Timberwolfy

neither! just spitballing. though according to the Auckland rumour mill I purchased a Piedy a few months ago and the Ross 930 Mean Streak in the last few weeks 🤣

beautiful! reckon my next boat won't mind carrying something as weighty as that around! (and will have a chart table) lol

yeah I picked up a couple the other week and looking at them I am wondering, do I put them up on the bulkhead or make neat art to go in the Timberwolf Memories Collection

kia ora! curious about people's opinions on bulkhead plaques... most clubs are only printing them if skippers say they want them nowadays. when offered, do you accept them? do you mount them on your boat or store them elsewhere? do you keep them when you sell the boat? (asking for a friend... 😜)

she gone! off to Tampa, Florida, to live her best life in the Gulf of Mexico. goodbye to the hardest, coolest, fastest, weirdest project I've ever had. 💚💚💚🌲🐺 awoooo!!

so does this mean that all the opponents' arguments about how the boatyard is a toxic waste dump and that's why they want it shut were... lies? lies to get their way?! hmm... I no longer have a Wolf in this race so 🙃 I guess I get to watch the erasure of the infrastructure for Auckland's community of boaties from the sidelines now. still a bummer.

it was enough time for me to run to a bottle shop once when I forgot the rum haha

There's a visitor's berth next to the walking bridge (which is currently permanently open) that's free to use for 2 hours. Not sure how strict they are on that timing. Pretty sure it's first in best dressed, and you just have to ring up VHF 73 to see if it's available

Viaduct has a visitor's berth you could probably use if you can't find one in Westhaven (not sure if that's close enough to where you need to be of course). Can call their office to check

a yacht recently started using the mooring NE of Timberwolf; it might be them -- one of the regulars down there said he furled their jib up a few weeks ago but the drum is broken and he couldn't get it lashed. haven't met the owner yet 😕

What a wild five years I've had 😃 but it's time to turn my focus to something new. Boat's been listed on Facebook-land for a few weeks but I've had a few recent messages saying they hadn't seen it, so expanding the reach of my listing to make sure I'm capturing the NZ market without paying exorbitant TM fees. I'd love to see the old girl stay in New Zealand waters but it is not looking good. If you're keen to keep the multihull spirit strong in our fair country, please reach out! https://www.facebook.com/groups/196548290924954/posts/1550698342176602/

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.

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

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

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).