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SSANZ has an announcement about an announcement for Lewmar Race Delta!
We want to run this race but right now we don’t rate our chances. In the current Level 3 - Step 1 environment- it wouldn’t be possible to run this race. It may be possible at step 2 or step 3 but the rules keep changing so we can’t say for certain if we could.
What we do know is to run the race safely and the way we would want to we need - at minimum:
- Entered yachts to have two skippers from two different bubbles allowed
- Both skippers to be allowed below decks - for safety reasons
- A race management bubble (with multiple bubbles included)
- A few other things on top of this - but you get the idea!So for now this is our plan
- We will make an announcement at 11:59am on Tuesday 26th October - confirming if based on whatever rules are in place then we can run Race Delta on Saturday 30th October
- you can continue to enter if you had a Lewmar Triple Series or Race 3 entry for free
- If you didn’t and need to enter and pay an entry fee - entries are on hold for you until Tuesday 26th October at 12:00pm - if we can race will open this up again for 48 hours and you can enter and pay then.We appreciate everyone is mad keen to go for a sail and love the racing that we do - and we want to run the race if we can - but we also wanted to let you know our current thinking so your in the loop!
Stay safe, wear a mask, get vaccinated, go for a day cruise and fingers crossed we can go racing on Saturday 30th October thanks to our mates at Lewmar, Baltic Lifejackets, Doyle Sails, PIC Insurance Brokers and Kiwi Yachting
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Probably in trouble changing colour
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Nice carbon rig mate
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Looking at all the above
Biggest problem is as the rules change daily no one including YNZ can give any advice with any reliability
Its going to come down to making a decision in the week prior I’m thinking
Hope this is helpful, but probably not much
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All of you above have a different read of the situation
Think about how hard this is to know what’s the go, for us that are trying to make this happen, rules changing by the day
My take at present is we are going to end up in a situation where most can’t but a few can race, and nearly impossible race management. With very little if not no vision into the future.
Fortunately for us there’s a big event supposedly happening the weekend before that will hopefully open or maybe close the door on this event.
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Also not sure about how we can do race management without adopting the rest of the team ?
Fingers crossed this is only the first step
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Yep but the officials here will count the time from the Zarpe issue date and time
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8 minutes ago, Fogg said:
Get crew on board - depart berth and anchor off for 5 days to ensure everyone OK. If not go back in. If yes up anchor and depart for real?
Once you anchor before leaving territorial water you have returned and then need to clear out again. I may have done this lots of time to avoid bad weather, stop at an amazing atoll or avoid clearing out on a weekend/wait for Monday or I may not have. But officially it’s not allowed and I wouldn’t want to get caught doing it in either Aus or NZ
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12 hours ago, BOIGuy said:
Windows are only dangerous once they get here.
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1 hour ago, waikiore said:
The bus would bounce
That’s a bit cruel, but it did cross my mine
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38 minutes ago, Boatworks said:
Ha. Wow throw him under the bus why don't you Jon!!
We were talking about it yesterday and he decided 10pm wasn’t late enough so I said change it to 1159 pm
He’s now saying it’s a typo
I think it’s already corrected
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Neil’s good, but like most IT guys sometimes misses the obvious
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Yep, which way ?
You thinking it’s too short ?
Its designed to be a one off day race, if the weathers looking too light we will drop a mark or sail the short course.
If you want something a bit longer then start planning on the RNI 2023, only 17months away, will be limited and sell out in minutes. So anyone that’s serious will be planning now.
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Big project for someone
looks like buying it will be the cheapest thing the new owner ever does
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I’ve got a ‘Quick’ water heater 230vlt and engine, very happy, 60ltr from memory
Have got parts, element and thermostat from Tenob Marine
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21 hours ago, Black Panther said:
Brilliant all three. I'll download that kindle app next trip ashore. I already have the library app so will hunt around and figure how to operate it.
Jon, how does one get those books from you to my tablet?
I’ve got an iPad and tried reading from it but it’s hard on your eyes, and hard to hold for hours, but if you could try it first.
as for books I’ve got them on my desktop at home and laptop on the boat, I’ve passed them on via a memory stick or hard drive (needs to be 8Gb or larger, but smallest you get now is 32 I think)
Then you just plug the kindle into laptop, open kindle books file and drag and drop the book file into kindle documents file.
I can copy them and send to you by mail, but then you will have to forward to 100 cruising yachts 😳 I’m currently in Wellington until next week but PM me an address and I’ll send them up, I’ve had them for nearly 10years so no new titles but lots of good older stuff.
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Backlit Kindle is the way I went, touch screen so can be a little tricky to get used to when reading on watch, because if you touch side of screen it changes page,so you quickly learn to put it down and pick it up carefully.
Probably the first thing I pack for a voyage now.
Ive also got approximately 4-5000 books that have been collected from the cruising community that I’m happy to share
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Everything is fluid at present
One of the reasons we put a date out
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2 minutes ago, Deep Purple said:
Bloody good idea Jon
Pay to run this by Angus
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The organising authority may need to consider allowing skipper declaration on Cat 3 to make this event go ahead, its a two year cert so half the fleet should have one ? And maybe safety checks at the finish for a large percentage of the fleet.
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55 minutes ago, Deep Purple said:
Not while you keep running races in 30knots
Seriously though the rig does look small but with the boat weighting 600hg all up including a 300kg bulb we've never begged for more sail. Although we are about to push the limit on mainsail size ...
You always look like you’ve got a reef in off the start line, but never on the results sheet
Only 15 to max of 20 on the start line, wait until it’s really blowing
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Don’t you need a bigger mast Phil
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2 hours ago, Shimmer said:
Yeah sounds rad but can we have the extra 2 handed race in October too? We need all the 2 handed race miles we can get
Working on both
Covid will ultimately decide
Auckland to Coromandel attempt thwarted - good
in MarineTalk
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I was out in the firth on Wednesday and they should have used waterproof paint as you can’t see the line.
But on a serious not there was lots of Akl based boats fishing the farms on the coromandel side