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    2018 Chains, Ropes and Anchors ANZAC Enduro

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    Agree with that Meister--no-one in the Cruising Division yet --maybe they don't realise that Cat 3 is not required .

    Cut off for entries is l believe the 20h so sort yourselves out and enter c

    That other treat is so last year

    This ones the real deal

     

    Cruising and Shorthaul are both Cat 4

    Cruising you don’t need a phrf as it’s run on race track plus you can bring your kids if you have too

    Route 66

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    Different in Oz?

    Nope, it is an au system and cost clubs per entry.

     

    We are currently developing our own new system at SSANZ, once it’s proven it can probably be made available to other clubs ( for a small fee )

    Our current entry system has become outdated and clunky. New system will save info like TY but will be hopefully a lot more user friendly, plus you will be able to go back in and edit your info if you change crew or don’t have all your info at the time of entry.

    Won’t be live for the CR&A Anzac Enduro but hopefully fully functional for the Triple Series

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    2018 Chains, Ropes and Anchors ANZAC Enduro

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    flc can you handle the aftermatch ?

     

    It’s been brought to our attention that we didn’t say no extras in the cruising division, after some thought about leaving it like that we have decided to do an amendment to not allow extras, but we have also decided to allow kids under 12 to be on board for the cruising division.

    Prize giving will be 18yrs and over or parental supervision as it may contain nuts, rum or both.

    Auckland-Noumea

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    Al Gwyre does a full course that takes one day, sure you start early morning in the pool and you don’t stop for cups of tea every few minutes, the full course is 10hrs learning so it’s doable

    He is more expensive but I’m told the content is much better, haven’t done it myself and have no link to it but sounds the way to go.

    Is it worth to the VHF radio have DSC function. Anyone use it?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Yes we need your expired flares

    Handheld but I can dispose of your para’s also

    PM or text me and I’ll tell you where to leave them on my boat at Westhaven or if your elsewhere arrange to collect

    We use them as a landing aid for the big red and yellow bird

    In town they don’t want them as the Westpac doesn’t respond but it the real NZ often the people we are assisting aren’t next to the big red truck or if they are it’s a good way to direct the red bird to the landing spot which is often 100’s of metres away in a paddock.

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    2018 Chains, Ropes and Anchors ANZAC Enduro

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    No list yet as no entries yet

    But there’s a good chance of being the first Wil.

    Should be worth a bottle of rum for being first I’m thinking, unless you win one for something else then we will share them around.

    If you enter early and decide your in the wrong division then we can sort that out later, but there are a good mix of large and small looking to do the longhaul

    SSANZ 2019 Round New Zealand Race

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    No boat or skipper has been around twice

    As for Ma’ara, BooBoo wants me to make a truck racing division with him, management isn’t keen on me taking her nice cruiser and Rogue is in a different ocean yet

    Also we don’t have any down wind or light air sails, but the heat pumps make it tempting after seeing icebergs below Southland, no that’s right it was Solander Island, but it did look like a dirty berg when it came over the horizon and it was sure cold enough

    2018 Chains, Ropes and Anchors ANZAC Enduro

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    The long course is a best case scenario

    I want the fleet finishing daylight Saturday,

    so I’ll shorten if need be to get the fleet in between Friday evening to Saturday afternoon

    If there are a group of 30 footers wanting a 300nm option we will look at that too

    The goal is to get everyone to smokehouse for a quite rum

    SSANZ 2019 Round New Zealand Race

    in RaceTalk

    Posted

    Register your interest for the

    2019 Round New Zealand 2 Handed Yacht Race

     

     

    With just over 1 year until the start, it's now crunch time for SSANZ regarding the organisation of the 2019 Round New Zealand Race. If you are intending to compete in the race, we need to know by Tuesday 12 February 2018.

     

    All the race information can be found here, this includes the Entrants Guide, Notice of Race and the online Entry Form. http://www.ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=149

     

    So if you are intersted in doing the race, either get your entry in or contact Jon Henry (Race Director) via email maara@xtra.co.nz or give him a call on 027 477 9745.

     

    Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you.

     

    Regards

     

    The SSANZ Team

    Hot water cylinder to hot

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    We have a ball valve in the hose between the engine and the hot water cylinder

    Up in the tropics I would just crack it open to reduce the flow as it took no time to heat

    Down here I leave it open but close it if I’m motoring a long way after about an hour otherwise we have 90deg water at the hot tap

    This Weekend's Achievements

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Extended a little bit is about 300mm longer than before, a finer entry should push a bit less water and stop less when punching upwind. The bow section is basically sacrificial forward of the fore stay bulkhead the old one was a bit soft I literally punched a hole in it and pulled it off.

     

    If the front falls off then tow it out of the environment

     

    Looking good Wil

    Be interesting to see how she goes, that old bulge never looked pretty but was to help lift the bow on the boast I guess, extra length should help both up and down wind hopefully

    Did you consider going reverse like the latest multi craze ?

    Auckland mooring locations?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Waitak is top of tide only, I believe one of the yachts there circumnavigated and did many channels in Europe with its lifting keel

    Thames berths are not actually legal just historical berths, the only way to acquirer one is to buy an existing boat and berth I’m told, but they sit in the mud more than half the tide, there are a few keelers there but older full keel types, there was a Matangi there recently.

    Cleveland or Whitford rivers would be options but similar travel time to LSB. Anything in the Tamaki river will be longer travel times

    We live south of the Bombay’s and keep our boat at Westhaven, it’s all about picking your travel times, but at least we don’t have to then line that up with the tide, moon, planets and stars.

    Battery bank size verses charging capacity

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Typing on a ph so big fingers and small numbers

    9 should have been 0

    So load very rarely drops below 10 amps but I've seen it in the high teens when AP is working hard

    The original batteries lasted 8 years so not all bad considering the use they had

    Euro boats do have a much higher load than kiwi boats but then you have more boat as well

    Typical day at sea we run genset for 1 to 1 1/2 hours to make breakfast and fill water tank

    Then will run it again in the evening, that gives us over 200amos in the bank so slightly running in deficit , when the wind is light we will use the main engine at 1500rpm this is putting in 150 amps every hour so 6 hours of motor sailing tops everything right up

    Battery bank size verses charging capacity

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Josh, we have 5 house batteries

    Can't remember exactly but either 180 or 220 amp hours each

    We now have two 150 w solar panels, but only added them here, we can run the boat on a mooring off the solar but our main baulk charging comes the 170amp alt on the main engine or if we are sailing we use the genset and have a 80amp mains charger connected

    The genset only uses 1 ltr per hour and we would run it for two to three hours a day

    We don't have a battery monitor thing, I've never really had much faith in them personally, preferred to just keep an eye on the volts

    I'd say we use between 10 to 29 amps to run the boat at sea, but we have two fridges and a freezer so one more than you

    Battery bank size verses charging capacity

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Josh another thing to check that had me going when we first got our boat in the Med was the digital readout on the instruments wasn't  calibrated

    We thought the batteries were flat every morning  but when I checked them at the battery terminals they were reading 12.4 but the instruments were saying 11.9 or something like this

    I reset this and then found out everything was OK, the previous owner had put in a new charger and had bought a load tester all because the readout was wrong

    also check that the power into the instrument computer is the same as the batteries as a dirty connection will also give a incorrect reading.

    If the batteries are original or over 5 or 6 years then your doing the right thing considering the length of trip your undertaking

    Another thing is you can possibly make more changes in the Caribbean if you still haven't sorted things by then, It will be cheaper there as you will be paying in USD plus the Med is a lot more expensive in general we found.

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