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Yeah, old news gets dropped off the radar, yet there are people all over the country living lives of varying levels of misery because of cyclone gabrielle and the floods that came a week or three...

As long as they use thread tape on their plumbing fittings an apartment can be OK, otherwise you might end up in the suds from 4 floors above.
As happens.

The velociraptors came back for a few more days, seem to be gone now.
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Pretty weird experience, completely wild birds..

Well there's one for the books. A team wins a protest, Alonso reinstated to the podium.

hemp and graphite is ideal for brass on brass etc or untapered stuff.
I don't see anything wrong with belt and braces thread tape on plumbing and neither do the plumbers I have associated with. But...

12 at night, 24 today.
But it's that other one..

It's crickets here , the last couple of weeks. My wife is taking it personally.
Cooler at night now, but today we wilted about 11 am. I consulted the humidity gauge , it said 80 %.

They aren't o rings though are they. Flat rubber washers/ seals.
And yes you do, as you fit the shut off taps as well.

Finger? thats muh boot ,man. Kiwi as Redbands gumboot.

Since the 'turkeys' have gone down so well, here's another shot taken not from a drone. ( well, not an aerial drone anyways)
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One of these birds is not like the other...

What sort of boat is it on the cover of that peeless magazine?

Oh we have them alright. Saw one ont side oft road yesterday while out on our day off. " look" , says I, channelling my turkey expert friend " a pheasant".

They're actually Golden pheasant juveniles, but if my buddy Suzy says they're turkeys then .......

A couple of unusual visitors yesterday. We've seen them time to time ranging in the driveway and on a trail cam.
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A friend announced that they're baby turkeys. She has a lot of experience...

That first photo has plenty to look at, it all looks very intuiative except for the rudder


As a small boat operator I use prop wash over my rudder all the time for manouvering, sometimes...

Caught this guy trying to nick my bike.
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At 14 or so I was naive and not fully aware of the man and his significance. My mother was pretty much in awe , ' yes, yes .. go , go....'

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Saving it up for later ...
Incidental, We were at a talk last night on "The defence of Northland".... measures taken to defend the place should the japanese arrive. I was at a table with a new...

I seem to recall that Ian's Patience( is a Vertue) was a gaff rig, modelled after Andrillot"s original.

I'm surprised Ian Wright's name hasn't come up yet. Patience. And Bruce who posts in the Antipodean thread has one too, although perhaps his is extended?
edit .. or freeboard raised ? Tui of Opua...

My guesstimate would have been how ever long a Vertue is, perhaps 28 ft.
But I see that isn't right.

I didn't spot the slip at O dark ,when I first read it. Its the kind of thing rife in this country right now but not as close to me as that is to you.
Is there going to be an emergency cutting to...

I really enjoyed that.

another 8 ft due in Mammoth ,we're told today.

I finally sacrificed the sapling which stopped me getting the mini tractor down into the low part of our section, I had to harden my heart to do it but needs must and all that.
The problem being two...

More like one of the J's to me.

Great job, I feel encouraged... maybe I should reconsider the green death afterall.

Might be a few more undiagnosed out there, very smart.
I presume thats your mainsheet winch on the bulkhead under the man killer, special handle?

There's plenty of good modern boats out there perfectly fit for purpose, countless.
That purpose might be as a coastal cruiser, anchor every night, but there are plenty of modern offshore boats too....

For Pam to turn comments off there must have been some negative comments( which might have affected a potential sale).
I don't think that boat knows what it is.

I've only been there once, we had the youngsters over here at christmas though. Took em fishing and they caught the biggest damn snapper I've ever seen, hopped the plane and went straight back to...

I noticed that one pop up, why on earth the advertiser hasn't posted any provenance with it is beyond me. Its like people who advertise a classic without its name.

Great job, very smart.

Terrific.

We've been getting stuff like that on our family chat, a sister and nieces/ nephews there.

Kotiri spent a number of years in one of the boatsheds in Herne bay. I used to look at her in the early 80's when she was still in a berth at Westhaven, but she went into the shed sjortly after and...

Ah, Hobbies, not hobbles......Not a knee joint thread then... I get it.

I'd like to see the whole video , rather than the paused shot.

Balia looking ready for business. ( but a halyard tweak for those spreaders wld be nice...)
No doubt on the job list .

You'll no doubt be aware of the general 'plastic' flame treatment for G flex.

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I had some nice shots of this boat sailing and at anchor ,perhaps 10 or 15 years ago. I don't recall all the details but first she was one boat and second she had the whole stern...

Ha, yep.
Went back just now, better light than yesterday
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See if the pic sticks....

I still have the 12 legacy GT I bought new.The last modern Subaru I drove annoyed me so much with its bells and warnings I swore never again. And living where we do we lose windscreens to road...

5 minutes ago fly by
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Dinner for 6 provided by the Toltecs one night, plus 2 more guests after. 8 in the cockpit...not bad for a Mull 30.

Summer arrived. This little schooner used to be a regular sight, was always very pretty and kept well. What a shock to see her like this.
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It's always social, we seem to meet up with 3 or 5...

Just the fact it was there, Bernadette, I picked it up from a rock pool. I notice there's a half coconut shell from the Lau group sitting in there too, and a bakelite light switch my grandaughter...

Swap ya...
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But I'm keeping the Vava'u god, the laughing polar bear cap and the copper wire from Minerva reef...

Some more boat work.
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Our house in there somewhere.

I was crew on a Javelin once, out on the wire and we ran into a wave.
"Cheesecutter" is the word that came to mind as my journey towards the forestay evolved.
That was enough for me, I went lead...