Jon

Hope Voom isn't too quick I've got to start the small boats and cruising division on Friday morning then sail out to Nagles Cove to be ready to finish the fleet. Lucky we have big diesel so should make it

Shorthaul 180nm now open for multi's

We often had 4 or more mobile devices with navionics loaded on board at a time plus a handheld Garmin that never came out of the bag except about once a month used to fire it up briefly so t had a rough idea what part of the globe we were sitting on. All you need now is an Iridium Go and you'll be fully mobile and set to circumnavigate

Sail up to the islands That will fix the getting cold part, especially if you go now and don't come back until Nov

John B looks like you've now got a good system very similar to what I used sailing back from Europe. I bet you end up using the tablet a lot more than you expect, just for planning and what if's and just how far are we off x or y When we were going through tricking passes it was always good to have both the CP and tablet in the cockpit, if they both say the same it gives you confidence, sometimes they didn't but overal Navionics on the tablet was more on the money. The laptop I had down below never ended up being setup for Nav even though I had all the gear, just never needed it, but did se

Sighted heading for the Tamiki river from Issy bay direction early arvo yesterday

Trail the brace behind also then before you drop you can see if both the halyard and brace are tangle free I still like to ping the brace but will run it if needed, the biggest help is getting the headsail up first then running off deep, don't allow yourself to carry it too long and on a reach you will often do better two sailing as you'll travel less distance and won't spend the next leg with a large flag rapped around your forestay As for your halyard if you haven't a jammer on your mast above your winch then add one, this allows you to remove the halyard from the winch and run it through

Doesn't look like reality to me, possibly with no interior or supplies and an oversized rig but that's not the real world. We sailed from the Galapogus to the Maquases 3000nm in 17 days, a Lagoon 56 departed a day after us and arrived 3 days behind us and we are a 52' 18t mono with just my daughter and I plus two pensioners onboard we also don't have any extras either, but we did do 1000nm in the first 5 days. They were part of the world ARC so we leapfrogged us all the way through the Americas and pacific, they were the gunboat with an Oyster 575 'Juno' which shared the honours so not fast a

All I can say Glen is make sure you take more than one lunch This is for a Y11 starting at 1000hrs ? PWC/CMC PWC CMC Forecast Update 00 UTC 12 UTC Timezone GMT+13:00 GMT+13:00 Start Time 25 Mar 10:00 25 Mar 10:00 Finish Time 26 Mar 06:17 26 Mar 10:03 Time Taken 20h 17m 17s 1 day 0h 3m 54s Distance Traveled 240.9km, 130.1nm 238.2km, 128.6nm Passage Time (days) 0.8 1.0 Max wind speed (knots) 16.7 8.9 Min wind speed (knots) 1.9 0.4 Ave wind speed (knots) 8.2 3.9 % time upwind 24% 15% % time reaching 57% 33% % time downwind 19% 52% % time % time 8 - 20 knots 26% 5% % time

Entries are open and 5 boats in so far Don't forget that we've add a small boat and cruising (for all the E1050's) divisions this year http://ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=125

Dates etc on this poster Feel free to print and post on your yacht club notice board SSANZ_TRIPLE_A4_POSTER.pdf

Interesting Martin Vaughan that came over from Melboure for the M2O evening on Tuesday told me that this is what the ORCV is setting up to use If you want a tracker just for yourself then the satphone store in the US were doing spot trackers before Christmas and if you signed up for 3 years at $100us per year they gave you the tracker

Melbourne Osaka Information Evening Opens 6pm at RAYC Tuesday 16th Feb starting at 7pm That's Tonight! Bar and kitchen open from 6pm

Here ya go http://ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=125

You will probably find its cheaper to buy one here and then sell it over there, especially if you can get someone to sell you one ex gst for export, some crowed are happy to do this if you take your boat papers along with you

Yes Very soon But here's something to go on On the back of its huge success last year with 28 yachts on the starting line, the Shorthanded Sailing Association of New Zealand (SSANZ) in conjunction with Chains Ropes and Anchors will be running another 2 handed event over Anzac weekend – the ANZAC250. With fantastic prizes and historic trophies up for grabs - there are three courses 60nm, 180nm and 240nm catering for all yachts from serious racers to cruising. All courses finish at Great Barrier Island for the prize giving and inaugural beach party with a rally back home to A

You can clear into or out of Auckland 7 days a week and probably Opua if you book and definitely in the season, but just email the address below, they are very helpful yachts@customs.govt.nz

Saw quite a few of these on larger yachts in the Caribbean / Central AmJust a right angle triangle of canvas about 1m on two short sides with eyes in each corner, long edge parallel to backstay strops off bottom and square points and spare main halyard or topper on top point. One strop to end of boom other to stern. They seemed to work but not sure about a light Ross boat, maybe try reverse set storm kite Think I'll take one next time I go offshore as they are easy to make and don't take up any space

Info Night – 2018 Melbourne to Osaka 2018 Melbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race The next Melbourne to Osaka double handed yacht race will be held in March 2018. To let people know about the race, a number of information sessions are being conducted around Australia and NZ. The sessions will include presentations on aspects of the race as well as an informal panel style discussion. If you are interested, please come along and tell others about the event as well. When Tuesday 16th February, 7.30-8.30pm Where Royal Akarana Yacht Club

This has to be a steel for a first keeler What's the new one ?

Terry I've used this type of stuff below, I know you used to be able to get it from Bursco, maybe still can I got some in the Caribbean, but it didn't fix the split seam in the floor, though it did sort the side seam on the pontoon Bit tricky to get in but then you inflate about half and roll it around with the leak down obviously http://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine--inflatable-boat-sealant--444679/zoomImages

Buy it from CRAp if you like I was just giving an example, I put it under the Bimini then it isn't an anchor light but a cockpit light which makes the boat findable coming home drunk By the way I got fined n St Martin for operating a dink after dark without a touch I was a bit slow though I could have shined the light on my phone in there eyes but it's funny how us kiwis seem to go dumb when looking at the wrong end of coastguard automatic guns Life jackets not needed though

One of these, $8.50 at Bunnings Cheaper than marmite too I've got the euro model which I can dial down the light though http://www.bunnings.co.nz/lantern-camping-mini-click-_p00279397

This time last year we were in the Caribbean so I would hang a LED lantern off the boom at night as there was alway boats moving around and with lights everywhere from superyachts and onshore the chances of someone missing our anchor light was quite high I felt. It takes 4 D size batteries and I only changed them once between the Med and NZ

I'm with you all above, sick of hearing about someone relocating to the next bay so on a trip along the coast I just leave the vhf on 16 otherwise is turned off. I just use the coastguard app or more often the observations on predict wind as you can bring up the graph of what's happening which gives you the trend which is the most important thing. I'll see if I can add it