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Dont panic PW has new owners. I promise nothing but acoustic guitar will be heard coming from her now.

Funny, just randomly found this thread and realised that was me in the tender who told PW to STFU. I was trying to ignore the music but the two kids couldn't sleep. The owner/skipper seemed quite reasonable at the time and i was as surprised as anyone that the music actually stopped! To put this in perspective, this wasn't a regular or even top end stereo playing music; there was a PA speaker attached a few metres up the backstay going full bore. There's a difference between boisterous partying and deliberately inflicting your music choice on a whole anchorage. I hope the new owner

V5 will eat the Antipodes SC72. She is the same speed as a good Ker 40. Mayfair for 2nd.

The only remaining original Maori sail is coming home for a visit. https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/300926005/te-r-a-voyage-through-time-and-culture

imagine turning up to a squady race with a dow or canoe,nightmare for handcapper let alone ynz inspector.😀

May as well play the greatest hits!

This is interesting. Commitment! 10000000_243804898416488_2807236152043479977_n.mp4

It will be fine. Particularly if you are with a good dinghy club with others also making the same step up. Half of it is getting confidence around the increased size and speed. And once she has had a couple of capsizes and figured out how to right it life will be much more relaxed. We put a reef in our daughters main (1263) and she used it a lot. Even one day at the Kohi 50th Nationals. Ring if needed - I've had a bit to do with the Starling class in recent years. 0274 754 169

People all use their boats for different things. For some its a quiet weekend away, others its family time but there are a lot of people who go out to socialise and some that party pretty hard. If you go into a crowded anchorage then there is a good likelihood of coming across one or more of the later type of cruisers. I have done all of the different types of cruising, plenty of partying but more of the family cruising these days. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and tell other people they cant party on their boats just because my priorities have changed with 3 kids on board (and at the a