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Timberwolfy

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  1. yesterday's meeting was a full house too. not standing-room-only like last November's, but every chair was taken yesterday. yes, we have work to do to make sure the hardstand is re-established in the most effective way possible. it was a massive accomplishment to even get the board to listen. huge thanks to everyone who has put their time into this effort.
  2. I was merely riffing off your comment that, "If a golf course, rugby field, cricket pitch, skate park, basketball court was under utilised and better served the community as something else then yes that should at the very least be explored." You are either moving the goalposts or creating a strawman argument by saying now, no, you mean a skate shop. But hey, I'm impressed you've stuck around so long after announcing you won't be back, so I will amend my metaphor to work within your changed parameters: If a skate school pushed for the closure of the skate shop next door so they had more sp
  3. That would be equally hilarious and infuriating that it got that far. This whole situation is an ugly bad dream for me. https://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/news/landing-okahu-bay-last-chance-have-your-say
  4. And if a LOT of skateboarders turned up to the local board meeting about closing the skatepark and said, "hey this is our only safe spot to board in our community! we get huge value out of this space and if you take it away we are going to have to use footpaths and roads or give up our hobby entirely," I would really hope the local board would listen and come to a compromise. Not sit through their speeches, then tell the rest of the board before they voted that he'd still be voting to close it (shoutout to OLB Chair Scott Milne for doing exactly that last year).
  5. Calling the content of this thread an "echo chamber" is a bit silly when every Auckland sailor I know (except those on the RAYC committee), every Auckland club (except, again, RAYC), and YNZ, are all saying this closure is a poor decision and they do not support it... Add in how you keep claiming the link between Howard Spencer's openly declared interests in the Trust and Tamaki Marine Park are a conspiracy theory, and aye yi yi, it makes me feel like I'm back in America with Trumpian politics: call those with the majority opinion conspiracy theorists in an echo chamber and use your money to t
  6. Okahu sailor, you encourage me to "encourage the Council to allow club yards to expand their footprints," when I am encouraging the council to simply maintain (or honestly, even reduce somewhat, but not remove) their yard's footprint. You sound like a NIMBY, to which I can only say: "okay, boomer." Pull your head in mate.
  7. Closing boatyards in the name of supporting people having access to the water is cutting off your nose to spite your face too, don't you think?
  8. Ahhh so that explains why some of these places weren't suggested to me when I was asking anyone and everyone during my hunt 🤦‍♀️
  9. Of course the closure is in the club's best interests -- they are interested in money and a bigger carpark. None of those dirty DIY yachties. Melges 40s craning out at Tamaki Marine Park are the way of the future for "the fortunate few" as you call them! https://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2022/12/20221208_OR_AGN_11150_AT_files/20221208_OR_AGN_11150_AT_Attachment_91434_4.PDF Page 2 (by document page numbers; 5th page of the pdf file): "When all boats are antifouled annually, capacity is 33% of the fleet for Auckland" "Relevant points from the distanc
  10. Lol, I'd love to know how many people were on the committee that wrote this simpering drivel. "The exclusive use of a fortunate few..." Give me a break! I'd love to compare how many boats moved through that space annually in order to keep themselves running for cruising and racing, then add up how many people got access to the water from attending said cruises and races, against your tally of dinghies and paddlers and the like. Only then could possibly I be willing to hear out your argument in good faith. And for the record, I *have* spent a *lot* of sunny weekends there in the last
  11. Well, I've been asked to comment and if you know me, you know I love to comment... Yes, please fill the survey out, folks! select that "strongly support" option when it asks about the hardstand, tell them it's insane to propose a $10mil park when they have no money to do so! The boatyard is so, so critical to local boats, particularly (and, I admit, very selfishly) multihulls. It's an absolute farce that a certain chair of a certain Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust seems to have the Orakei Local Board wrapped around their finger, and it's utterly tragic but most RAYC members an
  12. Yeah, Fish, that kind of girl! ???? Am one of two women in the regular 8.5 fleet here in Auckland. We were the only boat to go out today (gusting high 30's). Took great pleasure in telling the other crews to woman up and stop being a bunch of a boys ???? And if you know me, you'll know those comments were dripping in love and sarcasm. Equality for all! What's between your legs has zero impact on how you sail a boat!! (I can't believe I have to explain this to some people!)
  13. put my new (to me) winches on! was initially happy but after sailing Westhaven to Waiheke on them I felt like the self-tailers were in the wrong position, so I shuffled them around. in doing so I over-tightened them onto the base so the drums weren't turning smoothly, and then sheared the head off a bolt off while adjusting them again to allow room for the drums. so, that was fun. fixed it all up now and relatively happy. they're a little bit big for the boat (beggars can't be choosers when you find a pair of winches for $150 at the car boot sale) so I need bigger sheets if I want to r
  14. Ahhh haha getting into the long shelf-life food and I discover I failed to bring a can opener. No tomatoes for me Also forgot ice during my departure but fortunately realized it right when I got to Westhaven, and could swing by the cafe at Z Pier.
  15. I'm from Chicago. These are not unfamiliar conditions (2+ meter seas), but they are not particularly common. Also, the air might be warm but the lake is 900ft/280m deep and it does not warm up. Surface temps are around 65ºF/18ºC right now (https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=m&ext=swt&type=N&hr=36 sidenote: I really miss having a gov't that obsessively tracks this data; NOAA is amazing) We used to go by the 50-50-50 rule: 50 minutes in 50 degree water (that's 10ºC) means a 50% chance of survival. Lot of sailing deaths this year. Be safe out there, folks
  16. they did it! so good. I'm so happy and proud of them and I seriously want to install a pedal drive...
  17. prone paddleboard bro pulled out, sadly he went aground and re-injured some old injuries, I think? he's 64, so the fact that he made it anywhere at all is SO impressive. I'm totally in love with this race, and super keen to do it sometime as well. if anyone is putting a team together, let me know!
  18. ohhhh no! I thought it was rough when I had to take my mom to the emergency optometrist for supergluing her eye shut (turns out superglue can come in little bottles that are identical to eye drops). That was solved by a lot of vaseline. I hope you recover fully! And yes... how?! Current achievements: 3 coats of primer and a sanded hull that's now back bobbing around in seawater. I hauled out yesterday and was just about to open the tin of antifoul when the storm that had been threatening Auckland made good on its threats and shat all over Merc, me, and my best-laid plans.
  19. I resisted a lot of really bad jokes for the title... So, I posted about this last year (http://crew.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic/14945-reinforcing-mast-base/) and promised everyone it was the next thing on my list to repair, and here I am making good on that promise, 7 months later... To recap quickly: my mast has compressed the spine of my kauri boat and is modelling itself after the leaning tower of Pisa. It makes for interesting pointing. I got a lot of great advice in my last thread and have opted to cut out the compressed wood and replace with a new piece. But... I don't
  20. couple weeks ago I was working late on bored when I started hearing similar noises, though to a far lesser extent. best bit was when I could hear one thumping against the hull. almost made me not want to install the stereo system... (I bought speakers the next day)
  21. I've got Musto. I purchased the previous season's jacket on clearance from waveinn.com, and (touch wood) and it's currently on year 4 (racing 1-2 or more times per week) with no sign of weakening. When I was ocean racing, most people had HPX. They all agreed it was amazing when things got really hairy, but somewhat overkill for everything else. I think you will be fine in MPX considering what you're looking to do. Maybe go and try it on at a chandlery and see? This post has reminded me again that I need new bibs... Sigh. Goodbye, paycheck. I hardly knew thee. Oh, and if you don't c
  22. https://livesaildie.com/david-witt-speaks-out-regarding-the-leg-7-tragedy/ this is not an easy watch he seems pretty haunted by it all... and rightly so because it sounds like a nightmare...
  23. only the best, Zozza and those are some great highdeas if I ever read any!
  24. or outboard sheeting? I can't see a second set of cars though...
  25. I have done a decent amount of international travel with my lifejacket and had no issues. Sometimes I took the cartridges out and left them on top of the jacket in a plastic baggie (looking at you, American TSA), other times I left them "plugged in." Once I left my knife attached to the jacket (grateful I didn't end up in Malaysian jail for that one...) This is all to say, YMMV, especially considering this is my experience with a jacket, not a raft. You can always ring the airlines or airport and ask what their requirements are for liferafts. I'm not surprised they're strict, but you'd
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