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    Chicago Mac Looks Rough . . (started today)

    in RaceTalk

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    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.

    R2AK 2018

    in RaceTalk

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    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! ;)

    This Weekend's Achievements

    in MarineTalk

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    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. the fellow who booked the floating dock this morning was unable to shift his booking later, so I had to re-launch at my scheduled time and re-book the dock for the afternoon. I have a feeling I'm about to spend more on this than it would have cost to pay someone to do it. I'd like to go back to sailing other people's boats now please, hahaha.

    in search of hard wood...

    in TechTalk

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    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 know where I can source the piece of hardwood from. Its dimensions are 25x140mm and I'm guessing anything over 500mm in length will do? (pic in the original thread; obligatory, "metric system is hard, base-12 measurements for life, USA-USA-USA," goes here).

     

    I've found a couple websites for wood recyclers (kauri warehouse was one), which I'd be happy to use if it will work. No qualms about buying new; I just like recycling :) New or used, I'm not 100% sure where to purchase the materials and would appreciate your suggestions!

    Thanks!

     

    Night time predators?

    in MarineTalk

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    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)

    Musto - but HPX or MPX?

    in ShortTalk

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    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 care about colour you can usually get white at a discount because it stains pretty much immediately.

    Purchasing a liferaft for Tasman delivery trip and then selling it?

    in MarineTalk

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    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 think they could relax a bit considering it's safety gear very similar to what a plane will already have on board.

     

     

    Sidenote: I would willingly throw myself overboard if it meant cuddles from either Branson or Theron...

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    Antifouling: where, what, how good, etc...

    in MarineTalk

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    Just scrubbed today!

     

    Westhaven piles, regular (albeit slow; she's only 7.5m!) year-round racing and cruising.

     

    Scraped 10 years of antifoul off in July and repainted with Ultra 2. I guess it's good I scraped, since I'd have been stuffed if it turned out the original job was soft and it all flaked off, but I do sort of regret it, as the old paint job wasn't in bad shape and I'm now down to primer and even fibreglass (gelcoat? Sorry, not sure how to tell the difference) in several large patches. The barnacles and weedy growth in those places are ROUGH, but the rest wipes down like a charm. Not sure what caused the paint to be weaker in those spots, though they are consistently on the south-facing side.

     

    5 weeks is about the longest I can leave her before she gets really painful to clean. Definitely need to establish a regimen for it.

     

    Thinking of going up on the floating dock for another coat of paint soon. That, or take stock of what major projects I need to do and go for a longer-term haulout to get more done. Also have been strongly considering coppercoat in the next couple years, but that's very hypothetical right now.

     

    I'm intriguing by your comment, wheels, that it matters if you paint before or after winter. Why is that?

    Shane strikes again

    in MarineTalk

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    This guy fascinated me when I first made an account here...!

     

    I've been wondering where he was off to.

     

    If there's no mental illness involved as you say, his actions are quite curious. So much effort... to gain what?

    Man overboard question

    in MarineTalk

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    we had the 50-50-50 rule in the States: 50 minutes in 50ºFahrenheit water gives you a 50% chance of survival. 50ºF is 10ºC, so adjust the time and temp values as needed and you can guesstimate the percentage.

     

    it's never a pretty picture. rule #1: stay on the boat!

    Tomorrow weather

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    what does a dog say? rough.

     

    I got really nervous around 10pm and was thinking maybe I should go check on her, looked at nowcasting and saw 46 gusting 60WNW.

     

    rowing out in that, in the dark, seemed like a poor choice... though it would have been a very quick trip.

     

    ...

     

    I'm glad I didn't have any sails on deck. worst case scenario, I'm buying new solar panels (left them tied down, d'oh). best case scenario they survived, or they ripped out my deck railings and I get new-new under insurance and a nightmare of rain-soaked holes to deal with.

    Westhaven Survey

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Marina crew has kind of dropped in quality since the start of the summer... any time I'm on board (piles) after 9pm they ask if I'm staying the night. Every time, I say, "no, thank you, I am aware of the rules and you have asked me this multiple times."

     

    Hit my boat and the boat next to mine with the patrol boat (why you would shift into neutral barely 3m directly upwind of a moored yacht in a 20kt blow is completely beyond me). Had to call the office to get the crew members' names because they suddenly lost interest in talking to me when I fended the patrol boat off with my foot and some choice words.

     

    Still a bit salty about that incident. Filed a complaint but didn't hear much about what came of it.

     

    Meanwhile rowing past high lines everywhere in sad conditions.

     

    Some of the guys are completely on point, though. Helpful, friendly, supportive. But a couple of them definitely drove me a bit nuts this summer.

    Melbourne Osaka

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    Oh and KM: they were allowed to suspend racing, divert, seek shelter, then reprovision anything used before returning to the point of suspension and resume racing with no penalty. Ocean Racing Club of Victoria handled it really well.

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