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Could pretty easily drop the half dozen slowest boats from 2 to 3? As it is Stratocaster 3/southern fun 2, Frida 3/Dirty Harry 2 Pacific Sundance racetrack is way higher than the 40.7s but has somehow got a passage phrf low enough to get into div 3. Slipknot just over the phrf cut off and finished behind most of div 3. There's always the chance of this happening - the split has to be somewhere. But in the typical SW conditions the back few boats in div 2 don't really seem to fit with the rest of the division so might be an opportunity to even the numbers a bit across the div

Yes but it does look like potentially for next time it might be worth shifting the phrf cut off points for the divisions to try and even up the splits.

In the first Wednesday night rnzys race I heard the club protested a number of boats for getting too close to the wharves. Not being one of those boats I'm not sure of the outcome but the results posted on the club website haven't changed so it doesn't appear anyone was dsqd. Don't know why the sudden strict approach but it would seem that the days of hugging the wharves to get out of the tide are over.

Some here are probably already aware of this situation. I wasn't and it's quite astonishing. https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/116638559/why-is-auckland-council-so-eager-to-sell-prime-waterfront-real-estate-to-a-millionaire-developer Panukus approach is nicely summed up in their own words though... "Why was Panuku going to all this trouble for a mere $2m to $5m? In his June 2018 letter to the councillors, Rankin said its approach was to "extract value from the assets for ratepayers". Marinas were not delivering a core council service." Which you could roughly paraphrase as "boatie

True. My mistake. Those are some quite large windows in the cabin top.

Just a Bavaria 47. Oceans is a beneteau range. Interesting distinction between the two as I believe the beneteau oceans put in bigger windows sooner, meaning if what I read somewhere about them having owned this boat for ten plus years is true that it was probably the earlier style bav with lots of smallish porthole style windows. Which aren't of the size to require shuttering for cat1.

Terribly sad. Sometimes you see footage of rough weather and it doesn't seem that bad due to angle/camera etc. But this time, the footage from the chopper looks like the conditions were really really nasty! Fingers crossed the remaining person in hospital recovers too.

That's amoré will be there

No worries. I've seen one called top knot out racing, I can't remember where though. Possibly bucklands beach?

Ryc normally gets a good fleet in your sort of size range. Saw one of their winter series race starts and they had a division with lotus 9.2s, far 727s, trackers, a whiting quarter tonner and a Ross 830. A d28 should fit in quite happily in that sort of div. They also run a specific single handed series if you're keen on solo racing.

We're the first 40(.7) Carried the kite for the first half of the leg to Rocky bay but as the pressure built it was a bit shy for us to keep holding it and after a couple of wipeouts we ended up 2 sailing from there which cost us against the other boats in the division. Had similar issues to IT at times with breeze and not wanting to partially furl the headsail and lose our ability to point, so put a reef in at the haystack and still ended up overpressed at times, but had a fairly decent beat back from there all the same. Then a good few rums were had at the debreif. Another fu

Tried Steve Ashley/sailbrokers?

Apparently the ggr boats that got really fouled on their way around the world had coppercoat on them. We use ultra, with about a 1m square patch of vivid around the sail drive to keep the copper away from the sail drive. I find that the vivid fouls more quickly than the ultra next to it, but also that the vivid seems to stand up to cleaning better and last longer overall. I mostly swim and clean with a soft brush but we get a couple of waterblasts each year too.

We had similar symptoms a while ago. Turned out one of the n2k terminators was failing.

That sounds like a shambles. So much for being a marina built by boaties for boaties.

I think Cazzate is talking about the one he spent time on not the one in the video? Can't find anything online about Encore being lift keel.

If there was a forecast of well over 100 knots for Monday night I certainly missed it.

+1 for what Fish says above. If in Auckland ive found it a bit hard at times to find marine ply but usually have success with plyman in Henderson.

Yep, although the marina is probably more inclined to use it as justification to not have them "it's too dangerous"... Friends with a 43 foot cat had the pier lifted up and dropped on the back of their boat!

Based on the damage it certainly seems like the wind over the other side of westhaven must have been way over the 50kts peak on the squadron windgear.

Yes as BP says, if it's been leaking into the ply then the fix is along the lines of: -take off all teak -inspect ply and find any wet areas/rot -replace/repair problem areas of ply -glass over ply -fair -paint If you don't sort any wet ply out then anything you put over the top won't necessarily stop the problems that may already exist underneath from spreading.

I guess you'd push a wire through and pull the dyneema. My concern would be that the cover would make visual inspection difficult.

Or the school yard. I was in third form pre south park, yet suck my balls would have been a pretty pedestrian comment amongst my peers at school at that age.

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