DrWatson

This is really cool and a good thing. I've often felt that sailing could help kids and teens who are otherwise at a loose end to avoid the pitfalls of life. Christina just said that instead of becoming street kids and thieves they'll now become pirates

hmmm Just had a look at the registration documents. Originally we were going to register in section A, but it now costs 2400!! or so. Also in Part B, so long as my wife is eligible to NZ residency (a given) then she, as a sole owner, can register the boat as a NZ vessel (not possible in Part A - she can only own 31 of 64 shares). Then sail away from Europe for a year or more and land in NZ, She's moving there for the first time.... et voila! Of course it doesn't have to be registered as a NZ vessel but it will be easier when leaving Europe, and also easier when sailing around Europe i

That also applies to boats but generally only those that will fit on a trailer. Anything bigger you have to be coming to NZ to live for the first time before you can get a no-GST exemption on it. http://www.customs.govt.nz/news/resources/factsheets/Documents/Fact%20Sheet%2029.pdf Good spot, it's there in the fine print. guess my non kiwi wife will be owning the boat then! Hmmmmm, Along those lines. I guess our boat will be 100% owned by my non-kiwi wife also. But... for the boat to be NZ registered it needs to be majority owned by a Kiwi Citizen (or resident?). Can She then get

I'm still wondering how we'l go about bringing our boat in and how the GST and duty will be calculated. As we're building it ourselves, there is not really a "purchase" price. Sure there will be receipts to prove what we spent. But the base boat cost will be quite low. Kitting it out for the sail home will cost, of course, but can these things be considered as items which will be worthless when we get home? ie deprecated? I don't imagine the sail wardrobe will be looking too flash by the time we hit NZ and I'm guessing that half the other things will be worn out and worthless (various ele

looking good What's your projected sail/area displacement?

So how far can you go and still be within class rules? I'd love to come try that free rum n coke... but... my backs a little iffy and I have this interhemispheric issue

Sailed in a yacht race... www.fetedescanots.ch

Defence on Friday 13 September...party on the 14th if anyone is around. She already hand sanded the little one twice over, I think I'd be pushing my luck! Still, it'll be a little ways off before we break out the long board... maybe she'll have forgotten by then?

Well, this weekend was...good... nah... great... nah, AWESOME! Christina handed in her PhD thesis. So we went sailing together for the first time this summer (it's only my third time this summer also) Managed 7.1kts in about 6 knts of breeze averaging 0 knts. And even got a sunburn of freedom

Gee, I'm actually kinda glad you posted what appears to be advertising in the forum because i just re-read this interesting thread

When is it better just to turn this puppy over and re-skin the whole thing?

weekend achievements (and monday through to Wed morning) Emergency boat surgery (cabin rot) and windows finally sealed on the Palace along with a few other keep-out-the-rain maintenance issues. Work boat finish... dry berths at last I hope...

Standing headroom also! Very nice

I have to say, and sorry to other multi owners, but TW is my favourite multi of all time. Looks good Goes fast Home made (mostly) I'd want one for fun commuting if I lived on a gulf Island.

Like I say, I did think about the bevelled edge/scarf patch, but the ply is only 4mm thick, and will receive some severe point loading so I wanted it as strong and simple as practical. Also without the doublers a beveled patch is likely to move out of position during cure. Yes I could screw it then fill the screw holes etc. but I'm happy with it like this. If it was 6mm ply I would have bevelled it in like you suggest, but 4 mm gives less room for fairing afterwards. Got to make the patch flush and good all round to get easy finishing. Weather is meh today and I'm a bit under the weather a

except you..... how horribly horribly true

While my Christina was with me, I think I'd like to take the credit. To note, we had the fastest ride to date only a few minutes before breaking it, gusting 20 knots we were FLYING along on a quartering reach. As we got closer to the narrow little fairway into our ramp (seen on this web cam) : http://www.scc.ch/cam/image.jpg the fairway is between the boats and the roof in the foreground, what followed was a comedy of willy-waws leaving us capsizing over someone's mooring buoy and bowsprit. Righting the boat I launched myself out of the water to make sense of the knitting and sieze back c

Saturday's achievement That hole lets in and awfully large amount of lake...

looking good. I'll have to get a hurry along with my new project so I can start to post photos instead of just enviously looking at your progress.

Printing was done at the factory. The panels are computer cut, and all have little locating marks printed on them at the same time for indexing the assembly. Using the same system they print the outline of the design at the same time and then some dude manually paints the ink (UV proof and apparently hard wearing) onto the sail after stitching. I just sent them a vector graphics format file of the pic and said " In the middle." It apparently doesn't take too long to fill in the outline. Group called iSails. They're on the web. French company. The gaffer was great. But it fair p!ss

Our first competitive event. Chasing and collecting balloons around the lake dropped by the committee boat. We got killed , collecting just 2 of 50. The ladies in the old gaffer got 15... was a tough weekend... and cold. I want summer.

Cool. Glad to see it coming along. Probably been asked before, but what's the design? R

If you buy your second hand boat in, let's say, Europe, and then spend 10y drifting around from place to place, then finally wash up in NZ, your boat in floating but ratty condition. Do you pay GST and duty on the value of the boat from 10y ago? Or on the value it now has? Seems a rough deal if they make you pay duty and GST on something that is totally screwed. Proabably safer just to stay in NZ until your welcome is over, then shoot up to the islands for a stretch etc etc ad infinitum What about the poor folk who loose their boat off the coast on the way here. It washes up intact on t

Agree whole hartedly. A boat in the water is worth 2 on the land. My blokes' shed is a little hard to sit comfortably on and enjoy a beer.

You just need them to offer to pay the marina fees and haulouts and you're sorted One option is hard storage, while the market recovers. But only if you have free storage, near the sea, and cheap launching, close to AKL, with someone who will check regularly and keep everything clean. Stuff still gets old even without being used.