Extended Cruising The Second Time Around

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Court
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Good Reading ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Sailing Yacht ◽  
The Subject ◽  
One Year ◽  
Port Said ◽  
Naval Architect ◽  
Made In

Some years ago, in 1975, I presented a paper and a slide show at an earlier sailing yacht symposium in Annapolis. The subject was a four-year, 28,000 mile cruise I had made in the years 1965 - 1968 most of the way around the world: Hawaii and the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia's Barrier Reef, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, including the Greek Islands, an Atlantic crossing to Barbados from the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and home to the Chesapeake. The paper I wrote then was entitled "Extended Cruising: An Overview" and contained sketches and data from my logs. It was same 55 pages long and talked about many facets of cruising from my vantage point, primarily as seen from the decks of Mamari, the 28 foot ketch I had bought in New Zealand. Lest Mamari 's size appear too small, which perhaps would make me seen heroic, recognize that in displacement and accomodations Mamari was the equivalent of a 33 foot boat. To dispel one other misconception, be advised that I normally sailed with a crew of two, sometimes more, and only sailed two legs single-handed, of about 500 miles each, one from Tonga to Fiji in the Pacific, the other in the Gulf of Suez and from Port Said to the Greek Islands. The 1975 paper reflected my background as a naval architect, combined with my experience as a sailor. I told of things I learned from others. I analyzed log data, presented photographs, drawings and tables, and wrote a series of "yarns" such as sailors spin about their travels. The paper is touched with a flavor of the sea, a flavor of talk over run or coffee in a snug anchorage or on a shared night watch. That 1975 paper makes good reading, and much of the information is still valid. It could be reprinted and if there is enough interest l will do so (contact me). This present paper is a brief look at my experiences on a series of sailing trips, but in particular a one year voyage in a 37 foot yawl from Turkey to the Chesapeake via the West Indies in 1980-81. The paper answers the question posed at the 1975 symposium, would I do the trip again? Then, I thought so, but could not be sure, now my reply is, "of course."

Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2561 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOISE MONNIOT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
New Records ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Tropical Western Pacific ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Made In

Numerous collections of ascidians have been made in the Pacific and Indian Oceans but the inventory is far from complete. Each sampling provides new species. Two new didemnids are described here from Palau and Vanuatu. New records are given for 22 additional species with complementary descriptions and underwater photographs. The tropical ascidian fauna is highly diverse and successive new collections show that many of the species are not only widely distributed from the central to western Pacific but also common to the Indian Ocean.

scholarly journals Some observations on character-training in a sole-charge school

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
L. M. Fairbrother
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Moral Instruction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Made In

It seems evident that the New Zealand Department or Education is giving some emphasis to the subject of Character-Training. The 1928 Syllabus of Instruction for Primary Schools, which came into force on the 1st. February 1929 includes "Character-Tralnlng" as a subject of instruction, and it receives pride of place by being first on the list. The previous complete revision of the Syllabus for Primary Schools as made in 1919. In that syllabus the subject of instruction were grouped under six general headings, the fifth one of which was "Man and Society" and included "Moral Instruction." Both the change in title and the chan place are significant of emphasis on the subject.

scholarly journals Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
H. F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Raphus Cucullatus ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The Indian Ocean

FEW taxa have suffered at the expansion of humanity to the extent of the birds of Pacific Islands. Of the 130 or so birds to become extinct as a consequence of European exploration and colonization of the Pacific, most were island birds and most were flightless rails. Not so well understood is the scale of extinctions that accompanied pre-European colonization of the Pacific islands. Only now is the paleontological record revealing the richness of the lost Pacific avifauna much of which can be put on a par with the loss of moas from New Zealand and the Dodo Raphus cucullatus from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

scholarly journals II. On the relation of form and dimensions to weight of material in the construction of iron-clad ships

1868 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 306-310
Keyword(s):  
Great Degree ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theoretical Question ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Naval Architect ◽  
Made In

The object of the Paper is to show that the proportion of length to breadth in a ship, and the form of her water-lines, should be made in a very great degree dependent upon the weight of the material of which her hull is to be constructed—that an armour-plated ship, for example, should be made of very different proportions and form from those of a ship without armour, and that as the extent and thickness of the armour to be carried by a ship are increased the proportions of length to breadth should be diminished, and the water-lines increased in fulness. It is highly desirable that this subject should receive the attention of men of science, not only because it bears most directly upon both the cost and the efficiency of future iron-clad fleets, but also because it opens up a theoretical question which has hitherto, I believe, received absolutely no consideration from scientific writers upon the forms and resistances of ships, viz. the manner in which the weight of the material composing the hull should influence the form. Prior to the design of the ‘Bellerophon,' the forms of ships were determined in complete disregard of this consideration; and even the most recent works upon the subject incite the naval architect to aim always at approaching the form of least resistance. The investigations given in the Paper show, however, that the adoption of a form of least resistance, or of small comparative resistance, may, in fact, lead to a lavish outlay upon our ships, and to a great sacrifice of efficiency; while, on the other hand, the adoption of a form of greater resistance would contribute in certain classes of ships to greater economy and to superior efficiency.

Revision of the genusMegasyllis(Annelida, Syllidae) with descriptions of four new species

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo San Martín ◽  
María Teresa Aguado ◽  
Patricia Álvarez-Campos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
San Martín

The genusMegasyllisis herein reorganized excluding the size from the diagnosis, since it is not a characteristic of all the species of the genus. We provide here a taxonomic account of all known species and a key to species identification. Seven species are new combinations, and re-descriptions of the four latter are included:Megasyllis nipponica(Imajima, 1966) andM. multiannulata(Aguado, San Martín & Nishi, 2008) from Japan;Megasyllis procera(Hartman, 1965) from the Atlantic;Megasyllis pseudoheterosetosa(Böggemann & Westheide, 2004) from the Indian Ocean.Megasyllis glandulosa(Augener, 1913), from Australia;Megasyllis marquesensis(Monro, 1939) from the Marquesas Islands, Micronesia andMegasyllis subantennata(Hartmann-Schröder, 1984) from Australia. Four new species from the Pacific Ocean namelyMegasyllis tigrinasp. nov.,Megasyllis mariandreworumsp. nov. (both from Australia),Megasyllis chrissyaesp. nov. (from the Philippines) andMegasyllis eduardoisp. nov. (from New Zealand) are described.

scholarly journals Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts

Ocean Science ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Charitha Pattiaratchi ◽  
Mirjam van der Mheen ◽  
Cathleen Schlundt ◽  
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy ◽  
Appalanaidu Sura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Subtropical Gyre ◽  
Plastic Debris ◽  
Sources And Sinks ◽  
Topographic Features ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Subject

Abstract. Plastic debris is the most common and exponentially increasing human pollutant in the world's ocean. The distribution and impact of plastic in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans have been the subject of many publications but not so the Indian Ocean (IO). Some of the IO rim countries have the highest population densities globally and mismanagement of plastic waste is of concern in many of these rim states. Some of the most plastic-polluted rivers empty into the IO, with all this suggesting that the IO receives a tremendous amount of plastic debris each year. However, the concentration, distribution, and impacts of plastics in the IO are poorly understood as the region is under-sampled compared to other oceans. In this review, we discuss sources and sinks, which are specific to the IO. We also discuss unique atmospheric, oceanographic, and topographic features of the IO that control plastic distribution, such as reversing wind directions due to the monsoon, fronts, and upwelling regions. We identify hotspots of possible plastic accumulation in the IO, which differ between the two hemispheres. In the southern IO, plastics accumulate in a garbage patch in the subtropical gyre. However, this garbage patch is not well defined, and plastics may leak into the southern Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean. There is no subtropical gyre and associated garbage in the northern IO due to the presence of landmasses. Instead, the majority of buoyant plastics most likely end up on coastlines. Finally, we identify the vast knowledge gaps concerning plastics in the IO and point to the most pressing topics for future investigation.

US students interning in New Zealand: how they are challenged; what they learn

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Frank Sligo ◽  
Teresa Heinz Housel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
One Year ◽  
Written Assignments

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore US students’ experience in for-credit, unpaid internships overseas with particular reference to their personal development, how they mobilised their knowledge across contexts, their learning as acquisition and as participation, and what they contributed. Students were thought likely to encounter three forms of cultural differences: national, workplace and academic. Design/methodology/approach In total, 17 students in communication, marketing or related fields from the USA were placed in four-week internships in Wellington, New Zealand. Outcomes for them were assessed first, via weekly discussions in which they described what they had encountered that week, second, via the presentations they gave at the end of the course to internship hosts and university staff on the subject of what they had found challenging and what they had learned and contributed, and third, through assessment of students’ formal written assignments to discover what they said they had learned and what they had contributed. Findings Students were surprised at how proactive their internship hosts expected them to be and at how little overt direction they received. While they valued their opportunity to make a contribution to their workplace, they found this challenging. Students gave instances of their learning both as individuals and in groups. No mention was made of academic cultural differences being an issue, but they often described the demanding nature of the national and workplace cultural differences that they encountered. Research limitations/implications The study reports on only one cohort of students in one year, so a longitudinal study of further cohorts might provide different findings. Originality/value Insights are provided into how students saw themselves as changing from their involvement. Students described the challenges they faced, how they reacted to those challenges and their most important forms of learning.

scholarly journals Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, fate, distribution and impacts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charitha Pattiaratchi ◽  
Mirjam van der Mheen ◽  
Cathleen Schlundt ◽  
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy ◽  
Appalanaidu Sura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Plastic Debris ◽  
Sources And Sinks ◽  
Topographic Features ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Subject

Abstract. Plastic debris are the most common and exponentially increasing human pollutant in the world's oceans. The distribution and impact of plastics in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have been the subject of many studies but not so for the Indian Ocean (IO). Some of the IO rim countries have the highest population densities in the world and mis-management of plastic waste is of concern in many of these IO rim states. Some of the highest plastic-polluted rivers end up in the IO with all this suggesting that the IO receives a tremendous amount of plastic debris each year. However, the concentration, distribution and impacts of plastics in the IO are poorly understood as the region is under-sampled compared to other oceans. In this review, we discuss sources and sinks, which are specific for the IO as well as unique atmospheric, oceanographic and topographic features of the IO such as reversing wind directions due to the monsoon, fronts and upwelling regions that control plastic distribution. We identified hotspots of possible plastic accumulation in the IO, which were different in the two hemispheres. In the northern Indian Ocean, the majority of the plastic material will most likely end up being beached due to the absence of a sub-tropical gyre, whereas in the southern Indian Ocean, the garbage patch is not well defined and there may be leakage of plastics into the southern Atlantic Ocean. Hotspots of predicted plastic accumulations are identified here as well as the vast knowledge gaps about the plastic issue of the IO and point to the most striking future investigation topics.

60. Discoloration in New Zealand Cheddar Cheese. Muddy, Pink and Bleached Defects. I. Bacteriological Investigations

1933 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. V. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Cheddar Cheese ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Made In ◽  
Pink Discoloration ◽  
Metallic Contamination

During the past two years, discoloration, owing to its prevalence in Cheddar cheese, has been the subject of much investigation by the New Zealand Dairy Division, and in the present paper are incorporated details of the observations made in this laboratory and in cheese stores in New Zealand and England, together with short reports on the same subject from English laboratories.To avoid confusion it must be emphasised that the defects dealt with are “bleached,” “pink” and “muddy” discolorations only. The observations do not apply to “black spot” (due to lead or other metallic contamination), nor to “red spots” (due to faulty annatto), nor to “acid cut” bleaching which seems to follow the outline of the original pieces of curd. Muddy or dark discoloration occurs in white and in coloured cheese, but the bleaching and pink discoloration dealt with here are confined to coloured cheese.

ON THE INCIDENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE RAT LUNGWORM ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS IN THE COOK ISLANDS, WITH OBSERVATIONS MADE IN NEW ZEALAND AND WESTERN SAMOA

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Alicata ◽  
Dennis D. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Angiostrongylus Cantonensis ◽  
Eosinophilic Meningitis ◽  
Infective Larvae ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Rat Lungworm ◽  
Paratenic Hosts ◽  
Made In ◽  
Land Mollusks

Of a total of 240 rats examined on the island of Rarotonga, 85.0% showed lungworm infection. No lungworms were found among 61 rats trapped in and around Auckland, New Zealand, and none among 95 rats trapped in the vicinity of Apia, Western Samoa. Of land mollusks examined on the island of Rarotonga, the following species were found infected with lungworm larvae: (slugs) Deroceras laeve and Vaginalus plebeius, and (snails) Bradybaena similaris and Subulina octona. In addition, a few infective larvae were found among land planarians and freshwater prawns, both of which serve as paratenic hosts. The finding of the rat lungworm on the island of Rarotonga offers an additional example in the Pacific of the occurrence of this parasite in an area where human eosinophilic meningitis occurs.

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