ANIMATED KNOTS BY GROG
APP OF THE MONTH
WITH RECENTLY UPDATED versions available for iphone, ipad and Android devices, you’ll never be at a loss when you need to tie a knot.
This handy little app shows how to tie hundreds of useful knots, split into 13 different categories. The demonstration animations are easy to follow and you can freeze the action or go back at any time. Use the new ‘loop’ button to repeat the sequence until you get it right. The Fishing and Boating knot sections are probably of most interest to Boating NZ readers, but other categories include Surgical, Decorative, Climbing and Splicing.
Animated Knots by Grog is available from Apple’s App Store, Google Play and the Animated Knots by Grog website, www.animatedknots. com. Downloads cost less than US$5. Downloads for PC and Mac are also available on the website.
THE AUCKLAND ON Water Boat Show will be held at the Viaduct Harbour and Events Centre on September 24-27.
This year, show visitors who purchase their tickets on-line will have the opportunity to enter the draw to win one of eight prize packages valued at $1,000; two prize packages will be drawn every day.
Winners will be able to choose between a Hutchwilco lifejacket and safety pack, Rupe Bigfoot Deluxe polishing kit, La Plancha Tradition twoburner hot plate including softcover, cleaner and spatula, Mercury 3.3hp two-stroke outboard, Sovereign Alpha Marine BBQ with flat/grill and a WCI-85W 85L ice box, Furuno colour fishfinder and transducer, Fusion Entertainment MS-AV700 marine stereo and wet weather gear.
Visitors who complete the visitor survey at the show will be in to win a seven-day charter with The Moorings in Vava’u, Tonga including airfares from Auckland to Tonga for two.
With the exhibitor space for the show nearly sold out already, visitors can expect a wide array of large vessels on display in the Viaduct Harbour.
Local builder Lloyd Stevenson will exhibit an Elite 16m and Elite 18m, while Scott Lane will have a 13m Elite sedan. David Pachoud will have a new Roger Hill-designed, 20m powercat.
Other brands such as Riviera, Bavaria, Caribbean, Dufour, Elan, Jeanneau, Hanse, Dehler, Sealine, White Pointer, Moody, Arvor, Fountaine-pajot, Salthouse and Sealegs will also have vessels on the water.
Azimut will return to the show with its new agent, Vining Marine. It is expected they will display up to three of the Italian vessels, including an Atlantic 34 and an Azimut 50.
JP RIBS will debut its premium spec Custom 850 RIB at the show. The 850 features a custom console, a top speed of more than 50 knots and a high quality finish.
The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior was to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, poisoned by years of nuclear fallout. Rainbow Warrior was engaged in a successful humanitarian mission to relocate the population of 300 to Kwajalein Atoll. Journalist David Robie joined the Greenpeace ship in May 1985 and witnessed first hand the plight of the Marshallese. He then accompanied Rainbow Warrior to Auckland where she was sunk by the French Secret Service in a fatal bombing that shook New Zealand to the core. The fifth edition of this book, first published in 1986 and extensively redesigned and updated for Little Island Press, is the definitive account of that last voyage.