Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
tuesday 12 April 2016
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Sunken trawler lifted
A historic 100 year old trawler that spent two months underwater at Fisherman’s Wharf was refloated on Friday. The 16 metre Kaikohe sank during flooding that hit many parts of the region in February. After two failed attempts by the Nelson Fire Service to bring it up, a heavy duty, 10,000 litreper-minute vacuum pump from Christchurch got the job done. Ross MacRae, who is helping to renovate the boat, says it took about 45 minutes of actual pumping to get it floating again. Ross says that the boat also sank last year, and amazingly the time it has spent underwater has had “very little effect” on it.
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Kate Russell Reporter
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In fact, he says it was probably good for it, with to the seawater “pickling” the hard wood. “There’s nothing wrong with the hull - now it’s up, it will stay up,” he says. Burt Fox from Lift and Shift says it was a “pretty simple job,” and they even managed to attract a crowd. “We had a few people watching, it was pretty hardcase. As we kept going, more and more people stopped to watch,” he says. Ross says the boat was definitely worth refloating, and just before it sank he was
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Nicki van Asch during the Wairua Warrior Obstacle Race held at Happy Valley on Saturday. Photo: Evan Barnes/Shuttersport.
Warriors get dirty at Happy Valley Warriors of all shapes and sizes had to run, army crawl under barbed wire, climb walls, balance along logs, carry sandbags and monkey bar their way through the muddy Wairua Warrior course on Saturday morning. The obstacle race wound through the river and up the looming hills at the Happy Valley Adventure Park, with 6km, 12km and 12km elite
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reporter@nelsonlive.co.nz courses featuring over 20 obstacles. Four hundred and forty racers took part, with officials dishing out burpee penalties to racers who failed to complete the obstacles correctly. With the fastest time of the day, and
in his first obstacle race, was Wakefield’s Ethan Helliwell, completing the 12km elite course in 1:36:37. “It was more challenging than I expected and it over-met my expectations, the atmosphere was wicked, and it was an extreme amount of fun. “I wasn’t expecting to win because
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