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It took me a few days to find this pic, but this is what I thought the title was referring to...

It worked! Sorta. A great sail out to the island, a typical lack-of-sleep night in a tent, a lot of swimming in the clear waters of the gulf. Heading home was not so good, we popped out into a fast flowing tide, going against a lovely 10-15 knot SW. Faaark it gets steep in that channel. Once clear of that, we settled into a nice fastish beat along the side the side of Rangitoto to north head. After clearing north head, it was eased sheets up the harbour, until, at Devonport the breeze went forward, so we start tacking, back and forth across the channel. One last hitch over to Richm

Thanks for the offer, but yeah, called it off. Heading up tomorrow to try again, new dink in tow.

Yes folks, my curse has struck again. During the weeks between the RumRace and now, the glue holding the transom to the inflatable has let go. So I spent the afternoon trying to procure a replacement dink at an ok price. I'm picking it up in the morning on the way to the boat, and the old one will be in the local experts workshop next week. Once again I've missed my night on the island watching the fireworks. Surely anniversary weekend will work out!

Cheers all, hoping to see a couple of others out there tomorrow

Anyone used the DoC camp there? Thinking of parking there to watch the NYE fireworks, wondering what the holding is like in a westerly. As we STILL haven't got a big boom tent made, we'll be camping ashore, would quite like the boat to still be there in the morning.

Hey, at least I had the wrong family. no offence wanted to any party, just still a little annoyed about that pist teenager from a rich family who got off after beating the female cop senseless

Post deleted by me - finally did 10 seconds of research.

Not followed the race, but is the theory that WO motored or something? Why don't they put tagged seals on the prop shaft or something to keep it simple?

I've just sent you a pm with contact details of a boat repair guy nearby. He's a good dude, probably happy to help out for beer. May or may not be around over the next week or two, haven't seen him for a few months

Have to agree with Puff on the little Suzy. We get 4 knots for about an hour pushing the tri. Light, smooth and quiet. I need a slightly longer one, the prop lifts out unless I stand near the transom, not ideal when I'm trying to sort out sails etc.

We passed it off Devonport wharf, during one of our hundreds of fn wide angle tacks. Considered picking it up, but time was against us- we were already last, and I had an early start this morning. Also, pretty sure it was a corpse by then, wasn't doing much swimming

Thanks for organising that again Matt and Mark. We failed to finish, but still had fun. Our windward stuff needs work, it was dark as we got to the bridge. But home safe.

What happened to all the multis that were giving me stick? I've got the tricycle wet, and got the car packed, so where are you all hiding?

Proving to be a work 'mare, third Christmas with the great present employer, third rum race in a row I likely won't be at. MarkM, if you're willing, work out a start time for my little tri, Strike 3, said to be similar performance to a farrier F24 Mk1. Then if the stars align at least we can join in and hopefully give the 8.5s something to chase, at least for a few minutes ????

Yeah, sadly one must tend the garden at least once a year,before it swsllows the house. Sailing again next weekend

Apparently at a huge king low tide I can walk to it. Failing that, outboard motors are better than oars

What area is that Plato?

Hey KM, since you already have the spec's on file somewhere, can you please create a buoy and rope to fit? Nothing unusual or special, but I'll shackle it onto the remaining parts. HM reckons something big tied to the buoy and it just pulled the splice apart. I'm not convinced, I'll drop the rope in at some point so you can have a nosey, probably when I pick up the new one!

Bloody hard to get a decent photo in a boat that size, and I believe only hookers shave above the knee

My gripe about the delay is that two contractors said "about two months" and the third said 3 weeks. Then took 5 months, wouldn't answer the phone and wouldn't reply to emails. I eventually called the harbourmaster to find out if they had gone out of business. My mooring was serviced the next day or so. A little communication can go a long way.

Little shoal bay. There's a few that service that area, i went for the one with the shortest to-do list. Then had a five month wait. Apparently google maps is fairly accurate with its satellite imagery, I spent an hour or so motoring over the picture of my boat and hooked the rope.

As some of you will be aware, our recently serviced mooring disappeared. Over the weekend I took google maps and a grapnel for a ride in the dinghy, and found it. Well, most of it. The new buoy rope (3 strand), which had been spliced to the new buoy, was now just a rope, the splice had completely come undone, and the buoy has floated off to (probably) greener pastures. I've let the Harbour Masters office know, and I'm wondering about taking the contractor to small claims for the cost of a new buoy and getting someone with a clue to splice it properly. Check your knots and splic

I'm a big fan of Windrush, no tools needed. Snap clips on forestays and jib, double hooks on shrouds. About 2 minutes to raise mast, then shackle main halyard, clip on sheets and go. Avoid the shallow rudder version, only suitable for surf landings really.

Hmmm I know someone who just rebuilt 2 Hartley 16's. He's always looking for a new project. Which road?