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  1. Ran for 45 mins , all sweet! Hooray. Just forgot to buy biocide, I can do that tomorrow.
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  2. Wetmaps is back!
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  3. I doubt there’ll be 5000 Jon. Racetrack has 900 boats. Maybe the same for members who don’t race to be really generous. So say 2000 members @ $30. Not even enough for an office lady. And what are we trying to achieve? There would have to be a dozen good reasons before you went down that track. Cruisers currently don’t belong to yacht clubs, or very few, what could this new entity do that would attract the cruiser to cough up. We’re a pretty miserable bunch. I’ve never really minded the multi club/ pay 2 or 3 times scenario if it’s helping the kids and the olympians. Good discussion.
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  4. Lovely Auckland summer shots , those Townsons do make the Gulf look good, and I may have built those Windrush 14's almost 50 years ago 🥺
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  5. Perfect weather for a sail around Kawau Bay and a swim to finish the day off. Fish aren't biting though.... it looks a bit barren based on what we saw snorkeling the last few days, but that said we had a kingfish lurking under our tender this morning about as long at the inflatable is wide!
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  6. That still excludes a lot of people who are not club members. Further the current structure dictates the procedure you describe. That in my experience attracts a certain personality type, that person then becomes part of the problem rather than the solution.
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  7. Can’t be done with that attitude 😊 If the keelboat,multi racing clubs and cruising clubs decide to break away the RRS don’t belong to YNZ As for funding YNZ don’t tell us the numbers, however if there are 5000 club members who all pay $30 plus a bit of corporate funding it would go a long way with predominantly volunteers Not saying that it would be easy but with some self ownership I think we would get much more investment. Most races/ cruising rallies are at a minimum 90% volunteer run now
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  8. They are largely funded by Olympic money, but forget all of us multi yacht club members who keep them going year by year, good example: when many moorings were proposed for Rakino amongst other spots AYBA went into legal battle for us the cruising boaties , YNZ did not murmur. With Cat 1 tipped out will three four and five follow or are we to self police within the clubs? Interestingly a number of the races that I enjoy each year are now run under Colregs with no luffing rules etc and we all enjoy them.
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  9. if they are supporting the cruising yachtie and club keelboater, I remain uninformed of any advocacy or programs. I would like YNZ to take an active role in opposing the current anti yacht ownership policies of the council et al. They seem very focused on gongs for dinghy clubs
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  10. Is there any commitment out there to diverge cruising and large boat sailing/racing from Dinghy racing ? Let YNZ keep dinghy racing / Olympics, which is what they are interested in and actually quite good at Then create Sailing New Zealand as a seperate entity to provide for big boat racing and cruising. ??
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