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    On the hunt for an iridium go

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    I have been following the Solo Global race, and this week had a youtube with the young american girl  Cole....gave an 20 min interview via 'starlink' very impressive..

    'she commented people were having dramas were using the old version and hers was recent version  she was able to do repairs on a hydro generator malfunction with team

    in the states with a series of images sent to her.   i know its Eon mr master race,..... but I know farmers who swear by it for all sorts of things...watch this space.

    help

    in MarineTalk

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    I saw sailing shots from Lyn,s photos when they were leaving to leave Warkworth after launching and a couple on the hard getting NZd rig....

    The Anniversary Regatta was just a small group to race; but on time between bigger boat divisions and the difference in start times she has done well...it will take time to tune up Im sure but looks the goods

    New Trans Tasman event

    in RaceTalk

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    This race thread is very strange...I came for a look still have know idea what its all about

    But way back there was the Sydney to Taranaki Two handed in the mid eighties ...that got hit by Cyclone Bola   and was a feeder for the Singlehanded Taranaki to Mooloolahba...

    Then later there was the Sydney to Auckland....

    NZd is a great travel destination for any sailors but maybe Im barking up the wrong tree   that know one can articulate any emotive story about Doing the Ditch and the Cruising Grounds that await.     I was a subscription holder of NZ Boating from the eightys till now...there were so many articles of amazement in every issue  of history   building sailing motoring fishing travelling and people and places and the food and wine...I still have favourite past reads that I go to and to show friends or console the self before sleep....Even the organisers are lost getting an enthusiastic description of Pittwater and Sydney   from the Hawkesbury [and the best Oysters] and any cruising grounds to the north of Syd like Port Stephens and the inland Wineries of the Hunter Valley   

     years ago I would for a morning feed to a place that did simple herbed garlic spiced bread hot  you could smell it four blocks away....when they put in the exhaust fan the french cook owner got involved ...he called it his advertising appetiser... there was a connection direct from the huge bread oven to the stack that was 10ft higher than the surrounding buildings  he would sell 5 - 8 thousand french sticks on a weekend and that was an appetiser ,.. that restaurant and kitchen had 12 -17 people flat out doing meals on a weekend   reminds me travelling on a bike between Taranaki and Wellington  and half an hour before arriving in a town on a river I could smell whitebait cooking  and I knew what it was   by the time I got to town I was a salivating wreck but very happy to sit down and eat ... still a favourite meal

    Maybe I'll get my scissors and cut out my favourite articles from NZ Boating and send them to Race Organisers

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    Additives for diesel.

    in TechTalk

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    Love Fuel Doctor..working inland Australia , fuel station fuel can have water and crap plus the bug so always carried in whatever vehicle;  petrol or Diesel...just started an old  diesel toyota ute that had been sitting on a farm for a couple of years but had put fuel doctor in before sitting  Started third go after repriming...dropped the fuel to check for bug back at the workshop...put through a Mr Filter and then reused and not much in the filter...had major flooding event so all vehicles got put into action to move equipment and animals.

    Best way to dry out wet cabinetry?

    in MarineTalk

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    Hello there motor b,  Is there any venting in forward end of the boat...are you / they on a mooring or  fixed mooring / pontoon.

    I ask as to attain were the predominate breeze to boat is coming from  , if on a mooring the wind is essentially coming from the bow as the boat weather cocks into position....harder to plan in pontoon pens . If on swing mooring maybe start looking at a Dorade vent up front  and another down aft to have a cyclic system to move air that also limits water into the boat ; ie wave whilst underway and rain at rest. They are a Passive Smart device but need special consideration to where and how to fit. Small plastic versions from chandler to handmade timber pvc metal versions     but.. Speak to a shipwright / boatbuilder Its not something to get wrong.

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    help

    in MarineTalk

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    What a series of interesting boats that were self built by the designer / sailor.... is Tack Hammer still racing...? Saw the 2016 reference...

    Very special  like Truxton

       so many interesting self build's came out from many Kiwi Sailors    in recent times Roper 9000 ...and the BeauCant er and Splash, [Beau770 co designed with Kevin D] in more recent times....

    will the recession see a return to a new era of Kiwi Ingenuity..,  in a time of a need to go sailing...!!

    Solo TransTasman Yacht Challenge 2023

    in ShortTalk

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    David Adams??Kirribilli Kel Steinman 40  didn't make official start of the Sydney to Taranaki  as a precursor to the Taranaki to Mooloolabah... 

     

    But used these races as a training ground for starting his Around the World Races on an alloy Kel Steinman design 60 footer converted fully crewed racer ...then later, a custom built Jon Sayer design 50' True Blue and winning his class

     

     
    and others including Ian and Cathy Johnston and Kay Cottee , Ian Mounsey,  Billy Gleeson, Old Alby Bergin  sailed in the short handed Inaugural Sydney to Taranaki race

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    Solo TransTasman Yacht Challenge 2023

    in ShortTalk

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    http://www.mooloolabayachtclub.com.au/news/trans-tasman-survival-man-and-boat/

    From the archives – Trans-Tasman survival…man and boat

    John Bates recalled a very big year

    The Trans-Taman Solo Race has been the source of many tales.  The achievements of MYC members such as Bill Gleeson, Jon Sayer, Peter Mounsey and, in more recent times, Laurie Gubb and Ian Griffith, could make a great chronicle.

    However, the year which must stand out in the history of MYC as being unforgettable was 1978 – the Bill Belcher Year.

    During the long period from race start in New Plymouth, New Zealand, until all competitors actually stepped ashore in Australia, the MYC race committee, led by Commodore, Harry Marshall, aged ten years.

    Harry was meeting the media head-on with his quietly spoken way, trying to show logic to those who would push panic buttons and go looking for Bill Belcher just because he hadn’t finished in the first three places.

    Communications had not been perfect that year by any means.  Many competitors had not kept their radio skeds with either NPYC or MYC, so it wasn’t until the first three yachts finished that is was beginning to look like the middle of the fleet had run into pretty dirty weather.

    Bill Belcher wrote a book about his ploughing into Middleton Reef, waiting for rescue in his yacht Josephine II, sitting high on the reef and finally taking to his life raft ten days later in the hope of drifting to Australian shores.

    In the same race, one yacht was pitchpoled 360 degrees, losing her rig, and another rolled dismasted and abandoned in the Tasman Sea.

    The little quarter-tonner Witchetty limped into Mooloolaba with a tiny jury rig and a single-handed sailor who vowed never to sail the Tasman again (he did – twice), Witchetty was befriended by a new MYC member, Alex Higgins, starting a long and meaningful relationship between man and boat.

    What of the abandoned boat – a 38ft sloop sailed by one-legged stalwart John Jury.  John was taken from his drifting hull by a freighter and the boat abandoned, much to John’s dismay.

    It was my habit to escape to Fraser Island when peace and quiet was needed.  All solo competitors had been accounted for except Bill Belcher who was still adrift in his life raft.

    Four days camping the beach up by Indian Head seemed a great escape from the pressure.  So, with three friends it was into the four-wheel-drive and off.

    Glen Arundell was with his favourite lady (now wife of many years) and I too was with my then favourite.  After setting up camp, we lay back to enjoy the sunset and cold drinks.  Not a soul could be seen looking south or north along the beach. (Those were the days!)

    Suddenly a news helicopter came screaming past about 50 feet off the sand.  Glen’s curiosity was greater than mine, so he headed north along the beach.

    Not long after dark he returned with incredible news.  John Jury’s boat was washed up on the beach a few miles north.

    The next day we inspected the hull – together with other campers who had happened on it.  John Jury had been in Mooloolaba and was soon on board a fellow competitor’s yacht, heading north to claim his hull.

    Mid-afternoon next day the yacht hove-to about a mile off the beach and a dingy could be seen rowing for our position.  Being on the sand side of the shore break, we could see that a surf boat might have had a chance of getting through the breakers, but for a one-legged man in a dingy it was a bit risky.

    Glen – being the fit water polo player – started swimming.

    He met the upturned dingy and the mono-pedestrian, now aquarian, about 200m out.  We in turn met the rescue party about halfway back and all reached the beach in safety.

    Glen was awarded the BRM (Bundaberg Rum Medal) for bravery, plus, to his delight, boat chandlery from John Jury which would assist greatly his own boat-building project.

    A news helicopter reappeared and we were informed by the news crew that Bill Becher had been picked up off Gladstone, frail but well after 28 days in his raft and some 300 nautical miles from the reef.

    Yes, 1978 was a big year for MYC.

    In October the same year the MYC yacht Odyssey sailed north from Mooloolaba and returned from the south having kept Australia on the left and not stopping or using any power other than the wind.  It was the first non-stop circumnavigation of Australia – but that is another story.

     
     

    Globe 40s arriving in Auckland

    in MarineTalk

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       https://www.coastalclassic.co.nz/post/big-fleet-for-big-birthday-race?fbclid=IwAR3MvmrFYuHtul0bxcdjXS-IZkJG2PXSULPHcP72EDzP5cUuO3Yq007PxFU

          what a good place for a welcome...a lot of boats will maybe great the tail enders of the Globe.....

    Globe 40s arriving in Auckland

    in MarineTalk

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