learning to sail that first on your own.

     

    How I learnt to sail:

    https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/sailing/

     

    If you do go out as you envisage, the sailor you're with should give you a safety briefing and have a safety card:

    https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/storm-fantasy-sailing-yacht-safety-card/

     

    That said, I'm happy to take you out for free and see how we get on.

    kevinmccready@vodafone.co.nz
    32 Hawera Rd    -36.857270, 174.839280
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    Auckland, New Zealand
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    Window tape.

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Two quick questions:

     

    1. If you take a knockdown, then pop back up, without mechanical fastening what's to stop the window being sucked out as it comes back up?

     

    2. Would this tape solve my problem of water ingress in a couple of places where my toe rails are breaking down. If my last repairs don't hold, I'm thinking of removing the rails entirely and sealing somehow so that no water comes into the cabin or gets down into the balsa core.

    Biggest hurricane ever about to hit Mexico (200mph)

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    When the man expresses logic the way the man does ... My point was the broader one of a bunch of old gits on a sailing forum setting themselves up in opposition to the world's best scientists. It's ludicrous. I've got no problems questioning scientists or authority but doing so with loopy logic doesn't advance the argument. Sure they could be wrong but it would be like me telling Lydia Ko how to play golf. Naomi Oreskes puts it nicely, defining science as "organised scepticsm". Note the word "organised", not a bunch of random data points from some random blathering dudes.

    Biggest hurricane ever about to hit Mexico (200mph)

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Seems we've reached the tipping point. Heard the other day that even if we halt all CO2 emissions we're now on target for 3 degrees. More superstorms predicted. I'm considering a new form of architecture. Superstorm Bunker. But each time I plan for a certain gust strength, it's exceeded by another storm. Might invest in windfarms instead.

    electronic engines

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Seems the reference to Souter was a mistake? Is this git also a Q-West investor, having moved in on Rotorua buses recently? Here's some background on him.

     

    Homophobic religionist Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish businessman and philanthropist. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd and the Souter Charitable Trust. Souter has also been politically active in Scotland, and supports the Scottish National Party. In 1998, Souter described British northerners (who make up a considerable proportion of his customers) as "the beer-drinking, chip-eating, council house-dwelling, old Labour-voting masses." Souter lives in Perth, Scotland with his wife and four children. He is a member of the Church of the Nazarene, and attends Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Perth. In April 2014 he was included in the 2013 Sunday Times Rich List as the 118th richest person in Britain, with a fortune of £1.04 billion

    Whats wrong with the marine industry in this country.

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Someone mentioned the "real" point of this thread. For me the real point is asking Matt if he would like to help out here by instituting on this website some sort of objective system where we can rate the rip off merchants and idiots who don't know what they are doing. Perhaps a version of the broken trademe ranking system. Broken because trademe will remove true feedback if a rich git threatens legal action. So, not easy I know, but where this is a will .... 

     

    Matt, would you consider a new thread on this? Imagine the power to clean up the industry. neighbourly.co.nz runs a reverse version where people ask for recommendations for good tradespeople.

     

    What also gives me the shits is the meme that "he's very good but expensive and worth it in the long run". I fell for this one and got badly ripped off on a simple handshake job (nothing in writing) by a very well known operator in Auckland.

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