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    Dibley 33

    Pretty cool looking boat. But yikes. 6m of chain on a 14m boat? 44 lbs CQR anchor, equipped with 20’ of 3/8″ chain and 150’of 3/4″ Yale Brait anchor rode
  2. There are some... I follow Historic Vessel Vega and they're often posting cool vids of traditional building and photo's of old boats. https://www.facebook.com/Historic-Vessel-Vega-125068434229063 This is the Cutty Sark at Mill Wall back in 1937. No wonder she was so fast.
  3. My garmin doesn't show a navigable gap on the northern side/inside of that bombie at the entrance to Coralie. Yet later versions do. Last year right on dark I was going into Administration bay for the first time, had checked plotter for hard things poking up from bottom which showed nothing, at the last minute I turned on navionics on my phone, it takes a few seconds to fire up and bugger me days I was right beside this rock below. It doesn't show on my garmin, I've looked and zoomed and looked, it's not there. No idea if I was 1 inch away or 1 metre but doubt it was more.
  4. Has anyone else done the ynz survey, I stopped at these questions which a little unusual. Maybe they're concerned how much I smell on my boat?
  5. You can get sky (sport) for a month for $40, no decoder req, I've been casting to the tv but I'm sure you could do the same from your phone. It's good as you can scroll back through the schedule and watch anything you want at any time. Apart from the fact I seriously begrudge paying sky a single penny it's been really good (we got it this month and will keep it for the Olympics) Or you can save $40 and watch on tv1, the fee is having to put up with Toni Street... https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/tokyo-2020
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    Cool Boat

    Coolness doesn't come cheap does it! Wonder what the faster boats he talked about were. Sunfast or pogo?
  7. So what's the next step in the evolution of this idea? Crossing the Tasman...???
  8. Not really Waiheke but a big slap in the face for Stuart Nash. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/court-overturns-ministers-decision-on-tarakihi-fishing-limits The High Court has found that the former minister of fisheries, Stuart Nash, incorrectly set the catch limit on Tarakihi by taking into account industry proposals over official advice. “When deciding how long a fish stock should take to recover, the minister should consider the biology of the fish, not a voluntary industry plan,” the court said.
  9. Imagine Dalton is doing his very best to protect what I imagine is a very healthy salary for himself and a bunch of others (no one can blame him for that really). Also guess he's doing exactly what he's told with the options he's been presented by Emirates/Ratcliffe. Option A- you and your team keep earning megabucks and we race in the solent as per sir jimbos request. Option B - you race in Auckland. Good luck, you'll probably need it. (and we'll most likely race on the solent in 4 years time)
  10. Funny how the opinion trolls in the herald don't mention dropping a roading project. The Herald is the kiwi equivalent of The Sun minus page 3...
  11. while we're at it might as well cut pen link out as well and easily have a billion...
  12. Looks like they should be in in a matter of hours, pretty smooth passage? Guess they'll be straight to quarantine and the next episode will tell how the passage went. Are you the agent helping them out MH?
  13. Been watching their vids for a year or two, they're quite funny at times.
  14. That looks off the beaten path! 👌
  15. Pumping! I happened to look at the live cam about 2.30 yday and saw them towing in. Productivity halted...
  16. This looks quite interesting. https://www.yachtingworld.com/races/how-to-follow-the-ocean-race-europe-131973 VO65's and IMOCA 60's, both fully crewed. Leg 1: Lorient, France – Cascais, Portugal Leg 2: Cascais, Portugal – Alicante Spain Leg 3: Alicante Spain – Genova, Italy Designed and built for the Volvo Ocean Race, the VO65 has been used in the last two editions of the crewed round the world race. The VO65 are a fleet of pure one design boats, meaning each boat is identical, making gains more a matter of crew performance over and above technical developments. Havin
  17. That's an awesome photo of the wharf! I spent 4 years going over Brophy's hill in a skool bus many years ago and I don't recall ever seeing the bay break right across like that. The boats moored at front beach would have had an interesting time.
  18. Hard not to get excited about a system like that hey lateral, esp when it sits and churns for several days, how often does that happen! Whangapoua on the coro won't be any good, s.e bowls straight in there, few miles east will be worth a look though. Northport wave buoy showing a lift already - https://northport.co.nz/weatherfeed Best place to be tomorrow will be 45mins west of Hamilton, 16s period swell, perfect offshore and every man and his dog heading east.
  19. There you go, never heard of that breaking. Pity about the wind really, going to bugger up a lot of places. Imagine half of gissy and 90% of towelranga will be battling to find a park at Motu rivermouth.
  20. Might be the first time in years that Cemetery Point has a wave on it.
  21. Snapseeded to bring out the clouds a little more
  22. Another vote for Excel, held us tight in 55+ at Port Charles where plenty will tell you is the shittiest holding on the Coromandel. Had to tow the anchor out next morning. Same discussion being had about anchors on Attainable Adventure Cruising which is a subscription site but they won't touch Rocna's and always had Spades as #1, but in the latest blurb they rate Excel's as equal to Spades.
  23. Is that the downside of not having a boat that performs upwind Veladare? (you have a cat yeah?) I find it amazing how many yachts motor into the wind, or even motor downwind, makes me wonder when they do put the sails up if they're not up going downwind. We've got an old motor with an undersized prop so mostly try to sail as the donk is noisy, but even so, the motion is so much nicer sailing. There is a cav 45 on TM at the moment, engine 11 years old, 4100hrs.
  24. A friend has a HR46 he sailed back from Europe. I sent him the link to that Finot Conq 53 'cruiser' IT put up y.day and he had a one word reply - French. As he says, an HR will get you there and back in style and comfort. It's a pity you need to sell the firstborn to afford one.
  25. don't normally read fb much and I know the fact that it's posted by Chloe Swarbrick will have multiple eyes rolling in peoples head, but... WTF are the developers on to actively get offside with even more people than they're offside with already. They might have the consents required but if they are actually breaking them at the first step as she suggests then surely you're putting the whole project at risk? Chlöe Swarbrick Have got word from Protect Kennedy Point peaceful occupiers on the ground/moana that developer works are firing up to dismantle th
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