Frank

Well the Pacific Adventure certainly did not get checked https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/301015149/passengers-furious-after-cruise-rejected-at-new-zealand-border Apparently the cruise was a Turd covered in Gold Glitter according to one punter

P.S As I understand it a gas certificate is only required if you have reticulated supply so a small Barbecue with a screw in canister would not qualify. Only AC Shore Power wiring would require an electrical WOF but bear in mind you can kill yourself with AC at 220V regardless of the source so a WOF might be a good idea regardless. (My old Engineering tutor said that in the right conditions anything over 50V could be lethal)

There nothing new in this requirement, its typical in my experience, I faced this in Feb 2023 and it was a report of overall condition ie sound and seaworthy rather than what they do for a pre purchase survey. The rigging was not included but we had to show evidence that it was less than ten years old as per the policy. In regard to an electrical WOF (Shore Power AC only) and a gas certificate, you should have these if applicable and its best to get the agent to place them on your file.

I have sailed on a cat that is probably somewhere between say a Lagoon and a Gunboat in performance terms. During a coastal classic race the VMG was the same as an adjacent Cav 32 while going to windward ie 6 knots, the CB's made only a marginal difference.

Some cats (Brand/model redacted) need a motor when the wind is forward of the beam :-), even skilled sailors may still motorsail if it means making good time to dodge a deteriorating weather window not so much of an issue perhaps on vessels that can average 180 - 200 miles per day

You can get away with being underpowered if you plan around it but I would definitely want 40hp in a boat of that size. As commented o elsewhere a saildrive should make more effective use of available HP and likewise a 3 Bladed Fixed pitch prop. The latter will create more drag when sailing but in a decent breeze its not a major and in the lighter airs offshore you are likely to be motor sailing to maintain planned daily mileage and stay inside a weather window. Another factor to consider is windage, drag increases by the square of wind speed and when the vessel is fully configured for offsh

I'm curious as to why you cant cut and polish LPU's, I saw a DIY re-spray recently with a flawless finish, achieved by cutting and polishing. The owner said It was an automotive 2 part (2K ?) lacquer but not a marine product as such. Do we have any paint experts who can comment on the difference ? If you cant cut n polish a marine LPU then presumably the chemistry is different to automotive 2K PU.

Looks Good Matt !

Have to go to the TMO on that one

Looks to have potential for boat use , curious as to the grit no on that disc.

Netflix and spotify , TV ? bah humbug

"take the info with a grain of salt" (Critical Thinking ?) and "not always accurate" likely should be applied to any information on the info-bahn. The first instance of duff or slightly duff gen probably goes back to caveman rock drawings or we wouldn't have unicorns which incidentally may have existed at the end of the last ice age , either that or it may be duff https://www.google.com/search?q="Elasmotherium+sibiricum&oq="Elasmotherium+sibiricum&aqs=chrome..69i57.1841j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I still use it and donate regularly, its not perfect but still preferable to sites with inane and irritating adds which are mostly irrelevant to me. I can see the day when I will pay for add free you tube.

I use Plytech https://www.google.com/search?q=plytech+highbrook&oq=plytech+highbrook&aqs=chrome..69i57.9650j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Not the cheapest but the quality is high and I have seen some very average product masquerading as BS1088. I'm building a dinghy in the new year and I will use Joubert Gaboon.

Ours works great, it was in the boat when we purchased it, no complaints, the vessel also has a PSS shaft seal which has never leaked in 6 years including a recent 5 month trip to the islands. It is a bit freaky compared to the admiralty gland because you only have to pull the bellows back with relatively light hand pressure and water pours in, I took a bicycle inner tube along as an emergency seal but need not have worried. I have tried the lip seal type and I could never get the bloody thing it to work no matter how much grease I pumped in even and with sea water cooling it was useless, It

I had a read, do we have any members who are experienced or legally qualified on the mechanics and legalities of charitable trusts ?

I wonder if the trust deed a document Auckland ratepayers can access ? might be interesting to see the content

Back in the day when my local club also serviced the members moorings we tried bolting blocks of zinc to the upper chain which was black steel with only the light buoy chain being galvanised the observed results on my mooring were 1. The zinc block did not seem to dissolve much. 2. It did not increase the life of the chain. 3. The prop shaft anode dissolved in 3 months instead of lasting a year. 4. The propellor surface became pitted. Another vessel suffered corrosion and pitting on the surface of the steel bilge keels and other members reported their protective anodes

Those figures are amazing ! do you ever get any case rattle or movement of the retractable keel ? and what are the polars when fully powered up, hard on the wind in a decent sea ?

In dealing with insurance companies I have found they tarred all swing moorings with the same brush in that they saw less risk with Pile Moorings and better still a marina. Only once in 30 years do I recall a broker commenting that the area my boat is moored in was considered to be relatively protected. A few years back there was a blow where several vessels in the Tamaki river came adrift with one sinking. I noticed my premium went up at the next renewal and I wonder if we might see this again soon.

Good feedback, no surprise I suppose that high volume sterns score heavily in conditions that promote planing and perhaps you compensate with fuller fwd sections. I suppose to that modern forecasting and route planning tools have improved the odds of predicting benign weather where a lighter displacement is going to be an advantage most of the time.

You can see the growth rings, no dry years by the looks of it

Wow ! surprised that there are still swing moorings on a North shore beach, looking at Google they seem to be the only ones, yes they will all be write-offs for sure unfortunately.

Wilco 👍

On a recent offshore cruise I noticed some production monohulls seem to have taken stern volumes to extreme levels with transom widths that would do justice to an aircraft carrier, I presume these are influenced by racing classes such as the IMOCA 60 ? Does anyone have experience on how these perform at sea when tight reaching or going to windward ? I would have thought that as swell/wave passes under the stern the forward hull sections would struggle to counter the enormous buoyancy aft producing a very harsh motion.... curious !