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    Timberwolfy replied to ScottiE's topic in MarineTalk

    Pussy poo... I don't like that combination of words ???? Pile moorings people have it rough! We get annoyed at each other for using "our" trolley (because if you brought it down two hours ago, obviously it's still yours...), and everyone else gets annoyed with us for not taking them back up! It's a hard life. Some of us even have to row to our boats. ????
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    (PS please ignore my incorrect headsail number )
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    Singlehanded race last weekend. I finished, so I'm calling it a success! Got the kite up twice and successfully gybed it three times, too!
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    awww Puff, I will miss that beautiful girl. I put a kite up solo for the first time!! gybed it pretty successfully once, and fully unsuccessfully the second time, with a pretty bad drop, too. doesn't matter because nothing broke and I kept it out of the drink. also did my longest solo sail: met the cruising racers up in Fowlhouse Bay in Rakino Saturday night. I am stiff and sore and covered in bruises... a good weekend!
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    I'm just grateful that far more experienced people than myself made the same mistake. thanks for the support! good to hear you're done messing around with the aliens
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    that's worse than I looked after scraping my hull! I had no idea how blue I was and proceeded to go to the shops. the guy at Burnsco asked if I was painting myself or my boat. my accomplishments? first single-handed race! which also happened to be my first single-handed sail, ever! I was part of the golden confused bunch who read the race docs wrong and sailed the wrong course. so, while it was a bummer to not accomplish my goal of also finishing my first solo race, I did pick the long course, and it was pretty cool to get out to Iliomama and back to Westhaven all by myself. really exci
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    thanks all for the feedback! I have a lot to think about... looking to do this project ASAP. will have a chat with some people and do some reading. I found this site, which I thought was really interesting, if anyone is into the chemistry aspect of this subject: https://www.corrosionpedia.com/galvanic-corrosion-of-metals-connected-to-carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymers/2/1556
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    yup, mast first, hatch second... hatch should be as easy as pulling it out and re-sealing it. key word: should.
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    awww bugger I thought GRP was Glass-Reinforced Ply... it made sense in my head. I would very much like my mast to not escape out the bottom
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    Hi All! Inexperienced new owner here. I've got a keel-stepped mast on a GRP boat (Stratus 747). My forward hatch and the mast both leak a little (they're on the to-fix list), and the water coming in has softened the keelson enough that it is compressing/cracking around the base of the mast (right-top side of it in the pic is the worst of it). More experienced friends have had a look and so far no one is panicking, but we all agree it's a problem that needs fixing. An idea I'm liking a lot is adding a steel plate along the keelson to reinforce the wood and spread the load, but this woul
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    awesome, David, thank you she looks great!!
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    this makes me so happy!!!!!!!! awesome.
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    That book looks awesome Zozza. It's on my list too now When I was buying my boat I had look into a Jouet 24 for sale up in Weiti. She needed some love on the exterior (hadn't been touched in a few years, so she'd grown a reef, running rigging was dead and standing rigging was questionable), but the interior was apparently pristine (I didn't end up having a look). she'd been sailed here from Denamrk in the late 80's. over the course of researching her I discovered more of the story, unfortunately mostly not in English: http://www.ontdekkingsschrijver.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WimvanDij
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    aw shucks! not until Sunday haha
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    I'm in! likely not racing Saturday, got a few more things to do on the boat and want to take things slowly, but the plan is to mosey up to GH Saturday then race Sunday. might join the Saturday race if I'm ready on time but I'm not holding my breath
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    hey David, thanks for sorting out my membership on here! I bought a Warwick Stratus 747 back in June. used to be named Chinook III; I've renamed her Mercury Rising. she hadn't really been touched in 18 months and was well on her way to becoming a reef, with jumbled/missing electrics, a 15hp outboard that had been left in the "down" position, and no wardrobe save for a spinnaker in great condition. I've scraped all the barnacles (and all the paint!) off the bottom and re-antifouled, ran new wiring, dropped the boom 600mm, begged/borrowed/bought some sails, got the rigging replaced, and Dami
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    fitted a new main and purchased everything I needed to get up to cat 3 on Saturday. expensive day! but just about ready for this Saturday's 2-handed. my first race on my boat made up for the wallet hit by going sailing on Sunday, and even earned some karma getting swamped by waist-deep water on the low side while retrieving our spinnaker pole... combination of that sea state and the reef in our main somehow shook the beak open and it started sliding off the boom. was dragging in the water before I managed to haul it back in with the help of a crewmate. gooooood times
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