DrWatson

Damn, thing. Lost the text. That was the weekend's achievements. Welsford Rogue, but will end up somewhat modified.

Yup, as long as it's not rot from one end to the other, plywood can be bloody good and easily repaired in an emergency

OK, now i have the img posting working again, here's this weekend's achievement. 40 lm of 150x20 vertical grain WRC on it's way to my new workshop ... on the 7 1/2 floor ... hey at least it's a workshop and not a dining room...

very difficult to transfer fuel in rough weather, esp if the filler is outside...

Ah I see there are two versions. You wouldn't want two have two separate ones? With them combined you have to choice but to send AIS signal to your mates to pick you up AND a full on emergency... so you're picked up, let's say, in 15-25min, but by then the helo is on the way... Now you gotta call and cancel. But the other one is that you might not be picked up, and then if you wait the 20min and decide that your mates just suck, you've already lost 20min of response time... Coastally, that scenario could matter. But if you're in the ocean..? Put it this way, If I fell over at 9p

To be honest I actually thought it was Des who said "if it looks right, it is right." But at the end of the day, I'd take the boat with the best performance, although my requirements for performance are likely very different to other folks. Weatherliness, speed, ability to enter shoal water, not too much windage, masts on tabernacles, impossible to sink, DRY, self righting, comfortable bed, standing shower, decent dunny, great galley, plenty of cold space, clothes washer ... these are all features I would consider very high up on my list. I actually feel that the two features, g

One has to look twice to see the mooring pile and that you're not actually anchored over the cable...

Basically the same as the McMurdo I posted a month or so back. http://www.mcmurdomarine.com/regulatorydocuments/ais-mob-devices/281-mcmurdo-smartfind-s20 Given the cost of an AIS transceiver for your boat and that these doohickees are only a couple hundred a pop, you'd be mad not to have this if you're going to cross an ocean on a yacht with more than one person aboard.

hmmm, one is trivialising and comical, the other powerful. One seems disrespectful, and the other respecting. It does however, kinda look a little like Keith Richards....

Yeah, I saw that, too. I found the plans for the boat ramp and carpark from 10y ago. https://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwisyembr5jOAhVBbhQKHeMoDj4QFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fndc.govt.nz%2Fyour-council%2Fmeetings%2Frecord-of-meetings%2F2012-archived%2F2012-11-29-council-minutes-agenda%2F2012-11-29-Council-6.3-Windsor-Landing-Boat-Ramp-Access-Resource-Consent.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFxqJTSSXRRor-Q05WOZdOx6-6brQ&sig2=mRxVuzygFgrXMHDWrEOKVA&bvm=bv.128617741,d.d24 But I don't know if they are

So apparently, 10y after building the ramp and the floating pontoon, the council have decided to push ahead with actually getting land access to the ramp... http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx?issue=17582016072100000000001001&page=7&article=c5964330-0c03-4cf1-bae1-9180d3160aa1&key=laPRlOnugTenNdV+tVz9oQ==&feed=rss&google=1 I can't read the full article, does anyone have access or a transcript of this? It'll be the only boat ramp (public) on the southern side of the inlet, and it's 200 m from my place, so I'd like to know a little more.

I think they're offering that much for someone to remove it, no? it's one of those reverse auctions...

Comanche shaves over a day off the 13y old record set by Mari Chas new time:5D 14H 21M 25S av 21.44knts from Sailing anarchy

so this is a really old thread, but i just wondered what happened to the fledgling Hokianga sailing club, I'm digging around and I find this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11351259 Which is so bloody typical, But then this, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11388586 Which is again, awesome. These guys should hold an annual challenge with the kids from Kerikeri...

I think it is vitally important that we recognise tribalism and privatisation as the same thing, and that this is a societal cancer that leads to a divided society, and a class war. The failure to recognise the public estate as belonging to all New Zealand citizens and residents, and to transfer the ownership, governance or guardianship away from everyone and to a select few determined by race or wealth, is one of the greatest disasters about to befall NZ. A successful country and society must be united. A society divided by race, tribe, wealth, religion, or any other factor will lead

Indeed, So has anyone used one and to what level of accuracy can you determine an angle?

Just idly sitting around musing about things learnt and things forgotten, then I wondered if we might start a daily quiz? Now, I know that some of you will wonder why anyone WOULDN'T know what X or Y is or how to do A, B and C while smoking a pipe, splicing a shroud and fighting off a swarm of flying sharks, but the folk who frequent this forum are many and varied, and there is an equally varied amount of experience and knowledge. Bringing that knowledge into the open and sharing it around can only be good, no? I for one, know that I'm not the most learned or even close to it in term

oooo, what is it?

Couldn't agree more.

so... giving up sailing?

I have been a member but not at the moment. In general, I think they provide a very valuable service, and lots of volunteer time, and this is to be applauded. However, I have also noticed a trend towards authoritarian behaviour amongst some volunteers. The same behavioural traits can also be noticed when you give some volunteers a fluoro vest and ask them direct traffic at a fair, for example. Coupled with this can be a tendency to judge the actions of others in a condescending and or patronising manner. One must remember that, by and large, the skipper of the vessel in distress is sti

kinda makes me wanna have one of those pumps installed as a permanent item... or two ...

yeah, I read that, and i think it could just as likely be the media having no idea what a PanPan is and just calling it a mayday so that the readers will understand. If you wrote "Boat calls PanPan", half the readers would think that the crew were summoning a Disney character to help them fight an evil drug smuggling yank called Dr Hook...