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Finally got around to going sailing…

Getting colder and harder to do stuff now. Haven't been stuck yet with bay freezing to about 1/2 inch overnight . Locals keep saying it will get cold soon! Shortest day not far away.

Thanks Frank, she gets along pretty well too.

Yup a Dickinson heater, 3 inch flue. On the lowest setting the heater keeps the inside at 15 to 20 degrees above outside temperature. Tested down to minus 10 C although coldest this trip is mini 6 so far. Got a good cold snap over Alaska just started. Forecasting down to minus 20 where we are. great simple heaters the Dickinson and fitted to most of the local commercial boats here who report they are fine over winter. We also have a second heating system independent of the Dickinson.

The carbon won't be the problem, it will be pine flexing/crushing under it. then causing the carbon to compress. Idealy you would have a denser timber strip where the carbon is going, like yellow cedar, mahogany, Kauri .... You will get away with pine or western red cedar for the nose and trailing edge A lot of dinghys have one or two layers of carbon uni ( 300g ) you may want to go 3 or 4 Then a minimum of 295/300g glass over the whloe thing ( 2 layers of 200g boatcloth may be an easy option )

Ok, so we stripped the old finish off, sanded to 320 grit, and then pondered, struck with fear of the unknown I eventually mixed some bog-stock, off the shelf norski 4:1 epoxy, about 250ml finished mix. 5 minutes later it was steaming and exothermic like a champion. So I mixed about 80ml finished mix and applied it with a 35mm or there about a roller. And then repeated while the first coat was tacky. 24 hours later it was glossy but very orange peel-ish. Fortunately, it was sanding beautifully so I hit it with a 120 dry then 320 dry then 600 wet. It's now got a beautifu

Make marina berths more reasonably priced and more people will dock at Westhaven and race

nz figerjointed pine shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a marine inviroment.

FIGJAM

A successful event according to the competitors with a range of conditions , the Milford club relied on volunteers and loaned RIBs but pulled it off, interestingly Yachting NZ all of 200M away had a bunch of new chase /coach boats sitting idle at their base , and not offered to help out , but that is what we have come to expect from them -after all not an Olympic class only a world champs ! For those off us paying three or four times for affiliation fees each year rather galling....

Crap weather = varnish time my least favoured activity but it does give me the opportunity to get rid of the annoying masthead light cable slap using ones noodle.😀

The problem we have is that boat accidents whether they be from gas or a short, bad weather or bad seamanship or simply bad luck are very newsworthy. If floats and bleeds it most definitely leads. We also have battalions of political managers and petty bureaucrats who are believe that more rules are the answer to every single problem on planet earth. Thats why we get idiotic and contradicting proposals, which only make sense if you inhabit their cloistered universe. Moving on, standards should be clear, relevant, practical and accessible. Requirements for recreational vessels that don't

waterskiing takes on a whole new meaning

It's not clear to me why you would wait 6 weeks to hold the grand final at a venue renowned for not having wind. Noting that 'next season' starts in 4 weeks time in Perth. I guess the sports-washing money outweighs logic and a good event. The kids, especially Miss 12, has been super excited counting down to the final... almost fell asleep watching it. Brings back memories of the Americas Cup. And the most exciting thing was damage to the Blackfoils rudder in a collision with the Swiss, accept we didn't see it, there weren't any replays and it didn't appear to impact any results or st

Its a long story, but we needed more power on the boat. So decided to go Victron LiFePO4 2 x 300Ah 12v. Very happy with it so far - boiled a 1900W kettle and it cost me 1% SoC. Been running around checking stud temps and its staying at room temp or a little above so far.

A very sad event. This did make us have a think onboard our yacht. We have one self tailing power winch in the cockpit. The winch has the breaker inside the companionway so you can trip it easily. Self tailing also allows us to keep clear of lines and drum. Anchor windlass breaker is down aft, a long way from the capstan and control... We do have a remote control with no switches on deck, but obviously there is two solenoids below decks. Hopefully others have a think and discussion about this and their own boats.

At the time i was asking if anyone here had a contact in UK who could help with the boat for his family.

Having working for a National Yachting Body (Not Yachting NZ but overseas) the coach boat assets are quite often owned and operated by a seperate identity, not the same as club services etc. I'm not sure if this is the case for YNZ. Most don't lend out boats as where do you draw the line and whom do you say no to? It can get hugely political if it goes the other way as well

Since the Young's modulus of the uni carbon laminate is way higher than for any of the other materials you must assume the carbon takes the load alone. The curvature of the carbon in your figure is not a problem. https://www.reflectometrist.eu/pages/daggers/index.html /Martin

I'm all for poorly planned out projects but it's great to have the knowledge of people here to highlight the risks. Laying at night awake in the early hours puzzling is normally a good indication I need to ask for help.

Waikiore, would you please clarify, did the organisers ask YNZ for help and were turned down, or did the organiser actually have the problem solved through other arrangements.

Looks good! You could choose a durepox xtreme clear instead of a poly u. I just did my carbon spin pole with it. When I redo the tiller I will swap out the polyu for the durepox now that I am familiar with it. Burnsco have the high performance clear which isn't as good as the xtreme but it's still pretty good. you'll need to get the xtreme from Resene Automotive. It's got rock solid uv protection.

Rainbird is up the Tamaki River last I heard and doing very well, the owner is a boatbuilder.

Past AS/NZS 3004.2 standards do not have a retrospectivity clause either (unlike AS/NZS 5601 Gas installations cl 1.3). Standards in general only apply to new work unless legislation has a specific back dating requirement. Bringing old buildings up to compliance with current earthquake code is an example of this.

Thank you for expanding my vocabulary I did look it up before I posted but could not see how it applied - now I get it.

RNZ did a piece on this today.

These evenings?

After all that get a cover for it unless it lives down below when not in use

My wife chose it...and arranged all the work.....

Asking and selling prices can be very different things