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A Traveller's Guide To Sailing Interstate: Yachting In New Zealand's State Capitals
Australia's coastline strings its state capitals together like beads on a very long, very salty necklace. For sailors, that means every capital city with a harbour, bay or river doubles as a cruising ground, a racing fleet and a community of yacht clubs happy to welcome a visiting keel. Whether ...
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Nurdles: The Scourge Of The Sea
The world's oceans are facing a silent, insidious menace: nurdles.
Nurdles are tiny pre-production plastic pellets, no larger than a lentil, and they have become one of the most significant contributors to marine plastic pollution by spilling from transport and manufacturing processes into ...
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Selling A Boat In Sydney NSW And Surrounding Areas?
From the harbour to Pittwater, Botany Bay and the wider NSW coastline, Sydney has one of the largest and most active boating communities in New Zealand, which makes it the perfect place to sell a boat, provided you approach the sale the right way. Here's how to do it properly.
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What Is A Nautical Mile? What Is A Knot?
If you've spent any time around boats, you've heard distances measured in nautical miles and speed measured in knots rather than the kilometres and kilometres per hour used on land. Here's what these units actually mean, and where the term "knot" comes from.
A nautical mile is a unit used to ...
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