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.
They would pick a new one every sailing, if that’s the case.
It’s also possible belching white smoke is the default state of affairs when they first start up, it had more or less stopped not long after I took this.
Ouch. How many units do you have in service?
The weather forecast that Inreach offers is also excellent, hopefully there will be a way to replicate that over cell service.
We’ll find out, I guess.
There is something funny about him just bypassing them, to be honest.
Steering it wasn’t the issue, it was how to actually take control from the autopilot.
Except it was a different failure mode to what they were concerned about.
Third incident, this is the second major fuck up in recent time.
And I was on the boat for the first one.
The title is actually pretty close, it sounds like nobody knew how the helm system worked, nobody had been trained, and people were frantically pressing buttons trying to get control back.
Also, the vessel was doing freight only crossings and taking the long way across the strait via outer Queen Charlotte sound, because Kiwirail didn’t trust the boat, in particular the transmission.
I’m sailing across the strait Saturday, wish me luck!
That system sounds like a bit of a nightmare to use. And worse to turn off.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vevWmKKJpy6
This was the south coast cleanup trip.
My legs hurt. Amazing scenery though.
Someone’s loaned me a mountain bike, I’ve been out after work a few times this week. I’m saving up to buy my own one soon.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqowLwAjKq
Also, I’ll be helping with the south coast cleanup tomorrow, cleaning up Taputearanga island with the Wellington sea kayak network.
I’ve heard that one a few times before actually, it’s not entirely unfair either.
The line is out of action while deicing is taking place, but only for the shortest amount of time necessary.
That’s what I’m thinking, yes. Although you could pump a lot of heat into the pantograph, and pair it up with a scraper at the same time.
It wouldn’t be able to run line speed, but it would be reasonably fast, I’d think.
If she refuses to resign, it will be interesting to see if greens use the “waka jumping” rules against her.
They were against them at the time, as they felt they could be used to silence dissent in the party ranks, so to use them would be an embarassing change of direction for them.
This is how power line deicing works on systems overseas. You need two legs to the circuit, so it would involve either isolating lines from each other on double track, or earthing out the end of the lines, and using the tracks as a return path.
The option I was actually thinking about was having a heated pantograph of some type.
It’s been done with power lines overseas, where they somehow increase the current in the lines to heat them up to shed ice.
No idea how it actually works though, I’ll have to look into it.
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.