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FLC, I saw you on Whangaparaoa Rd, heading towards the marina I guess? She looks even better in reality. Great Job :thumbup:  

 

Ha ha - yes, not the smartest time of day to move an oversized load on an unregistered trailer... She is currently up on Scott Road. Most likely launch from the Weiti Boating Club as she is destined to be a riverboat. The finances can't stretch to a Marina berth, although after the initial launch I may rent one for a month to get all the systems working properly. 

 

Thanks for the compliment!

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Saturday, spent some time playing with my new toy and Sunday assembled the crew for a working bee on Sundreamer. All ready for Coastal. We were going to go for a sail but 30+ knots wasn't sitting well with the 10 on the Richter Scale hangover from the crew dinner the night before

 

How about this one SD a 1931 model?

 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/09/17/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1931-morgan-aero/?refer=hsxweekly

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Steps and bike look great KM!!

 

The previous weekend was not great for us. When we were all ready to out for the weekend, boat all loaded up, set to go, visitors on board, but then no fwd gear!! Not the linkages or anything simple - took out the gearshift mechanism (Volvo P 120S saildrive) and the selector dog was very badly worn. I figured that if that was the case the sliding selector was likely the same. The workshop manual says take the gearbox/SD out and put it in a press to remove the reverse gear collets, to get at the slide, using a V.P. specialist service tool. I figured I could probably do it in place, and save some $. Made a threaded press from some old timber, a bolt, some washers, and a deep reach socket. Took a couple of hours to remove the collets, gear and sliding selector. It was stuffed :-(

Off to the dealer, $1000 later, got the new parts overnight, reassembled, all working ok..

 

So, this last weekend was the real test - we had a great weekend, went sailing. :-) Great weather, although not heaps of wind, but enough to go! Gearshift worked fine, and we even rescued a broken 20ft fizz boat, and towed him home from Tiri

 

Hope spring is really here now, looking fwd to summer!

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learned something new yesterday

 

came back into okahu bay about 2pm 

 

10 knot? northerly so came in the west entrance and along the marina breakwater so could round up to the mooring,  about 100mt off the akarana's concrete ramp 

 

need a bit of turning space with vindil's fullish keel so was about 50mt off the concrete ramp

 

just about to start the turn and noticed the boat had stopped

 

engine was going........ prop was going round........... water was going past the hull

 

but boat didn't seem to be moving in relation to the land and though tiller was working and moving the prop-wash around, the boat wasn't changing course.....

 

looked at the sounder, 0.2mt,

 

looked at the tides, low tide at 2pm

 

grounded, or at least mudded

 

tried a few more revs in fwd and reverse but nothing but cloudy water was moving

 

beam on to the northerly and not far from the stone breakwater and concrete ramp so threw out the anchor + 7mt chain to wait 20min? for the tide to float us free

 

but decided the time would be better spend trying to kedge off 

 

so dumped the rest of the 30mtr of chain overboard after the anchor

 

got in the dinghy and pulled up all the chain and anchor to the back seat

 

rowed up wind to the mooring, feeding out the chain, then threw the anchor out

 

back on the boat put the chain in the gypsy and started hand cranking it back into the locker

 

anchor bit, the boat slewed round to line up with the chain and wind

 

bit more cranking and out of the mud we came, once the anchor was back up, started up and motored the last 20?mt to the mooring

 

obviously going to have to watch low tide approaches from now on  + and reset the sounder offset

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Ahh, that takes me back a few years.  

Used to own and race a Piedy many years ago when the prizes were always bottles of rum.  After every winter series race we used to tie up at the Akarana jetty and share out the winnings from the previous race.  Quite often there would be so many guys on one poor bugger's boat that the aft end of the cockpit would be awash.  

After one session, I let go to take the Piedy back to our mooring in Okahu.  We had a nine horse outboard on it and I opened it up to impress the boys with my boat handling skills.  Hit that same patch so hard it fired me from the cockpit through the companionway into the cabin.  They were very …errr…sympathetic.

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Thats funny , I spent 20 years odd in and around Okahu, haulouts etc. Lotsa stuff happened there, boats falling out of the Okahu haulage cradle, smashed up boats on the seawall or the ramp, grounding on a low tide just gets you entry to the kedgers club.

 

I installed one of them electric freezer kits into the existing compressor driven box on saturday and get this!

 

I did not hit a brine tank with a hole maker. I did not hit a plumbing with the same. I hooked it up and the boat didn't blow up. I turned it on and it worked.It took less time than I thought.

I was so damn pleased I dropped the lines and sailed to Izzy bay to try it out. Took ages ,there wasn't much wind but I did not HAVE to run the motor.!!!

 

Stuff made cold for free, all fed by solars.( lets just not talk about the capital expenditure to make it work, that would spoil the story)

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reducing sail area the old school way

 

probably take me 15? hours to lower the headboard 30cm on this $50 sail by cutting it down, moving the head panels and hand-sewing them back on

 

trick for young players, the dark strips of old double sided tape shouldn't be seen, as the reinforcement panels should be on the other side of the sail............next time

 

NEW SAIL SEW.jpg

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learned something new yesterday

 

came back into okahu bay about 2pm 

 

about 50mt off the concrete ramp

 

 

If you have navionics and turn on the 'sonar chart' you can see that big long blob of mud - the guys in the yard told me about it, there's also a rock that's roughly in line from the end of the jetty and your mooring about a third of the way from the jetty which isn't marked.  I used to take the Spencer up to the jetty but only 2 hours either side of HT and knew to always go wide of the sea wall.

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