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The travel lift crew at HMB are great. They can probably help guide you in reverse.
Perhaps have a chat to the hardstand guys if you haven't already.
Wilco !
chrs.
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If you decide to remove furler mark your turnbuckle with a felt pen makes it easy to get back to where it was
Noted !
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Can you warp the boat into the travel lift? I had this exact discussion with my father in law last night.
Yes I wondered about that, its quite possible so I will talk to the HMB crew.
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Hi all, our Hood 38 has a baby stay with the outer forestay and both have furlers. We are hauling out at Half Moon bay in Oct and the previous owner used to reverse the boat into the travel lift to avoid having to remove the outer forestay. With no bow thruster and having a skeg rudder she is a pig in reverse.
Is it particularly difficult to disconnect it with a furler installed ? Obviously we will use the baby stay and probably some halyards to support the mast in the meantime.
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I recall one called Buckle Up at Pine Harbour many years ago, it was red , I think it was a Rocket 31, could be wrong.
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Would you not need to spline the joints before glassing ? that would help to reduce the amount of movement which as observed otherwise will defeat the purpose of glassing. I have also heard of people future proofing classic carvel boats by doing a double diagonal cold moulded skin over the planking.
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I hope the winch is powerful enough for the Steel Blls of the Swimmer.
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There are wooden boats, and there are wooden boats.
Much the same as there are European production boats, and there are European production boats.
For wooden boats, the appropriateness comes from the construction method, not the fact that it is wood. Triple diagonal kauri with a glass skin - top shelf, I'd have no problem with that. But then we own a double diagonal kauri with glass skin
Also considering the strength of the build as well (scantlings?). i.e. designed for trans-ocean, and not sheltered waters sailing, to resist flexing, twisting and cyclic loading.
Carvel planked - no chance. Anything with a single layer of wood, sealed with caulking or what ever, the risk is too great. Spring one plank, and you're in Davy Jones locker before you know it. Not to mention all the issues with the topsides drying out whilst in port, and leaking and needing to take up again as soon as you start healing over and getting them wet...
What was the name of that big wooden American boat that disappeared mid Tasman one winter several years back? Sailed out of Whangarei, heading for Oz. Had 8 or 9 on-board I think. There was extensive searches and they couldn't find a trace. The parents of a younger lady who was on board had a hard time coming to terms with it, criticized MRCC a lot and paid for a lot of private searching. That boat was carvel planked, very old (maybe 100 years or something, I'm just going by memory here). Most likely sprung a plank and went down faster than they could activate an EPIRB.
This boat will be carvel planked when finished, would you go offshore in it ? look at those scantlings they are absolutely massive !!
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What do you think would have caused this battery meltdown on the weekend
Great if somewhat disturbing photo, looks like the reactor core went critical
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I wonder how they resist the tendency to round up with such close angles and beamy hulls/sterns.
The wider the hull the greater the lateral separation between the drive of the sail and the hull drag, at its worse when you are on the wind , less so when reaching.This force couple tends to make the boat want to round up more, I suppose you could argue that the heel angle moves the centre of drive to leeward compensating for this. Either way there must be some interesting design challenges for the naval architects but its all solved on puters I suppose. This wee trailer sailer used lee boards which would have been interesting for balance.
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The post was not a personal attack it was a descriptive verbatim response to my partner being on the receiving end of a completely bizarre extraordinary response from a marina employee.
The other employee that was party to the exchange walked off in a embarrassed haze.
Moving on.
Now free of grand children and cat with extortionate marina fees settled the good ship Priscilla journeys to the Gulf of Dreams and the hardy crew swim with dolphins in Woody Bay dine with Neptune and moor in West Bay with a stink pot Monet that runs their f**king motor to power ,jug , microwave , electric blanket and marital aids constantly.
However the crowning gleeful glory was Pikelet has had a birthday.
32018807-E207-4FD8-8382-7BC35220CF4F.jpeg F2B340E7-9492-4421-8EE7-D692C22B3EEF.jpegGood looking boat that !
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I popped in this morning early, looking for good deals. It was packed. Looked, realised prices were not actually clearance prices, but barely even ‘on special’ prices. Left quickly.
Pretty much a universal experience for me with any "Closing Down" or "Liquidation" Sale,
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What objects/surfaces you proposing to paint ? and what sort of paints, e.g two pack systems ? My experience with early wagner airless DIY units and two pack paints was not good. So unless modern designs have improved dramatically I would go compressor driven. I have a small gravity fed $50 touch up gun and a $200 direct drive compressor I use it a lot for small jobs where I want a good finish. Mostly these are objects I can take off the boat and paint at home. Belt driven units are better but more expensive and still wont deliver the flow for painting a hull, or at least that is what my boat painter friend says. So if you have that in mind then your Scottish side wont like it as you will need a 3 phase or petrol driven compressor.
You need to thin the paint more for small compressors, its a bit trial and error to get it right. When I spray using water based paints I thin with Bars Bugs Window wash concentrate (trust me it works
As with all painting a good result is prep and technique dependent I would practice with small jobs and cheap paint, Good luck !
Edit: Re airless units, my comments do not include professional/ industrial airless rigs used to paint houses etc, but then they cost thousands I imagine.
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Imagine if they ever allow foiling ! probably too dangerous.
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This is pretty special I reckon and does anyone remember Travelodge ?
https://www.sail-world.com/news/203409/Auckland-Sailing-Club-has-historic-18ft-moment
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1974-travelodge-nz-.jpg
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Had it explained in detail how QMS forces commercial to dump.
If I had quota for 6 tonne of snapper nearing the end of the season,all thats left of my quota(snapper) is 600kn and I catch 800kg
I have 2 choices ,one is ring around and find out who has quota left so it can be landed under their quota,2 ,stock caught so must be ,I get paid the going rate for the 600kg,the other 200kg I pay a deemed value to mpi/fisheries and it could be as much as $30kg
So what am I going too do?? dump it of course,must of got the net caught on something,ring mpi/fisheries straight away and I am covered.(bit of a bugger tearing a good net and repairing but might cheaper than the deemed value).
Stock that I do not have quota for must not be landed,another waste,if landed I face a penalty for landing non quota species unless I find someone who has quota for that stock.
"So what am I going to do".......? well how about good old fashioned Compliance With the Rules, even if you consider the system imperfect. What gives anyone in this particular industry the right to rort the system because they personally disagree with it ? Lets apply that to Aviation, Medicine, Taxation, Policing, etc and see how we advance as a society, Somalia anyone ?
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At this stage, it would either kept at Pine Harbour or Shelly Park and both have issues with access at low tide. Shallow draft isn't critical but it would certainly add flexibility to when I could go in and out.
I knew there were some twin keel versions made of the Lotus 9.2 and I had heard there was also a centreboard version but have never come across either for sale. I have also seen a shoal draft fin keel version but from what I understand most have the normal fin keel.
The Whiting 29 has two versions, a shallow draft masthead rig cruising version and a deeper draft version with a fractional rig although I have come across hybrid versions.
From what I have found out so far the Young 88 has a fin keel version and it looks like some have modified fins so the draft varies and there's also a swing keel version.
They all seem to have reasonable headroom from what I can gather.
Another feature I would like is an open or walk through transom, possibly with a sugar scoop but it's not an absolute must have.
I have seen a couple of Lotus 9.2's modified like this but it would be a bit of an undertaking to do. Some of the Whiting 29's were fitted with a sugar scoop option and a couple have been modified to walk through. Still a little bit of work but not nearly as much as the Lotus 9.2. The Young 88 already has an open transom and as I enjoy sailing I am attracted to its sailing performance.
So, for an all-weather yacht single-handed cruising around NZ for extended periods with the possibility of having one or two inexperienced crew aboard sometimes which of these would be your preference and why?
I have a Carpenter 29 at Shelly Park, Draft is 1.6 metres access is 2 hours either side of low tide, no change in 28 years.
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Those you've mentioned are all good boats. Also worth thinking about a farr 9.2 or a y88. All have been for sale in the price range you mention - probably a case of looking at and maybe trying to organise a sail on a few and see what you think. Personally I'd look for the tidyiest one that's had the most love you can find as it's easy to buy a "project" and blow the budget!
What he said, find the one that's had the most TLC through its life, they are not as common as you might think though.
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And here is the riposte from Seafood New Zealand, ripping into Legasea, apparently they are all Eco Warrior Angels. We have nothing to hide but don't put those cameras on the boats eh !
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You cant beat The Barrier, It really does cater for all.
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Keep an eye on launch and ferry wakes at Orapiu, I have seen two vessels heaved against the piles, the damage was nasty.
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I don't have a real high performance boat its an early 80's IOR special from South Africa. I have an old furling 140% Genoa that I plan to replace with a 100 - 120% depending on who is giving me the advice and either a Symmetric or an Asymmetric. Currently, I sail wing on wing downwind or just take an as best angle as I can. I could still somewhat pole out an Asymmetric for downwind?
You mentioned cruising until you run out of money well you could get a head start by buying both a spinnaker and an A2, they are quite expensive sails plus you then have to store both. I would go for some sort of asymmetric and ditch the whisker pole, with that and the genoa you have plenty of options.
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Does third party insurance cover abandonment?
I cant see how it could , is there even such a thing ?
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There's one Stewart thats so gone in Mangonui that if it was a horse you'd have to shoot it. Has grass happily growing on it but it also has a letter from NRC taped to the wash boards. Couldn't read it from the dinghy but a good guess it will be one of those 21 day remove it or.... The skin fittings when they pop, will cost the owner a LOT more than towing it one way behind Grt Barrier (Nice idea by the way).
Common guys, towing it behind the the Barrier and sinking it ? do the right thing and scrap it properly ,otherwise we are no better than all the other environmental cowboys. This is the 21st century not the 19th a fiberglass boat wont rot or rust away.
2 blade folding prop had its day
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That is a Bri Ski Prop and I thought they went out of business years ago ? I found the geared unit was better in reverse, its a Briski on my saildrive and it has given good service.