Boatworks

We might actually make the start line on time for the 50. We spent a few hours sorting through all the old sails that came with the new boat last night...hoping for a bit less breeze for the 50 miler as the oldest main that we used to sail some of the 100 course went into the skip afterwards....

Craig at Profile Metals in Rylock Place, Pakuranga or Brian at Steelelliotts at Half Moon Bay Marina.

Yep should be a fun ride....well maybe not upwind in big breeze but we’re kind of used to that. And maybe a bit wetter all round than we are used to. I’m heading over to Newcastle on Friday to pack up the boat with Tom, the previous owner. It has its own shipping cradle which is helpful. The boat leaves the marina on a truck on Monday and is due in Auckland around the third week of July. A few jobs to do before she’s in the water not least of which is figuring out how to put it all back together. It’s a bit tight to make Race 2 but we’ll have a crack at it. She’s now registered in

A mate of mine has a 40' cat and is looking for a Volvo 120 S-E sail-drive with a ratio of 2.47 – 1. Apparently this is an unusual ratio, and no longer available new - which is unfortunate as he needs to match the other unit. He is faced with having to purchase a new matching set . He is getting plenty of professional advice, he has also located at least one used unit overseas. We are just trying to cast the net wider to see if anyone in NZ has one available. If you can help PM me here and I'll put you in touch with Tony. (Edit - All sorted, he’s shipping a used pair in from the

In our experience Propspeed is by a long distance the best solution. Provided it is correctly applied. Regular use will prolong its life. We have seen up to and exceeding 3 years lifespan and 1-2 years is routine. If it touches anything firm (eg hands, weed, sand or driftwood) there is a likelihood it will not last as the surfaces and especially the edges can tear or rub through. If this occurs the effectiveness of the product will degenerate. Our failure rate would be less than 1%. Again you must prep and apply it carefully and correctly.

Planning for RNI of course!

You might be right on the MSM comment but totally disagree with this bit, I’m currently commodore of a very small Akl yacht club (just 60 families) and also have been involved in many other clubs and events over the years - I cannot speak highly enough of the support we get. Often we don’t need to ask, it’s offered. The YNZ people I see most of like Angus, Andrew, Kelly, Raynor, Wayne and Kim (especially Kim!) are incredibly interested in what we do, plugged in to whats happening and helpful. Maybe it’s because the clubs and associations I’ve been involved in (including Olympic and NZ c

For Bay Week, we’ll (Ross 40) be in Island Racing again this year - already entered and have been put into B this year which will make a nice change. In the past we have had a good mix of cruiser racer type boats in A with us at the smaller end. There have been two Ross 40’s in A for I think 2 of the last 3 years with Urban Cowboy and ourselves. We don’t bother with the Windward Leeward racing as we feel we really need a more polished crew, there is too much potential for things to go wrong in big breeze as we found at the Jack Tar a few years ago. We tend to sail with friends and a few

https://www.trademe.co.nz/trade-me-motors/boats-marine/yachts/keeler/auction-1870449497.htm Be good to see her back in use in the NZ fleet. (I own a sistership but have no connection with this sale)

It was Vagrant, and she’s been saved - trucked to Whangateau to be repaired

Nope they’re both sold a while back

Is that last photo of the Sunfast? Damon and Josh in disguise

Found a couple of pictures of Spearhead's aussie keel...

High Voltage Keel: Don't think I have one of Backchat

Just the bulb and maybe the keel fin I think, someone with better knowledge will be able to confirm - it might be the same as the one on Kick (that was what I understood). Later NZ keel upgrades have the skinny 'T Keel'/bulb like High Voltage, Pretty Woman, Second Nature and Gale Force which I recall are all pretty similar. Spearhead has a different keel, it was done in Australia.

At one point Wellington had a heap of 1050's; Backchat, Chain Reaction, Gale Force, Cutting Edge, Rockstar to go with an even bigger fleet of Y11's. Picking up on Mark's post earlier about overseas boats, E1050 Crocodile Rock is in NZ, she lives at either HMB or Pine Harbour Marinas and looking very nice. She doesn't race any more. There is also a Sandringham (VIC) based cruiser version "Unique" that is (or was) listed with Sundance Marine in Australia

Kick’s builder/first owner Ian Harvey and plenty of other guys who sailed on her are still around the BBYC area (Ian may be up in the islands on his yacht by now). Easy to put you in touch with them. You know about the cockpit mods, also the keel was quite different to the standard jandal (maybe the same as backchat?) and I believe the mast is taller than all the other boats. The boat needs the runners on to perform. Plenty of info around on the others, there have been lots that have had keel mods and various prod and square top setups. With Fineline, Spearhead and Kick imported bac

Which club are you at? We have seen 6.5’s on the hard at Parua Bay and Napier recently and from memory there are some down south (Timaru?)

I am not sure this is correct (unless it’s the same owner bringing it in who originally exported it). My understanding is, new owner = GST payable (regardless if GST has already been paid once). If it was built and sailed from new in NZ, and you can prove that, there should be no duty.

GST is generally payable in these circumstances, duty would generally not be if boat was built in NZ

I think there might still be a couple of other entries out there. Maybe including one that went around last time. In 3 days time it will be a year since we started the RNI. Maybe the unpleasant bits of that race (not that there were very many) are fading a bit in my memory... It also occurred to me today that we would not have wanted to be off NZ's west coast this week.....that very same thought was also had by my RNI & potential RNZ co-skipper! And probably by a few others on the entry list!

I think this is the mould H28 hard dodger we were referring to: https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/parts-accessories/other/auction-1454131340.htm

We used an Iridium Go with an external aerial mounted on the pushpit for this year's RNI race (Provincial Cowboy). It was paired to two iPhones. I highly recommend it as a simple solution. The only downside is the download speed as of course we are all used to 3G and 4G. The texting was great - we used that for all our position reports and it worked well. If you are using Predictwind offshore for weather downloads, it's important to know exactly what files you need and don't download others. Important to spend a bit of time getting familiar with it and the apps beforehand but all qu

The boat's at Half Moon Bay Marina and will be headed to WH to live, I will ask him to update when I see him. There is also one in Wellington now, Loco - also shipped over

Yes I think that's the one. looks like Nelson so location makes sense, although the windows are different (bigger) than I remember - maybe the other one built that was mentioned in the advert. Here's the link to that page,..looks promising: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=H28%20Yacht%20Owners%20Association%3A%20New%20Zealand%20dodger