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Sadlly NZ forgets the world is watching on, bearing witness to the vocal - seeming majority - hanging sh*t off of the captain, whose only "crimes" are: Adopting our country - and the NZDF - as her own Bringing her family here Bringing her skills to our little island nation, and the NZDF. (Command of military vessels does not come in a lottery or a cereal box!) Being female and a captain. who cares if she prefers to dine at the Y. As if that's really a 'thing' in 202x?! We have laws that support same-sex marriage; we're supposed to be a broad-thinking and welcoming country. One can be pretty confident that if one of our few Captains has put their ship aground, it was most likely the safest option available. Whatever the circumstance, the captain made the decision to abandon ship. It's not something taken in haste, nor a gut feeling spur-of-the-moment thing - they run through many inputs, and arrive at a command decision based on all of the data available. All aboard were safely evacuated to shore, with minimal injury and no loss of life. Bravo. The NZ Navy Court of inquiry will bring out the detail, and we may be priveliged to learn some of it. Sadly that's no barrier to our keyboard warriors chiming in. What's noteworthy is that most of them have never been in command of anything more than a scooter or a car. They put on display the sexist and narrow world-view that's rarely far from the surface in good old godzone. To all our unthinking punters - thanks for the expert help in marketing our country to potential immigrants or tourists. "You bloody losers"**. Our Captain derserves nothing less than the respect, support, and confidence of her adopted countrymen, without prejudice - whatever the outcome of the inquiry. ** - note: that's not targetted at anyone on our forum, unless you happen to self-qualify into that group.

Ha love all the conspiracy theories. Reading all the comments on Reddit has been such a good laugh. Women bad!! Would we have been better off with the ex Chief of Navy whos nickname is Crash? I wonder why they called him that? Also all the Aussies laughing..... They clearly have forgotten when their Aircraft carrier ran over a frigate in peace time killing over 80 sailors.

Fun-fact: It was registered to Bruno Trouble of Louis Vuitton fame when he was running the America's Cup events in Auckland in 2000 and 2003.

This kiwi new Mauritius Blue example came out of the woodwork recently after 13 year of hibernation.

buy a 135i or m135i or swap in a n54 to your 130i

Mate, I know that at one stage the owners were sending it from Wellington to Auckland annually to get it serviced! Lovely car - Macao is almost like a violet / blue colour and this one had full cream leather. HAd around 245,000 k's 20 years ago!

Yeah agreed, its not as though the captain twirls the big wooden wheel anymore. Will be a whole string of fups... Actually feel sorry for her, she doesnt appear to be a DEI hire at all, gets all the stress of being in charge of a big boat and the extra stress of "dont f&ck it up" stress because of being female and having the perceived DEI hire angle.

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Ok so car is fine, was the Alternator belt, clutch and Pulley. All replaced and now it’s fine.

Still working for me as of last night. (app 4.9.2)

theses something fishy with the numbers of people on board too, alot of private people," samoans" appear to have been onboard for some reason, not that we will ever know as it will all be covered up and the inquiry will be whitewashed. Its looking like another Rena now with turtles dieing and oil slicks so is going to get very expensive and be ongoing it would appear. But what really rips my nightie is all they can keep saying , its not that bad because no one died, so we paid 69m for a boat that was valued at 16m apparently, spent 40m to make it navy compatible, replacement cost is probably now 150m 150m would have paid for how many cancer treatments, operations etc, yes its going to costs lives FFS.