thevoyagekayaking

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Someone gave me a tandem kayak! It's a Sisson Southern Light, a very old design, and possibly older than me. It needs a few maintenance items, a few scrapes being painted over, and some new lines, but is overall in amazing condition.

The hull length is 6.2m, with the rudder adding further to that. I plan to take it out Sunday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I have a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE, which has POE built in, but your option would be the next simplest option.

All the Ubiquiti gear is very well priced, and dead simple to use, I plan to add some cameras at some point to the system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is a real shame, it sounds like they may have survived in the water for a very long time too, if they were alive when the bulk carrier was in the area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm well aware that I'm not the one doing the hard work on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the platform becoming more mainstream is a good thing, to an extent at least. At the moment we're kinda known for militant communists, tankies, and Linux evangelists, among other stereotypes.

This will definitely come with problems, of course, but it will also take some of the echo out of the chamber.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm glad this place exists, and I hope it continues to grow over time. Having a platform like this that isn't beholden to advertisers or the bottom line is incredibly fortunate, and I hope we can take a bite out the market share the more mainstream platforms have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I am so thoroughly over this cold, I'm glad we're now getting warmer weather at long last.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it's a slightly different game to board surfing as we're catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.

I think that's the inside of my pocket, I didn't notice that photo was in there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Chloe being ahead of both Peter's and Seymour as preferred PM must surely rankle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I did a trip up to Waihi beach over the "long weekend", leaving Wed. My car blew a head gasket just north of Taihape, and we ended up getting a rental and towing my trailer the rest of the way, which meant we arrived early the next day. I did two trips up the coast, and the third day was spent playing in the surf.

Now I need to work out the most cost effective way to get my car back home, and sell it.

Here's the GPS tracks and a few photos from the trip.

Thursday, coastal paddle and rock gardening. https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqN1DG9zG6

Friday, coastal paddle, rock gardening and a walk up a stream. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq

Saturday morning, surf practice. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYxAoEq

Sunday afternoon, surf practice and comp. comp https://www.relive.cc/view/vYvE2mAWBGO

It's been a great weekend, and I plan to be back next time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I've considered going the other way with our bathroom, and just having one switch for everything, as we almost always use the fan and lights all at once. Have you considered just having two switches, one for heat lamps and one for fan and light?

A smart switch just sounds like something to go wrong to me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of the things I really dislike about NZ politics is the amount of hyperbole and over the top language used, from both sides of the aisle, and I very quickly lose interest in what someone has to say if they talk like that.

If what you're saying is true, the truth of the matter is bad enough without them needing to exaggerate.

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