Ex Machina

I assume it’s to stop people going cruising and intermingling with other cruisers at anchorage , or trying to sneak into BOI , coromandel , tutukaka , Mercury bay , great barrier etc . they do need to flesh out some of the rules so sensitive people don’t get offended …like last year when the “no boating because you may need coastguard assistance “ thing came in . Many people took that as a personal attack on their seamanship

Saw Mr Roosevelt two summers ago in BOI and it was in pristine condition with damn nice sails . whichway is also a very nice looking boat

Yeah we would ride them too , had some bad falls and lost a bit fair bit of bark

A vast amount of toxic crap goes out of that creek from the wairau industrial catchment so yeah , nothings going to get growing in that marina . I grew up playing in that creek and using the concreted part as an underground highway when wagging school. Some of the sh*t that businesses would chuck in there on purpose and inadvertently would turn the creek , green , red , pink and sometimes there would be a a 3 feet deep froth . Hopwood yachts , Cooksons , formula marine , Greg young marine , salthouse all had drainage sumps in the car parks outside the factory doors . I had mates who

Postponement within a reasonable timeframe might be best option . But who knows how long until there’s level 2 and an open border

Looks like Fibre is just within reach of the average person in the street

Just reposting this from the first page , still relevant and I reckon it’s why Mr Tindall stepped down a couple of weeks before the offshore announcement

High end wetsuits are the same . Every season there’s a more flexible neoprene with unobtainium lining etc but they crap out pretty quick . Waterproof the first winter , leaking the second winter and buggered on the 3rd

Have heard from a shore crew from a Volvo race that they binned their gear at the end of each leg . Won’t say what brand but a full kit of same brand will set you back nearly 3k . So that means it’s good for a month of continuous use , which I guess equates to a season or two of amateur use .

Excellent info . thanks for that

Have been Working with these guys over the last year on a sailing gear range . Have been using the prototypes for a year now and it’s very very good . It does not leak and it does breathe and it is also warm . At the nailing down the styling stage now so hopefully it will make it to market before the end of the year . Supply chain issues have slowed things down massively .

Yeah it’s now a 9.8 metre boat and had a couple of close calls on crosses cause I forgot it was there 😬

all credit to my mate Scott , he’s pulled some big hours and done a superb job . Sort of sold the Shaw , lockdown is drawing things out a bit so hopefully it will go to a new home by early summer

Fitted the prod last night and tried it out today in first spring series race today . It has transformed the boat downwind and we have gone from a 40 something masthead m2 spinnaker to a 100m2 gennaker . boat felt great , heaps more power and speed and so nice to be apparent wind sailing again after 6 months of spinnakers only .

just launched . Looks bloody nice …hints of young 1034 and young 99 coachroof and window shape there I reckon . https://www.lymanmorse.com/project/lm46-1/

This is the only pic I have at the moment . Its a bit different to a MK1 7.8 . The sheer line is straight and it has a bit less rocker I think . Also the rig is 1 metre taller than standard .

A very nice Elliott 7.8 . but I am biased !

This is the one we copied , but only one bobstay/tack line

new carbon/foam steering plank and new carbon removable prod . my mate Scott worked his butt off designing and building the rudder . The internal structure is very much like an aircraft wing with spars and ribs . It was CNC cut from a thin carbon/foam/carbon plate . When it was assembled and glued Scott put each end on blocks and stood in the middle and it only deflected a wee bit so it’s damn strong . The core is expanding foam and the skin is carbon . It’s not super light but it has positive buoyancy and it’s feckin stiff . the prod is a repurposed carbon spin pole we found ch

Ah well you can’t come and race with us then in October ! It’s a trailer yacht regatta

Handicap issues arise there though if it were possible . In distance races DP in the right conditions would be duking it out with the captains of industry in their super expensive 40 ftrs . Great fun for him but a massive imbalance of the scales

Quite ironic that your boat then went on to win every major trophy in the south many years later !

Band on the wharf would work …100 people allowed outside so a few socially seperate raft ups would cover a few hundred people

There must be a few boats that could host 50 people on Saturday night ?

Caught a glimpse of the nationals in bulls ? Last year when we were driving down to get the boat from Wellington . Looked bloody cool , big fleet too if you can call it that ?