khayyam
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Narrowly, it'll be good to have it gone from izzy. And derelict boats are definitely a (growing) problem, so something will need to change.
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Yeah I'm aware. Depends on one's definition of "easily" and "safe". A roll, for example, is uncomfortable but probably safe? In any event, people seemed not to be using that clause.
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Saw that in omakiwi last week. Wasn't sure whats going on! Glad they're doing something, given the CAN. There were 50 boats on opunga in 20-30 SE with omakiwi off limits.
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Yeah that's what one of the locals said -- happens sometimes when the water is particularly warm.
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The kids definitely got them in Te Angamate, and I think also in Otaio and Opunga. (They only come up some hours later and there was so much swimming some times it was hard to tell!). Switch to looser fitting togs possibly helped...
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So we've just come back from the bay of islands, which was generally great, but the kids got nailed by something in the water -- dozens if not hundreds of bites/stings/rash. Anyone else had a problem this year? Never been a problem before, BoI or Auckland or anywhere in between.
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Good to know. I can imagine that if you run the batteries all the way down, yes, it's going to be hard to get topped up again just from a DC outlet with the motor running. (Unless you motor a lot more than we do!). But if you do 300m to shore and back, and then charge for an hour the next time you motor, that might be enough to get back to where you started.
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18ah @ 12v = 216 wh. In crude terms, something like 200ml petrol equivalent maybe (depends on engine efficiency obviously). So I'd say that if you're only getting 400m of travel on the dink then you're not getting anything like those figures. As guest says, lfp is very different from lead acid in terms of discharge curves so I'd second the guess that they're far from fully charged. Mains charge seems like the best test.
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Atmospheric pressure won't change the tidal streams much. 1hpa pressure ~ 1cm tide. So predicted tides are going to be the main thing by far for the streams.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-swirling-whirling-mesocyclone-caught-on-camera-over-auckland/Z6I7KOHK5RE3PL7GWQP4TTMOZM/
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The good news is that ICC is not difficult. And indefinitely renewable just for a fee every so often. We did one some years ago to charter in Spain and keep it current for possible future charters overseas. No need in NZ of course.
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I was wondering that too. Some of the other no-insurance mooring areas seem much less dangerous to me.
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eek Yeah I guess this angle (a touch S of E) is much worse there than the more usual NE?
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At a guess I'd say much more important to designers of production monohulls is the interior volume.
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Moving it out of the sh*t seems like a perfectly reasonable decision. Sure it's fun to watch the start from devo, but surely it doesn't make much difference to the race itself.
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A little hard to believe the modelling is tested under these circumstances. I imagine they are testing as well but it's unclear what is a modelling result and what is a testing result, in terms of what is available publicly at least.
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Actually plenty of golf courses heading for closure too.
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https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/05/new-launch-sinks-after-hitting-rocks-near-whitianga/
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Why are you replacing it? 26kg vs 39kg is a big difference for lifting on and off the back, imo.
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We shall see. Foiling had certainly made it into windsurfers and wings for the hoi polloi. Why not larger?
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Anyone know who's this moored boat is? (Torbay)
khayyam replied to funlovincriminal's topic in MarineTalk
I'm sure I remember someone telling me about a boat that came off a mooring there in an E/NE blow and ended up what seemed like halfway up the cliff when the tide went out. -
Anyone know who's this moored boat is? (Torbay)
khayyam replied to funlovincriminal's topic in MarineTalk
Yuck. I'd always imagined those moorings were really only tenable in the summer. By which of course I mean real summers, not the last one! -
80s for sure but exact year? Dunno. See if you can get hold of a copy of this: https://www.abebooks.com/9781869560461/Classic-New-Zealand-Yachts-Four-1869560469/plp At a guess I'd say the SR26 is in there but can't remember for sure. Auckland library has it.
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Yup, proposed at least. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018897978/whangaparaoa-locals-oppose-getting-rid-of-often-cancelled-ferry
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I'm shocked. Just shocked. Who could possibly have imagined this fate?
