thevoyagekayaking

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[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.

If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that's significant, but it's definitely interesting.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suspect they're just seeing big bull deer or a Wapiti.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think I've heard about this dude, he's basically a benign version of a conspiracy theorist.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm very much on the same page, pics or it didn't happen. If there really was a moose population, there would be prints, poo, antlers, or some other evidence.

Instead, we have a number of sightings, almost always by people from areas where moose live, but no photos.

And I believe the fact it always seems to be Americans or Canadians is significant, perhaps they're more likely to think moose when they see a shape, rather than a NZer, who would assume it was a deer?

 

What do you think, are they still around?

I do notice all these sightings seem to be from tourists, and they never take photos.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if anything else will be made public.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There might be an incident report, if I have some spare time I'll go looking for it.

 

I'd love to know what actually went wrong here, and what products they were using.

It's remarkably easy to get smoke and flames when you screw up mixing resin, entire buildings have been lost due to mistakes like that.

 

There's a large number of invasive species in NZ that could have been eradicated, had decisive action been taken early on to remove the infestation, including a number of marine plants, so I'm glad to hear in this case we are making the effort and trying to eliminate this pest outright.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And everyone else on that frequency, which would have been a few people if this was broadcast on 16.

 

Pretty impressive for Stabicraft that a 300 kg dolphin can crash land in the boat and not damage anything.

 

It sounds like there are options for controlling this weed, the question I have is, why don't we bite the bullet and eliminate it completely? It's something that's been done successfully before with aquatic plants, so why not here? Why wait for it to spread?

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 months ago

The amount of new townhouses in lower Hutt is incredible, most notably along Cambridge terrace. Hundreds of them just along one road.

I believe there's a lot being built along the river as well.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A sit on top is considered self bailing, so no skirt needed. The paddler sits above the waterline, and there are holes through to the underside of the boat.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's not particularly common, but mostly because beginners tend to be out on sit on top boats. Although there was a fatality in Wellington Harbour a few years ago, on Christmas eve, where the paddler had a sit in boat with no spray skirt.

It's also good information for a sea kayak with bulkheads, you won't flood the boat completely, but it will be less stable.

 

I got to be in a safety video!

This is a short video on why a river boat isn't safe to take out on open water, why a spray skirt is essential, and what happens without the right gear.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They would pick a new one every sailing, if that's the case.

 

As per title, does anyone know what they're up to?

 

A wave park heated with free (to them) heat from a data centre. This is seriously cool.

 

I work with fire alarm systems for a living, so it's fascinating to see a building get so bad it is shut down entirely by the fire brigade.

No BWOF since 2017 is just incredible though.

 

This was my weekend on the water, Makara to Titahi Bay Sunday, and a Kapiti island circumnavigation Monday.

These are both very tide dependent trips, so required a reasonably early start to catch the tide.

Both were great trips, and we were very lucky with the weather.

 

Saturday, the Rangitikei river.

I forgot to start the recording until we stopped for a break, but this was a great section of the river.

Sunday, the Blue Pools section of the Tongariro

A big step up from what I'm used to paddling, this stretch is at the upper end of grade 2, and I feel I learned a lot paddling it.

Any questions you have, feel free to ask.

 

This is a trip I did a few months ago now, from Makara to Owhiro Bay on the Wellington coastline. I've only done the trip once before, and the trip is tide dependent and requires meticulous planning, tides can run in excess of five knots along this coastline, so it's important to have them working in your favour. The tidal flow gave us a big push, I'd guess taking at least an hour off the trip.

I've also got a Cook strait crossing one I will dig up.

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