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Lady Nada - Our new (to us) boat!


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Hi All

 

Thought its about time to our new (to us) boat, Lady Nada, a Lavranos 44 sailing cat. She's a homebuilt foam and glass cat that was built in Port Waikato in 2007 and we're her third owners as of 6 weeks ago. She's had a busy life with 5 trips to the islands in her life already.

 

Its been a busy 6 weeks as we brought her on the hard in Whangarei and have been flat out getting her sorted to head off to the islands this winter. We relaunched her just before Easter and having to trying to use her as much as possible since then. Having her 10min away from home at Bayswater Marina is much better that 2hrs to Whangarei!

 

Our plan is to head off to Tonga in early June, so its a pretty rushed program to get the boat ready but being such a well travelled boat, its just a case of "fix whats broken and make sure everything works" rather than taking on any "improvement projects".  

 

Our blog is here if anyone is interested - https://sailingladynada.wordpress.com/

 

 

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Nice one Adrian, its a long way away from the days when our trailer yachts were parked next to each other in the trailer park. You now have an oceangoing home! Great to see you living your dream.

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Yep, she has boards and the 2nd owner added the little mini keels, I think to protect the saildrives. The rudders stick down further and don't pop up or anything so beaching probably won't be an option.

 

This weeks job is to service the engines and order all our spare parts. Where is the best place to get Yanmar spares? Pretty good access to the engines, not so much to the genset which sits behind one of the motors - its more of a job for a contortionist!

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Adrian, are the 30's?

I have a mountain of spares I was about to sell on trademe including injectors. Found them hidden away on board, since i dont plan on island cruising Ive no need for them

Happy for you to come and have a look if you like. 

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Take the engine model and year into the likes of Auto Stop or any automotive place where you can get trade from and get all your spare filters from there, much cheaper than marine engineering supply places

The fuel and oil system are standard to any Diesel engine plus take a spare belt and get them to match that up, you will be surprised at the difference

If they can’t match the filters from the engine model then take a genuine one in.

 

That’s all if you need more after getting all Tom’s surplus’s

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