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Apparently she has a lifting keel. So if it was up, that would go some way to explaining the lack of stability. edit: Oh kestrahl I see you just said that, sorry!

Formentera isn't even that big, so getting round the other side should be (relatively) easy if forecast? Somewhere bigger like Majorca takes a bit more doing to get round the other side. The gulf is amazingly cooperative with anchorages for every wind in a small area, the rest of the world isn't so accommodating!

They do seem to have removed it (or at least moved it), which is too bad. Yes wetmaps is great, but the navionics sonar charts are much more detailed than the LINZ charts in many anchorages.

Pole or swing mooring? I'd imagine the motion detection would be going off all the time on a swing.

Locking just means more damage to the companionway when they force it.

"Steering failure" apparently. Remains to be seen exactly what that really means. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/06/interislander-ferry-runs-aground-near-picton.html

Gone. Lost or eradicated? https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/20/invasive-seaweed-quickly-eliminated-thanks-to-ngati-manuhiri-partnership/

They can. It's exciting.

At least an order of magnitude less capacity than needed, if true.

Noticed the obligatory loose headsail in shoal bay this morning. Seems like there's always at least one!

Just a gimmick without a roof. Will be interesting to see how the tech plays out though.

On the other hand, if it means that one can actually get a berth in Westhaven (as opposed to now), that might also change some of the calculations of potential boat buyers...

https://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/news/anchor-watch-rule-ynz-welcomes-sensible-new-interpretation

Oh and apparently the mokohinaus too https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/61843-Detection-of-Exotic-caulerpa-Mokohinau-Islands-map Does kinda seem like it must be everywhere if it's at the mokes.

I don't think that means it was detected in 2021. Though I agree it's odd on the map. For reference, here's Waiheke https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/59755-Exotic-caulerpa-Waiheke-Island-as-at-20-Oct-2023 and Kawau https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/59749-Exotic-caulerpa-Kawau-Island-as-at-20-Oct-2023

It's a tricky one. Why is under rahui but not under CAN? Not an ideal situation. The opinion of locals, as opposed to actual government rules, is also a grey area. If the "locals" were some rich a****** with a mansion on the shore who didn't want to look at boats in "his" bay, we'd all (rightly) tell him to get stuffed. That said, I probably will try not to anchor there. Mostly because it's not my favourite spot in any event though.

Hopefully there's still somewhere in the gulf we can anchor come next summer.

Presumably there's water at the new marina now?

But where to I wonder?

That sets a *maximum* (of 30 days), not a minimum, as it implies out of context. Zero would be allowed. In general, I'm a bit torn. Yes insurance inspections are pain in the * and I hate them, and insurance premiums only ever seem to go one direction (up, and recently by a lot). On the other hand, old derelict shitters coming and occupying your anchorages, and maybe worse sinking there, isn't something we as a boating community want either. See, for example, the issy bay hulk saga and the weiti example above. How to solve that, I don't know.

I'm told everything big under the bridge has two tugs. Obviously not guaranteed but a lot more redundancy at least.

Sail wear?

Looked like 9 or thereabouts. Rather a lot of near-drifting boats with kites up as we went over the bridge this morning. Some drifting backwards with the tide, from the look of it...

Surely that just depends on how you spec it. Hybrid cars can.