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The older 508 and 608 wind sensors have the terminator built in. The current model WS310’s do not, they had a converter that plugs in to the bottom of the cable, then that plugs in as a normal drop cable. Was all to do with the max length drop being 6m, and mast cables being longer than that meaning it needed to be part of the backbone. The converter box means the N2k part of the WS310 wind cable is now short, so can be a drop. I’ve never seen or heard of a DST with built in terminator. Pretty sure that won’t exist - doesn’t have the need such as the wind does, as above. Very co

I haven’t seen many of the newer (post 1980?) Jav’s up for sale in a while, what is the state of the class now? There is a pretty cool classic called ‘Fantasy’ on Facebook marketplace at the moment though I just had a Mistral relocated from Auckland to Picton with South Island Couriers. Was on a beach trailer on top of its own road trailer, that came on the transporters own trailer. $900. Was worth every cent vrs. ferry, fuel, mileage and my time to drive and get it myself.

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.

You will have NZ laws and regulations to deal with also. You are not allowed to DIY AC electrical work, so will need to pay a qualified AC electrician, who will likely want to supply the parts too. Same for any LPG work. Also, any AC electrical item must be approved as complying to NZ rules. If no one has imported the exact item before, it won’t be complied. If it doesn’t have an NZ plug on it, it doesn’t comply even if the model has been approved with a NZ plug. Perhaps no one will check, so you will get away with it unless the item causes an issue. This applies to gas appliances also, so ag

One other thing to think about is power. Many of the boats in your budget will have very old electrics, does it need a rewire? Does it have an electrical wof for plugging in at a marina from time to time? Are there enough batteries? How will you charge them? Unlikely to get a genset, so you’d rely on solar and the main engine. How much space is there for solar? You maybe need quite a bit, $1k+? Would you need to have a solar arch built? +3k more? Then you’ll still need the main engine, standard regulator on factory alternator? That’ll need quite a few hours at idle, or even at crusing revs to

I have read some but not all the novels written on your various posts. I think your budget is way too low for what you want to do. And your ideas still seem very scattered for someone giving themselves 2 months to buy from your position. A boat in your budget will likely have many major systems on the brink. Any one of them could need half of your budget plus to remedy. You say you have more money to fix, I’d tend to be looking at buying the best you can afford, not buying cheap and fixing, which will cost more in the end for certain. Imagine two boats of the same design and age are for

There are only a few that meet the standard for marine installations. This rules most if not all of the cheap ones out. The only ones I’ve seen in NZ are Mastervolt, Victron and the more expensive Juice ones. There may be others now, I haven’t kept up lately. The main trait that rules the others out is that they need to sound an alarm before the battery management turns off for any reason. The cheaper ones have no output for this. The Mastervolt ones have an Ethernet output to connect an Easyview5, for example, that will sound an alarm, and also a high / low voltage output signal to trigger an

It’s a B&G, 508 model by the looks. 608’s look the same and use the same bearing, mast cable and base. The complete 608 unit is still available as a spare.

Agreed Screwball. Who ever said 13.8v kills them doesn’t know what they are talking about. Their own alternator supplies over 14v. Actually, reconsidering, maybe they do know what they’re talking about….

Your not suggesting that the east coast would be a good idea for the race are you? The navy have said their boats got bashed going round there to help. An incident requiring assistance (from a Provence in a SOE) would be a PR disaster for a race which has good PR and reputation, and for sailing / sailors in general. From Katana’s blog - hardly sounds like he’s in race mode. 4knsb Tue Feb 28 2023 The other advantage of going slow is to avoid damage if I hit a log. Just seen a few big ones. Had hoped 30nm offshore would be safe…mmm East Cape Wed Mar

Yeah, just call TCC and do as they say. They do heaps, and just get stuff done.