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Posts posted by DrWatson
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On 5/08/2022 at 6:00 AM, Black Panther said:
Papeete only has one high tide per day at noon.
Cool -it’s really that far from everywhere else
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There’s a huge difference in boat volume between a 26ft boat and a 32ft boat. Those are 6 very large feet.
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I have a stern anchor, 14kg FOB, not ready to deploy, but still shackled to 25m chain and 40 warp. Also have a fortress in the lazarette. Have been meaning to get a stern line for use in the med etc. but been struggling for ways and space to keep it. I mean I have too much excess weight already - especially as Firefly’s a v light boat.
reading this I think I’ll unshackle the FOB and use the chain and warp as my stern line - at the very least it’ll make the tackle easier to retrieve from the lazzarette if it’s in pieces.
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On 12/05/2022 at 11:39 PM, Ex Machina said:
Well , with a swing keel your pogo would realistically sit on a launching trailer ….on your front lawn in KK , big 4WD or a tractor would launch it
This is a concept that has not escaped me …
I do have a mooring, too.
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Trailer yachts cost a fair amount less over their lifetime , I’m convinced
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We have coded our jackets with different coloured cordage. Each crew member is shown how to fit and use the jacket, I check fitting, and each crew remembers their colour. It’s theirs for the trip. Hydrostatic triggers. double crotch straps.
plastimo. 150N. Comfortable. No idea what they’re like inflated. The water here is bloody cold at the best of times so I’m not rushing to get in and test - I should change that, though.
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Shall I give the real list or the list for this weekend - being the first long weekend away ever with my wife on her boat, sans kids.
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On 7/03/2022 at 7:59 PM, Jon said:
You generally find two types of boat owners.
‘The first and where you should aim for is the type that use their boats all the time whilst fixing small stuff, and the type that never or very rarely use their boats as they are constantly working on them.
Most here fit somewhere between the two
My boat was brand new in 2019 - it still has a list…nothing major, but a list nonetheless.
Things like:Install Radar, danbuoy, additional electricity generation, crew set of ais beacons, couple small gelcoat chips, stich on some halyard covers, storms’l, plugs for the electric motor charging, wiring in the espresso machine, building a toolbox/roll, relocating the water maker, replacing that usb charge point that drowned when the water maker shat itself, replacing the zip sliders on two squab covers because I’m an idiot and didn’t learn the first time…
hate to think how the list looks on a boat more than 3y old…
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On 26/02/2022 at 3:23 AM, ex Elly said:
Wow you have a good memory! Trackerjack was destroyed that day - no insurance. 😪
It was quite an exceptional month- I think there were 2 severe storms, one much akin to the other, within a week. Something like category 2 level on the Saffir Simpson scale? Seem to remember numbers like 90kts being bandied about. I sat at Birkenhead for an hour or so watching my little keeler pitch violently. Decided there was nothing I could do. Went home.
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Make sure you don’t leave a fender over the exhaust…I’m aware through the grapevine that this has happened in the past.
The yards don’t like having to take a nearly brand new boat back to rebuild the aft quarter! It messes with their production schedules
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On 17/02/2022 at 9:57 AM, syohana said:
Ouch! Crumbs was my old boat. She has a good strong hull, did they get her off OK?
Meanwhile in a relatively sheltered bit of Kerikeri river opposite us a very big heavy timber launch on a pile mooring first broke both her bow lines before the storm even got started (they were more properly described as rotten strings) and was swinging around one pile bumping it so I went over in a small boat and put a bow line on her and attached an extra stern line from the other pile. Next morning after the storm that new bow line was holding fine but the pile at the other end had broken off completely and again she was held by one line! Before the tide turned and swung her into the neighbouring boat I managed to get another long line on to the next pile down the row. Considering she had been swinging around bumping that rotten pile the night before, attached to nothing else, it's a miracle I caught her before she broke loose completely and crashed into other boats.
Good effort!
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11 hours ago, Black Panther said:
I think her preference would be Europe, she's fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, not bad at Dutch and I think she's working on another.
She can sail, yeah? …. I need crew for a week in June…
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The outcome was? Any options in Europe? The continent is a different thing to the UK.
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40 minutes ago, John B said:
They plan to pave the Kerikeri inlet, wait , you knew that....
Ahhh to keep the tide on time That’s a Swiss approach to keep rivers running on time …
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So it looks like I’ll be home for the whole of July…
Been some years. Am I gonna have to brace myself?
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13 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Run!!!!!!
"You fools!"
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Keeping the German registration is ok, so long as the new owner qualifies to have a German registered ship (possibly you don't - can't remember German requirements), but legally the skipper needs the qualification of the flag state - if you're sailing out of NZ. Many places won't ask you see your qualification, but some will.
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Cut up a pair of your old redbands and screw them to the bulkhead?
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Came 4th in a race. Hard to beat a Pogo44 and two 12.50s in a drag race. Did beat the next Pogo36 by a whole horizon, though.