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    Britain and Europe

    Speaking as someone of British ancestry, I have to say I'm very saddened by the prospect of Britain (fully) joining the European Union. For the life of me, I don't understand what Britain has in common with the major European countries like Germany and France. I think it's a mistake of...
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    Americas Cup - Battle of the Kiwis

    Today is the first day of the America's Cup races and little old Auckland is buzzing. We hear that Cindy Crawford will be starting the first race - Tom Cruize, Prince Albert of Monaco, Larry Ellison, Paul Allen.... and a whole lot more celebrities and billionaires - more than you can shake a...
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    Recommended reading

    I haven't been able to keep my nose out of this book since I started it. A very educational, very readable and a very shocking insite into the early days of the Vietnam war...<br /><br />The link below describes it better than I can;<br /> We Were Soldiers Once...and Young
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    White Lightning

    Something I saw on television tonight started me thinking about the old days of prohibition in the Southern USA...MOONSHINE...white lightning...the moonshine runs and Nascar racing etc.<br /><br />It would seem to an outsider Kiwi bloke like me that this whole moonshine thing was a bit of a...
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    Colonel John Boyd

    I saw the following article in our local paper regarding Col. John Boyd - a remarkable fellow to say the least and particularly relevant in these times.<br /><br />Father of the F16 as well as those amazing little predator drones.....very interesting reading.<br /><br /> NZ Herald - Colonel John...
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    Weight of your boat & trailer

    Today I took my boat & trailer into the local testing station for it's yearly warrant of fitness test (a thing we do in NZ).<br /><br />I asked the guy testing the trailer whether he could tell me the combined weight of the boat & trailer. He said he could easily, using that gadget on the floor...
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    Weapons Inspections in Iraq

    I think President Bush has the right attitude to these weapons inspections.....which are really a complete waste of time and just a political sideshow (we all know what has to be done in Iraq);<br /><br />In a keynote speech ahead of a Nato summit in Prague, Bush said: "We now call an end to...
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    Sand in the cooling system

    Yesterday when I brought my boat in from a day's fishing at Whangamata, I struck dead low tide and the water was a lot more shallow than I expected. As I came in fairly close to the ramp, the prop started churning up sand from the bottom in a big way. It was already tilted up as far as it...
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    Soapbox: The Saddam issue

    I'm disgusted with the majority of world leaders - who are failing to give support to the U.S. in taking out Saddam.<br /><br />How safe do they imagine the world will be once Saddam is nuclear armed ? How will anyone contain his power and aggression once he can threaten to nuke anyone who...
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    Outboard stolen from my back yard

    I had to think a while about which forum to put this under. Maybe it's more "backyard boat UN-building". Anyway, I'll post this as a way of sharing the experience and hopefully it might help someone else by making them take more precautions and stop this happening to them.<br /><br />I have...
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    Texas Floods

    JB,<br /><br />I just saw on tv that there's been some huge floods in Texas; ...and I thought we had all the rain down here in NZ at present.<br /><br />I hope the Hideout is ok ?
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    Tough Times

    It's tough luck when your car horn accidently blasts off and remains jammed when you're driving behind a group of Hell's Angels... :confused:
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    Spirit of choice

    The marketing guys are very good at telling us who drinks what around the world. They tell us how the Scotsmen like their Scotch Whiskey (reliable sources would confirm this), the Russians like their Vodka (confirmed), the French like their Brandy (yep) and the good ole boys South of the Dixie...
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    Battle of Midway - 60th Anniversary

    It's now 60 years since that legendary naval battle that turned the tide against the Japanese in the fight for the Pacific.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, one of the finest and most important chapters of WWII history.<br /><br /> http://www.microworks.net/pacific/battles/midway.htm
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    Domestic situations

    I thought this subject (which comes up in various posts from time to time) might be worthy of a thread and a few laughs...<br /><br />I heard a good one the other day;<br /><br />He and She had reached the stage where they were no longer talking to each other and started using written notes.<br...
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    Fishing Techniques

    I started this thread because of a conversation between RossJ and myself about fishing and Auckland boating locations - that all started up in a thread about kicker motor brackets.<br /><br />Ross started telling me about drift fishing for snapper. I'm interested in hearing anything more that...
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    World Record Rainbow Trout

    Yeehah! - I just saw on the news that an American tourist from Montana has just broken a world record, catching a rainbow trout of 17kg (37.5 pounds) down here in the South Island of New Zealand. <br /><br />The previous world record was 16.5kg (36.4 pounds) which was landed at Lake...
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    Automatic Anchors

    I've noticed that a lot of the newer boats are coming out with electric motorized anchors that appear to wind out and back in again via the flick of a switch.<br /><br />Pulling in the anchor is a pain at the best of times, especially when you're trying out many different fishing spots. These...
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    Kicker - pros and cons

    I recently added a 8hp 2-stroke kicker to my 19' F/G CC boat and have since used it on several boat trips. I now realise that there are a number of issues, pros and cons to having a kicker and thought that listing these might be useful to anyone considering adding a kicker to their boat.<br...
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