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Have serious FOMO, wish I could be there on the start line to take photos of the 116 boats entered!

Kick is racing, don't fancy our chances against the longer waterline length and canting keel boats with current forecast.....

And also like perfect Storm, I've temporarily misplaced my triangle crew, not my wife, I'm not as careless as he is. But have a new gun on board who apparently remembers how to sail.

Shimmer is racing like Perfect storm its all unloading 10 trolleys of cruising gear then loading on almost as much race sails fingers crossed the breeze goes north on saturday and we get more on the wind than the present forecast very reachy

Needing a #1 #3 and a mh kite

General Lee was never going to do the triple series.... the co-owners will be racing the mighty Hard Labour once more. There is no set programme yet for General Lee, the plan is to get her looking good, sounding great and back sailing... once that's achieved then we will look at what racing we want to do. Seen to many people state all these races they are going to do and they are never ready... We will get the boat ready then decide on the races and challenges to take on!!! But you can bet the boys are pretty excited to see what the General Lee can do.... https://www.faceb

I'm there on Motorboat III.

Nope not entered. Maybe getting ready for RNI though...

Most of the LiFEPo set up in the land yacht was done by HMB Electrical, (Hope I'm not breaking protocol in mentioning them but they were good) I did the battery box and one or two minor items myself after consultation with their contracted inspector who issued the EWOF. So yes there was an element of DIY but that was done per the inspectors guidance mostly to ensure there were no surprises for either party. Since I was initially intimidated by the seemingly complex circuitry I was hoping to be a bit dumb about it, pay some money and get a "turn-key package" . I should have known better Tu

Thing is professional installers are reluctant to certify a diy as they didn’t do it and more to the point, didn’t get compensated for it. Why should their warranty cover something that is their core business yet they missed out on bulk margin? I guess there are installers that may but they will check every circuit and cascading fail safes consequently charging heaps to the extent they may as well have done it. I wouldn’t warranty someone else’s work. It’s grief you just don’t need. No reflection on the diyer. Based on that, I am somewhat disingenuous expecting the insurance co t

Couple of yachts on the hard at Westypark looking like they may be getting ready -General Lee and Higher Ground

Me too

The good thing bout installing yourself is when you are 500 miles from shore and it breaks you at least have a fighting chance of fixing it or making a safe work around. DIY is fine as long as its well researched, and as I often do with some professional input and/or oversight. Does the inspector fail it because it was DIY or fail it because it doesn't meet the standard? If I was paying someone to do it - then i would use Matt (but he is so far away!)

Im pumped. First racing in the boat since Northern Triangle. Spent Saturday unloading cruising gear and loading on race sails. Normal co skipper (wife) out for first 2 races, so have a super sub flying up from Nelson. Every night this week is continuing race prep. Last night was spent sewing a stronger lee cloth, now just need to fill diesel, audit safety gear, clean bottom, remove more cruising gear, fit jacklines, remember how to sail, tidy away tools, bail out the rain water, go to briefing, get some food (although not much, looks like a nice reach sail). And beer. Get some

Oi!! Serious lack of excitement this year. Lets get into it. It's not that cold. Very reachy reachy course at this early stage.

Aha, a big silver box.

Here is a pic of how the system works...

Electric.

Nope. There will be a heat exchanger between fridge and freezer. Not yet installed. I'll post a pic when it is, but there are 2 50mm dia tubes between fridge and freezer. There will be a SS plate/cover over them on freezer side, and on fridge side a temp controlled fan takes air from top of fridge, blows it across the plate in freezer, returns it to fridge. There is no air exchanged between fridge and freezer, as that causes frosting. Basically the fridge runs as a parasitical load from freezer. So both cabinets from the one condenser...

I can't see a plate in the fridge? I assume that's the freezer with the plates in it? Do you have fans cooling the fridge from the centre holdover plate?

Is ozefridge electric compressor or boat motor driven?

Its an Ozefridge. Its air cooled until the condenser reaches 38 deg, then it swaps to water (fresh water, borrowed then returned to the tank). Uses eutectic tanks for holdover. Once finished, I hope to be back to one run per day, about 30% of the time in the tropics, less here in NZ... Does not really use the water cooling in NZ, except sometimes in mid summer.

How is your fridge cooled?

For another discussion so we don't get side tracked, I still dont agree that public standards should be behind a paywall. Once upon a time you could go the govt bookshop behind the St James and get or order pretty much whatever publication by any ministry for a nominal fee. Thanks for the library tip CD, you're right we have a pretty good idea of what and how.

Whether you know the rules or not , insurance companies will give you the cold shoulder if you diy without a commercial installer’s certification of proficiency . (Ime, anyway) And they have little comprehension of AYBC E13. Not that there is much to follow. As CD said, he and IT have covered the niceties. Not that it will help the diyers with insurance even if you blind them with contingency electrical engineering. Btw, I used to pay $300 every so often for updates to NZS3604, seems they are mostly free now. Guess there’s not much point in having “industry best practice” behind a pa