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I have seen a couple of masts where people have tried similar ideas, with varying levels of non succsessful results. I'm not sure about the 'ignore the wires' part. They should be in a conduit, if so, you will be lucky if the bog mix seals completely around the conduit (normally an approximately 1"od alloy tube riveted to the inside of the mast). If you don't have a conduit for the wires, again you would be lucky if the bog seals around each wire, but secondly, you will be condemning yourself to pulling the mast out and removing the whole mess you you need to run a new wire in the mast. If yo

Maybe on a nice day, not so much in the conditions you are likely to need it. I had a 7.5m 600kg sport boat with very low windage, a 5hp 2 stroke pushed it at 6+ knots easy in light wind, motoring into 30 knots of wind it would be lucky to do 2 knots in flat water with no tide, I imagine in a heavy 30 foot scooner with relativly high windage you would be luck to make headway into 20 knots with flat sea.

We would all like no greater responsibility than pointlessly sailing around all day, we all have a love of sailing, what makes you a worthy cause for people to delay their ambitions to go to work so they can give you money? Also, reading your other thread, I would think you should not use your motor until you fix the diesel pump issue and do an oil change.

Buy / Aquire an old inflatable dinghy with the floor ripped out. Remove the transom and floor completely and your done? I'm assuming you mean so you can take the zephyr as a dinghy behind a keeler, but don't want the zephyr to bump the keeler when it's not being sailed?

I just brought a r830 with one the like SD linked to. Will be a few weeks u til I can use it in anger to report on it, but previous owner seemed happy with it, he installed one on his last 2 boats, both 830's.

I watched a doco on a couple of young Norwegian guys a few years ago called North of the sun. They spent a winter living on a beach in the arctic circle, in dark and freezing conditions. The spent their time snowboarding on the hill behind the beach, and surfing (wearing thick dive wetsuits). When they got there, you could hardly see any sand. Currents made it a natural dumping ground for anything floating in the ocean. They made quite a sofiaticated hut out of debris that washed up. Over winter, made a wheelbarrow of sorts out of rubbish, and gathered 3 tonne of rubbish, then had it helicopte

In Picton / Marlborough, Richard Clausen. He's doing one for me today. Contact him through Elite Refinishing - he has just sold his business, Clausen boatbuilders, to Elite Refinishing, but is still doing surveys. Or pm me for his number.

I installed one for a guy once, can't say it was that exact one / brand, and it was a while ago, but the components looked similar. It's was ready to go too, not diy build. The guy had some interesting ideas, and said he was going to be the import agent for them, as well as externally mounted bow thrusters (he had me wire up one of those too). He otherwise had no involvement with the industry. The boat grew fur (say 20mm thick, light weed) just as fast as any other, and the transducer itself had 2 to 3 foot long weed after a few months, the thruster got really covered also, lots of intricate s

So the micro switches 3 connections were 1- common, 2 - joined to common with the micro switch arm pressed in 3 - joined to common with the micro switch arm not pressed in Ie, 'normally open' and 'normally closed' contacts. That's how the ones I play with are anyway. Connecting one to earth would have been less than great advice.

He is an Olympic gold medalist in rowing, so has been in boats before, quite tippy boats even, but I think no sailing. Being a Picton lad I'd imagine he likely went fishing at least occasionally..... Recruited for his fitness post rowing, similar to Rob Waddell. I guess it shows what a huge role fitness and strength play in racing at that level in those boats.

Does it occur to anyone else, that with all the recent noise about what YNZ do / don't do for the average non racing boater, that this would be a great opportunity for them to get involved as advocates for all boaties, and ensure we have a voice against silly rules, lack of consistency, an input into new standards or revisions etc. seems glaring obvious way for them to be able to stand up and say 'we effected change that will save all marina based boat owners $$$$'. We otherwise lack a combined voice to challenge things like this. Are YNZ not our combined voice?

Some of the smart chargers link AC earth to DC negative, that's why CTEK now do a marine charger that does not link them. It also doesn't cost much different to the standard charger - no 'marine' = usual price^2. Good on them.

'Team NZ brace for impact as boat powers into chaotic nosedive on Bermuda waters' Did I miss the chaos? Not ideal surely. But no chaos. Overhyped click bait headline like normal.

Yes. For boats up to 32' with a tiller.

You and wheels are in another planet. The leading marine electronics brands spend MILLIONS on R&D, as IT said. Why would they share the results of their hard work? Buying cheap components from china wouldn't be an option if china hadn't copied someone else's hard work, or the idea for the item in the first place. Do you think the knock off manufacturers pay a royalty back to the company that did the R&D? Do you realise if someone hadnt put the R&D into making AP's in the first place, we wouldn't have them at all. Does that person not deserve a reward for their time, money and risk

For sure Ferrari, come on Wheels. If slanty's nifty machine fails next week. He will say 'oh well', that component cost $X, I'll put a new one in / up-spec / learn from failure and improve, part of the fun. If your B&G fails after 3 years, your furious, plus they make heaps of them. They all fail, they start crashing / crash tacking or gybing boats, boats are damaged or people are hurt the manufacturer have big issues. Their kit is full of programming, slanty has the benefit of someone else's base script to use, its complex, but the system is reasonably basic, in that it has no NMEA in or

He did question it later, not an official dispute, but a phone call asking for clarification. He was pointed to the harbour regs: 'The master of every vessel from which dive operations are in progress must ensure that Flag A is displayed in such a manner that it can be clearly identified by the watch keeper or lookout from another vessel at a distance in excess of 200 metres.', without defining what dive ops means. Swimming is ok, BUT not 'within any designated anchorage or mooring area'....... hmmmmmm.....

You need a dive flag to snorkel in Marlborough already, but only if you enter the water from a boat, if you walk in off the land, no need. A mate has a kind letter from the harbour master and a dented bank balance to prove it.

As far as I can tell, the current version is from 2014, with an amendment in July 2015. I started reading it again yesterday, but it put me to sleep in less than an hour. There are a fair number of hard to follow rules so far (up to page 39 of about 80). For example: batteries must be installed in a manner they are open to free air. If this is impractical they must be in a sealed box and have mechanical ventilation, even if batteries are sealed type. Vent duct must lead straight to open air with bends no more than 45 deg. Minimum exhaust vent rate (qv) for forced ventilation is calculated as

+1 I hear those have very good VMG, even to windward.

Well.... yes I'm sure that helped, but if that was all there was to it wouldn't they have led the whole race? As well as being 60' long, it weighs over 22 tone(?) and is a very comfy looking cruiser, which sailed past Wedgetail - a well respected race boat, at well over twice their speed, surely there is more to it that just waterline length? Tactics? Some description of huge extra sail? Both crew up all night pushing hard?

Any guesses as to what else happened overnight? Did Celadon anchor (in the cable protection zone maybe)? How did Laissez Faire get passed everyone? Motor? Looks like Ilex has rejoined? Did they just stop overnight for a good rest, sail in and out of the port? What time will the tide hit the flush button or will there be enough wind today? The wind has swung back to the north which should help. Did the whole of Wellington city get woken up at 6am by the party on the Sunfast? They did very well, must be stoked.

Have to feel for Blink right now it's fairly hard to watch on the tracker, let alone being out there drifting around. They got sooo close to Scarlet, only to get left behind, which must hurt on an epic boat like Blink.

I thought that was possible too, seems unlikely now with Miss Scarlett heading the wrong way too. Sorry Farina, obvious now I read your comment again, think you have the winning theory at the moment. What will / can Blink do to avoid it? Looks like Booboo and Damon lured div 2 in for a raft up with the promise of huge amounts of rum, then when they got close enough, grabbed all the wind and buggered off into the distance... tactical brilliance.

Farina, where do you get your wind info from? They will be hirting if it is just tide and no wind, they are going backwards at 3 knots, and Miss Scarlet going forward at 3 knots. If they wait long enough, I'm sure Blink will be pleased to show them the way.