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    Offshore Medical Course

    in MarineTalk

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    Hi Splat,

    You have made my day!! - great to hear it was so helpful and more importantly that your wife is OK again

     

    My goal is that the skills that we teach will help you not only at sea, but also at work, home or if you are first on scene at a car crash.

     

    Thank you for the great story and feedback

     

    Cheers

    Dr Dave

    Offshore Medical Course

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Hi SMU,

    No, Unlike some other courses, mine will cover both coastal and offshore medicine 

     

    I am helped by Bek Costello who is an ED nurse educator (and great sailor and person), to teach the course .

    We have a group led by Sally Garret - Jenny, Suellen and Angus all help organise and ensure the day runs smoothly

    We all donate our time willingly and any profit is donated to help disabled sailing 

     

    Cheers

    Dave

    Offshore Medical Course

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Hi Everyone,

    We have set the date for next years course for Saturday March 16th 2019

    Venue will probably be the new Akarana club rooms - however we will confirm this

    Booking will again be on line , I will post a link as soon as it is set up

    Regards

    Dr Dave

    Offshore Medical Course

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    Hi Everyone,

    We have set the date for next years course for Saturday March 16th 2019

    Venue will probably be the new Akarana club rooms - however we will confirm this

    Booking will again be on line , I will post a link as soon as it is set up

    Regards

    Dr Dave

    Farr 1104 or Stewart 34 offshore?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Hi Dr Dave,

    What did you make the prod out of, and did you use a bobstay? (assuming you ran gennakers off it?)

    We need to organise a descent bow roller for the anchor, and wouldn't mind a prod at the same time. Have been pondering one that looks the same as on Entropy.

     

    Apologise for the thread drift.

    Hi Fish,

    Yes I ran a Gennaker off it - it worked really well for a cruising boat. The design doesn't have a bob stay and was from Ray Beale, who was great to deal with. Sorry - I'm not sure what the timber was - however Ray will know

    Hope that helps

    Dave

    Farr 1104 or Stewart 34 offshore?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    I bought a Beale 37 ("Dreams") way back and did a major refit on her (including a prod and new rudder) and renamed her "Entropy". I owned her for 9 years and she was an excellent boat. Great load carrier for cruising and surprisingly quick, we cruised her up and down the Northland Coast and only sold as we moved to OZ.

    The new owner also spent lots on her including removing teak deck and replacing with glass/ply. He also won the coastal in her some years back

    I see she is for sale now on TradeMe.

    Certainly worth a look

    I have raced to the Islands in 1104's twice in the late 80's/90's and we owned a S34 as a kid. Both OK, but Ray Beale's boats are quicker, more sea kindly and better load carriers

    Cheers

    Dr Dave

    Chatham islands

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    We spent 6 weeks there in the 90's and loved it. I thoroughly recommend it

    We went on a diving/cruising trip 

    It has amazing diving/fishing/scenery and the locals are friendly and helpful. A 7kg (yes kg!) cray the biggest we caught from memory

    Obviously it is isolated and can be windy/rough so you need to be prepared and self sufficient. As Booboo said not many "any weather" anchorages so our plan was to sail to deep water in a severe storm - however we didn't have to

    My plan is to return again in a few years time as I cut back on work

    Go for it

    Dave

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