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    Covid 19 and liveaboards

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    37 minutes ago, Island Time said:

    They normally have 14 flights a week for supplies.  Now they have two. They are not provisioned for anyone but locals...

    I’ll call you or your source out on this.  For this to be accurate, there would need to a significant number of visitors”normally” on the island at any one time - let’s say for the sake of argument, conservatively - five times the permanent population.  Either that or the local population are all fasting daily for Lent and have decided to extend it for the month!

    Basic boat building question

    in TechTalk

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    Probably somewhat over engineered. However, as testing consisted of me and my 100(and some)kgs jumping up and down on it I'm now happy it will be ok with a few litres of waste in it.

     

    There is still another piece to go on to stop any movement of the the tank backwards but had to plumb the pipes in before I can bolt that on.

     

    Now just need to put the boat back together again.

    That's some heavy sh*t!

    Sealink Ferry Map / Warning System

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    Setting aside the idiocy of locating the ramp in that particular location for the moment, the alignment makes sense. It uses a minimum of shoreline. To align the ramp so that vessels are parallel to the shore would remove usable access for the other commercial operators.

     

    Now, locating an operator that requires the entire entrance to one of the largest recreational marinas in the world to manoeuvre vessels is indicative of poor governance

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    Crew.org Marine only Forums

    in MarineTalk

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    Nice inititive but I can't help but notice the cultural irony in this.

    "I don't like what's in SmallTalk but I don't have the disiplne to stop myself having a peak once in a while - and then the micro agression hits me and I get all angry again at SmalTalk being on a sailing website!"

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    Common Sense Prevails - Liferafts Dropped

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    Don't get the cart before the horse guys.

    This thread is about acknowledging a very big step to increase participation - not having to carry a liferaft.

     

    Logically, that is likely to encourage more boats to enter, and most likely a higher proportion of those new entries will be smaller boats. Don't go running to the next issue before celebrating and fully resolving the first issue.

     

    Lets get massive fleets first of Piedy's and Elliott 7's (or whatever the popular small boats are now). If large proportions of those boats fail to finish, then cross that bridge when you come to it. Right now, there aren't large numbers of those boats. 

     

    If that problem is created - then the NZMYC should be very proud of the achievement, in that doing so (by creating a problem of large numbers of small boats not finishing), they have substantially increased participation.

     

     

    On the small boat speed issue - I'd argue that there aren't a lot of 'solid / heavy' small boats, such as the Contessa 32 (UK boat famous for its Fastnet performance), or Reactors. Most small boats are lighter, i.e. a Piedy or some sort of sports boat variant, where the crew delight in sending it downwind. Generally, if it was on the wind, the crew would get so bored and frustrated they'd be in Kawau or Tuts drinking rum, rather than bash into 120 nm of windward work. This statement is born out by the number of withdrawls in the classic North Easter pattern that afflicts the Coastal Classic generally 1 yr in 5.

     

    Thanks Fish.  We've had bow stickers on our radar for a while but its tricky because they look fantastic.

     

    I can tell you now that if we did have a large fleet of small boats, and they did consistently struggle to finish inside the 30hr cut off time then we would be in a position look at how we could solve that. We had the cuttoff at 1500 in 2017 but struggled a little that year as well. 

     

    Hell if we had 20 extra from that very small boat fleet show up this year, for a bottle of rum we might even be tempted to push out an ammendment this year!

    Common Sense Prevails - Liferafts Dropped

    in MarineTalk

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    yeh - youy can't win no matter what you do.  Just went back through our NoR's and SI's for the last few years post the bank's sponsorship.

    2012:  if you didn't finish prior to 1200hrs you were scored DNF (IIRC I posted some later times that year)

    2013: if you didn't finish prior to 1400hrs you were scored DNF 

    2014: If you didn't finish prior to 1400hrs you were entitled to radio in your position and be awarded a finish place etc etc etc per this year's NoR.

    We have people who then have to bust their arse in a short space of time to finalise results prior to prizegiving at 1900hrs 

    We've now been able to work with YNZ to justify the removal of one of the single most costly items required under the safety regulations.  

     

    The weather pattern that the Dr. Watson describes is pretty unusual.  The wind is not going to "dead maggot" you round the course and at worst something like a minimum of 15% of the course will be at reach or better (rather than tight reach or dead maggot). It is a yacht race in October when the SW trades typical of the shoulder seasons are, well, typical.  We could allow the smaller boats 40hrs (or any other number you want Dr. W) but that would mean starting them at midnight the night before. 

     

    Yes occaisonally some yachts might struggle to make the 30hr cut off but to not race because of that risk would be like saying don't watch a football match - the team you support might loose!

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