madyottie 82 Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Beautiful weather and a good forecast, an early afternoon start, and a couple of good mates. We left the little shoal bay mooring at about 11 and motored off towards eastern beach. Passing Okahu we saw Eric heading out, and gave him a wave. Motor off, and we keep good speed as the wind has finally arrived. We hoist the kite for the very first time, and for a few moments everything is perfect! But some kind soul decided to put a large rock in the way. The big one just a bit south of Bean. Luckily there doesn't seem to be any hull damage or leaks, but I do require some surgery on the centreboards. The port one has a small bite out of the end, and I now own two short boards for the other side. Big thanks to erice for checking up on us! ???? Does anyone have any old GBE boards sitting in the back of the garage? Maybe I should have brought a waitemata local along for the ride. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
erice 732 Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 must have been hundreds of groundings there many boats ALWAYS go around bean rock light house a bit like brown's island but the channel is marked and if you know the tides and your draft, it's no issue harbor-bean rock-no-no-no-green triangle - yes, yes, yes - red square, no-no-no-no, red square- beach bit gut wrenching to watch, kept expecting you to gybe for the pass but instead you popped the shute, damn the torpedoes at low tide you can see the wash at high tide you'd go straight over but half tide... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 jeez - was it the carbon boards? Lucky the wind was light otherwise you'd have driven them through the through the back of the case! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madyottie 82 Posted August 30, 2016 Author Share Posted August 30, 2016 Yep, sure was! As good as those boards look, they broke and the hulls are undamaged. They are certainly nowhere even close to the strength we had in the foils for the '14. That said, we could stand two full grown large adults on the end of the skiff 'board and jump up and down. Lots. Frequently! Oh the joys of skinny boats and muddy river bottoms! And on a very windy day in Doubtless bay we jumped of a wave and the sideways impact sheared the rudder frame clean off the back of the boat. In retrospect we probably should have had weaker foils Unfortunately the guy who built them way back then doesn't work with 'glass anymore. He did show me how to build them tho! Now I just need to visit a bunch of hardware stores to find the right tools for the job! I must say I'm impressed with the performance. That fractional kite made a huge difference to our speed. It probably doubled it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dambo 44 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 harbor-bean rock-no-no-no-green triangle - yes, yes, yes - red square, no-no-no-no, red square- beach I must say; this is seriously cute Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Yeh - loved that kite! Can't recall now if the boards had sacrificial tips - but I guess you'll be able to see that now! Really surprised they broke . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Post some pics will ya Quote Link to post Share on other sites
erice 732 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 there's actually 2 channels inside bean rock both marker with green triangle and red square poles haven't been through the inside channel, but looks ok.... though you'd have to come up pretty smartly in either direction to avoid other reefs this is an opencpn screen grab of the free charts from linz as can be loaded on an android smart phone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madyottie 82 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Work is slowly progressing on the foil repairs. This was end of last week, I haven't heard anymore since then. This one broke about 20cm inside the case. Cross section... Fortunately the other board only had a small bite missing at the tip. A little epoxy and she'll be fine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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