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  1. we use sodium metabisulfate. its readily available at home brewing shops as its used to sanitize jugs etc before brewing of beer or wine. and its cheap!
  2. Ahhh....that makes a lot more sense!
  3. I have sailed from Auckland to Marlborough in Sept 2011 in our yacht, and circumnavigated the north island (clockwise) at Christmas this year starting from Marlborough Sounds. Happy to give any advice you specifically want, and happy for you to PM me. Have stopped all sorts of places along the way and worked out pretty quickly where is comfortable and whats not. As per island time, what sort of boat and size?, how many crew have you got? have you got a timeframe to complete the trip?
  4. Im rather confused by the picture above. we are going for Cat 1 ourselves soon and have a similar setup (except sliding hatch comes over the washboard). How does the above setup help hold the sliding hatch closed? or does cat 1 not require that, only the washboard to be held closed regardless of the sliding hatch? i assumed it it was a requirement that both be held closed and are openable from both sides? any enlightenment. the documents for cat 1 are very vague
  5. very soon (2016 hopefully), even though we are still young there is more to life than work. Money doesn't make you happy, however a well paying job has allowed us to get to a stage where we are looking at retiring at only 31. I know we will be going for a much simpler way of life living aboard our 44ft yacht but we want to sail the world and get away from the stresses of owning a company, the bureaucratic rubbish and hassles living and working in christchurch (and being part of the rebuild process). The thing I cant wait for is to throw my cellphone into the deep blue, the fact that everyone i
  6. TeMPuS

    Solar Power

    We bought the boat in the USA so bought them over there. They are pretty standard panel so should be readily available here with some searching. Dimensions are about 1500 x 660
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    Solar Power

    for what its worth from my experience over the last 4 years cruising. We have 2x 135W kyocera panels which by the book put out 7.4amps each but over summer in sunny northland we were getting 18.5amps out of them so pretty efficient. with 450amp/hrs of batteries we were able to run the fridge 24/7 for 6 weeks, autopilot, plotters, tv, radio, inverter running toaster and all sorts, watermaker for hours a day (got to the stage we were making so much water we were filling buckets to wash dive gear and the boat deck). the only thing to take into account is the sun has far less energy in the cooler
  8. Thanks for the advice. In answer to the last question, yes I am coming back to Marlborough so will do the west coast on way home. I might make provision to take the east coast route up north unless we are going to get a good weather window that will allow a West Coast trip. I have done the east coast before from AKL to Wellington so not bothered to much about seeing it again and it adds another 170nm which sucks.
  9. Hi all, its been a while since I have been active on here but planning a trip at Christmas time from Havelock (Marlbrough) to Bay of Islands. Looking at dropping the dock lines about 20th Dec and heading around the top of the North Island before turning SW to BOI via Whangaroa Harbour and Cavalli Islands. Just looking for any advice for that time of the year, prevailing wind directions? anywhere to shelter enroute if the weather kicks up rough. The boat is 44ft solid bluewater cruiser, have been through plenty of bad weather including 2x crossings of Cook in 50+kn with 6+ meter seas. Than
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