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How do you manage sleeping?

Do you intend to do long single handed passages?

That is epic. I'd love to have a close up look. But maybe in a marina, rather than a raft up.

Is a Vessel stamp something official? Also, Jon, I did enjoy the change between your first sentence and your last.

Hi BK, I know someone heading to Suva in a week. Transiting Auckland Airport. Is that helpful? I guess it’d need to be dropped to them at the airport, at the right time, and collected from Suva on arrival.

Get rid of the vsr and parallel switch? jumper leads??? 🥴 some of the things you suggest might be considered ‘best practice’ by some, but I think on simple boats are unneccesary, over complicated and more expensive for little gain. My basic yacht go to is vsr, start, house and parallel (plus winch etc) switches (better yet BEP’s new(ish) 772-DBC), and ideally a smart alt. reg if within the budget. I routinely get 10 years out of the good brand of AGM’s I prefer to use, that’s with combined charging via the vsr. All programmable charging set for the house bank.

Yeah, that will work. I’ve seen it done with the BEP VSR’s. One side powers the VSR, that side must be to your supply voltage, or the VSR wont work.

They come into force in 11 days. I’m not sure ‘well signalled’ is an available option anymore.

Ah. Of course. Doubling the bureaucracy should have been my starting point. Silly me.

If there is a silver lining to all of this, it might be that the numbers for the next Auckland - Fiji / Noumea / ‘anywhere but here’ race are much better than in recent history.

Yeah, agreed. No way everyone driving themselves would have worked, but isn’t that my point? SGP all but got control of the town. Lyttleton’s maybe never he so many people, bar maybe cruise ships, but the main street was dead. There was no where free to get up close. The other side of the harbour, sumner road or in houses up the hill, long way away. I don’t think Auckland would be so flexible to allow sgp such control of numerous areas. Take over part of Silo park, half the car park on the northern side of westhaven for grandstands (sorry about the parking boat owners), means clo

I think that might have been part of the problem. Sail GP want every seat with a view to pay an admission fee for a seat in a grandstand or more $$ spot. There are too many places in the harbour to view for free from. Think that’s why Lyttelton worked so well for Sgp. The council, I assume agreed, to the tunnel being closed to nearly all but locals, so to get out there you took a SGP provided bus to the SGP provided viewing area.

You must be joking? I assume he must have taken a massive dump that blocked and broke the poo pipe too?

Seems to me there is a disconnect between the words and the intent. Other than the title of that section of rules reading ‘Steering and Sailing’, I can’t see anything that says the proper lookout excludes anchored boats. It says ‘all boats at all times’. So, if we accept MNZ’s ‘new’ interpretation, does ‘all boats ant all times’ also include boats on swing moorings? Pile moorings? Marina berths? Where does it end? Hardstand, trailer? That’s surely not the intent, but the intent is not spelt out even poorly, let alone well.

Unless he wants work done by a pro - gas or AC he can’t do himself, then it is far cheaper at a marina, assuming he can find a tradie who would come to his mooring to compare the cost too anyway - it takes much longer to get to the boat, to return for extra bits or tools, and it typically risks getting the tradies gear wet on the dinghy ride, which is unpopular.