khayyam

Spark and oneNZ are just selling you starlink direct to your phone. It's not another network, just another way of selling the same one.

Maybe. But for now the starlink constellation is far ahead. Turns out competing in this space (literally) means launching 10,000 satellites... pretty significant barrier to entry. Hotspotting is fine when it works, but even say te kouma tends to be a dead spot inside and that's what 50k from akl?

Sad but true. The fixed costs are so high now (mooring, antifoul, insurance) that there's really no such thing as cheap boat ownership anymore. And once you're paying all that, most people figure they might as well put in a bit more $ and have a much nicer boat. (Or not doing it al all). Hence the bottom falling out of the market at the lower end. Still a few people at places like milford or weiti making it work but not nearly enough for all the old boats.

Great video. I feel cold just watching it. Definitely some interesting sail plans going on there. And as you say clockwork might have been looking for a bit less right about then!

A bit slow but loaded eventually. It's a great site. Really seems like LINZ should have their own version but there you have it.

I am so disappointed there's no video.

Eeek. Shelter and survive?

The newest edition is getting on now too. I guess the regular updates stopped? Doesn't matter for most things but some like stores and water availability do change.

Pickmere is north of BoI only?

Milford is looking a lot tidier these days, but still tidal access and depth limited. And tricky to impossible in a big NE. But I agree that mooring costs are prohibitive for smaller (cheaper) boats, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have a $20k boat that costs $10k/year to keep in the marina.

Orakei only has a fairly small number of 12m?

How many years in a row have been sh*t weather now?

Wow. Maybe pick up a lotto ticket along with that celebratory g&t!

F1 is their model, more or less.

Oh I don't doubt that it's there, and I'm not proposing ignoring the rules. It's just hard to see how those corners are really lower risk, rather than expedient.