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Scratch that. Update now on Facebook. Wow, what an exciting and interesting start to the Ray White New Plymouth Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge. Malcolm Dickson on Sarau tacked on the start line to be the first to cross. Mister Lucky laid the mark in a single tack, being the first to round. The fleet disappeared quickly over the horizon in 15kn from the NW. As darkness fell Sarau was heading NW with 5 of the fleet following a more westerly direction, converging close together. An IRC dual was occurring between Mister Lucky and Melting Pot. Allegresse returned to port late a

I never gave any of those a thought. I just loved being there. The interior was non standard when built, more living space and fewer beds. My suggestion whatever you buy is live with it for 12 months before doing anything. Making even the smallest change is expensive and tedious so take that 1st year to find out you don't really need to do it.

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Don’t give yourself a time limit. As you near on the deadline you will feel more and more under pressure to buy and the odds of buying a lemon are massively increased.

I find it ironic that they want to ping us the responsible boat owners while ignoring the commercial shipping coming and going with infestations on a hull 50-100 times the size of your average yacht. And they dump ballast water spreading the crap far faster than we could ever do. Not helped by the commercial pressures applied by commercial operators to continue to operate in council environments. I'm thinking it would be better to target the commercial end users; lets face it there are tens of thousands of them so paying cents on the dollar wouldn't be a big deal. The aver

Moving fouled boats only applies if you then clean the hull in the new location. Marine fouling stays put on the hull. Sure, the bloody things reproduce, but they do it by laying eggs in the water, so on your hull or the marina, it's the same. Clearly I don't pick up organisms when I'm out sailing, so I get infected from the marina itself. And some marinas have the cheek to say that you cannot clean your hull in the marina. Its" please go elsewhere to do it, and spread the stuff even further"

That's a novel. Good to get the background though. Pulling back to coastal significantly changes the picture and your budget becomes far more realistic. Still tight though. Now you have a more defined target, I'd say look at lots of yachts in the size range you are looking at. Rule out nothing. Most NZ yachts are built in the performance cruiser mold and your requirements fall just outside that model. However, it's a continuum not a fixed point so your boat is out there somewhere. Don Senior, Lidgard, and others built beamy cruisers with good headroom. There are many more.

Good on you for having the the dream its where most of us started, as well as being a yachtie I did a bit of cycling for a few years, and a mechanic once told me to think of a bike as a frame with a collection of parts. Those parts can be old, or new, expensive or cheap, flogged or unserviceable, obsolete or otherwise etc, you can easily spend 20K on a pushbike but cheap and cheerful or worth 20K both will get you to the dairy for a pint of milk and technically you are "Cycling" Yachts are a bit like that , you can get a floating 40 ft yacht for <30K and it will be technically complet

Sounds like you read the Lotus Eaters too many times. The economics of liveaboard crising are not as they are depicted on YouTube. As IT says above, getting to Cat 1 (off-shore) could cost up to twice your stated purchase budget, or may not even be attainable depending on the yacht. In your price range, you wiill be getting a very used vessel. It will be either badly compromised in design, or nearing the end of its service life. Thats fine in sheltered waters within easy range of whatever you call home. Outside that, its a recipe for disaster. Operating costs alone for a 35

Sorry to sound pessimistic, but unfortunately I do not believe this is realistic. To have a vessel capable of RNZ or to the Pacific requires a boat in good order and well equipped. To go international you need to have a boat surveyed to Cat 1 standard, or you won't be given the paperwork to leave. The first time I did Cat 1 it cost me more than your budget to buy a boat, and my boat was already pretty tidy. Unless you buy a vessel registered offshore (Cat 1 not then required - but for a NZ resident GST would be immediately due), in which case you MAY find something, but it wont

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116638559/why-is-auckland-council-so-eager-to-sell-prime-waterfront-real-estate-to-a-millionaire-developer have a read, and support us. It's not just about one

Piles are going in the bin soon and how many youngsters have got the coin to pay the fees ,not many if any. Hence the popularity of Milford etc. Resources will be further stretched when Okahu Bay becomes mooring free. My point is that yachting is a sport and the Piedy is where many young people from all backgrounds start a life long passionate exciting journey. Lets not for the lust of a few roubles create a sea of difficulty for others that want to go where we have been. Apologies for the thread drift...

Yup, the diver issue joins many that continue to surface at the facility. You can still wipe your own bum but that will most probably join the list of lost causes if it has not already. Costs of berths, parking ,power compliance and wildlife risks...what next. One of my pet rants is how the Piedy fleet are consigned to the tidal vagrancies of the Milford Marina and risky swing moorings whilst the whopper stink pot sales berth dominates a prime corner of the facility. The mullet boats rightly get pride of place but the single largest and cheapest feeder design for the young of us to get out