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Ok we have decided to allow you to take your kids if your doing the cruising Division "In the nature of this being a fun event we have decided to allow children to sail with there parents in the Cruising division provided they don't provide any assistance "

Anyone know of a cheapish flow detector locally ? My water maker overflows the tank when it's full over the side so I'd like to put a sensor on the overflow tube (12mm I think) so I can wire it to a small led light rather than have to go up on the foredeck to check First world problem I know, but I'm just worried about filling the ocean with fresh water ;-d

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I think you should all stay home and safe I love night sailing and it's a lot easier if your all safe at home No matter how dark it is you can always see something But heavy rain can be difficult, best to have a helmsman that just helms and a seperate person to navigate but with a good auto helm you can do both, my present boat has radar, I thought it was a waste of time until I had it

Pull the halyard out the bottom Be careful it doesn't tangle on the way down Motor over to mast gantry at PH then winch your assistant up on the gantry wire at the bottom end of the tide ( you have a lifting keel ?) Then either a thin line or even fishing line with a weight on the end that you can push over the sheave then lower it until you can fish it out of the slot ( piece of rigging wire or similar with hook bent into end ) riggers use a dozen or more nuts threaded onto the line with stopper knot either side Tape thin line to halyard end and pull back up and over the top, make sure a

We did this s in 2014 as we couldn't find a kiwi yacht around 50' that wasn't either close to $1m or 4-500k but 30 years old and needed the same spent on it We would have preferred a real kiwi yacht but they cost so much to build as a one off that we all think we should get 90% back after 10 years which still wasn't affordable for us We are happy with what we have for what we spent, had a great trip back and would do it again tomorrow Won't know if it was fiscally positive until the day we sell which isn't in the near future, but it did allow us to do it within our budget. So it was either

Yes raz88 I can't really see screaming kids fitting in at the party we had at smokehouse last year

We have always invited you to bring your extra's to the after match, we had a few get a ride out and sail back 3 or 4 up last time Maybe we can have some sort of a mothership arrangement to deliver extra crew out, possibly cruisers that don't wish to race but are keen to be involved or even them stinkpot things ? Or even ferry out, sail back ?

We are thinking about this

Not often I agree with a man that sails a steel drum or a plywood box but today is that day I'm always true North and north up on all devices, even paper charts Your scenario re navigating with a compass bearing only works if you are exactly where you think you are, if your not then your compass bearings are all wrong 'Never trust less people than two forms of info'

SSANZ in association with Chains, Ropes & Anchors is organising the ANZAC 150. Starting at 1730hrs on Friday 21st April 2017 and finishing at Great Barrier Island with a Rally home on Sunday. Key Details: Longhaul starts at 1730hrs on Friday 21st April off Westhaven Shorthaul and Cruising Divisions start 0900hrs Saturday 22nd April 3 Courses Longhaul 150 miles Shorthaul 75 miles Cruising Division 60 miles IRC Divisions subject to entries Finish at Great Barrier Prizegiving and Party Smokehouse Bay Great Barrier

Ok all that wished they were sailing and not just checking the tracker every 30min here is your chance. http://ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=155 Three different courses that you choose not limited to the size of your yacht Only limitation is you need Cat 3 for longhaul, with Shorthaul and Cruising Cat 4 Great destination finish with beach party to follow plus rally home.

A friend had one and with good sails it went really well in the club racing fleet Most are only cruised so the sails are to match but well sailed with good rags you want be disappointed, faster than a T32 I'd say, plus heaps of room and a decent motor They were mostly home built so quality will vary but for a cruiser of that size they would be hard to beat Offshore ? It would depend on the boat and crew but plenty sail worse around the world.

Don't think any leg is as tough as a S2H on average but what makes this a tough race is it's four races back to back and your two handed and generally on smaller yachts so I'd personally put this as the toughest regularly race race in this part of the world if not further a field Well done to all that got to the start line as this is in it's self an achievement And congrats to all that get around, how ever they do it.

Zenith and Squealer decided not to start and head back to Nelson Disregard their trackers as they have been switched off and removed from the boats Celadon has retired and gone into Gisborne to wait out the weather Jet has major engine problems so have suspended racing and are heading into Napier, not likely that they will resume, but they still have that option. Wedgetail had to return to port prior to the start for prop shaft repairs and started late. Reports from onboard range from crap to henus across the fleet but it's looking like the rich will get richer all the way to the

Only if your out on the water watching then it will be live and the rain will be streamingWeathers looking good for the front end of the fleet for leg 4 But the timing is still changing with each update, and all the models are now mostly agreeing

Waiting for them in Welly is getting painful After getting up to check the tracker every two hours all night and now they are further away Been for a look around the south coast this morning but can't see them as they have disappeared around the corner Neil has it correct wind and current going the same way is giving them no apparent and the wind is really only in on the shore They are running up the down escalator flat out going nowhere But wait the westerly is on its way, they are trapped between two systems Can someone do a zero to hero will be the big question now

Bluefin tuna actually Can't wait to taste it Looking like another DNF

Are Mack and Tom motoring, what's with the straight line track?? Marlin fishing actually

If you draw a line from the happy jacks to L barrier then on to C Rodney YNZ will let you run a race Cat 4 CC is Cat 3 as it goes around two Capes We (SSANZ) have been working hard to either lower category rating or run races in areas that we can get away with lower category's As for paper charts we have all but allowed yachts to not have then in the RNI as long as you have multi devices and multi forms of power I'm picking in 3 years the next RNI will be all electronic if you wish to go that way But it's really hard to argue against safety gear and it makes the organisers m

Previously the range of the divisions was fixed but unfortunately we don't know who will enter at this point, which lead to only 3 yachts in div 1 last time. Two of them turbo and one naturally aspirated So this time we have gone for Div 1, top fuel Div 2, fast 40 somethings Div 3, 35 or close enough family frighteners Div 4, classic Kiwis There are a couple there that we had to fit as best we could but the goal was to get even competition within divisions as close as possible so anyone can win there division if they sail well enough plus with 4 legs in different conditions

Long Tack to Oblivion

its a "Dark Art" if I told you I'd have to kill you or maybe I just make them up as I go along ? The thing to note is the major trophies are by division not overall

Possibly, I thought someone would go on a LTO Had this from him this morning Marshall law rni competitor position 34.38.67s 172.22.84e course 226 speed 8.1kn all good. pls acknowledge. blew out the a2 last night in a wee wipe out. bugger!!

Leg two starts at 1800hrs today