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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    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

    Any new technology updates?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    Thanks Jon. I didn't mention my phone has the same stuff as the tablet as well in case I freaked Knots out about having 4 screens.The tablet is pretty cool actually and I do use it a lot. We did have the chart plotter freak out on us at barrier this year for a few minutes, never happened before and not since. Don't know what it was , wasn't loss of signal , just a shift in position. I assume some sort of atmospheric issue( but I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else)

    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 ;-)

    Any new technology updates?

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    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 set it up and use it for weather, emails and business.

    Single Handed Spinnaker Handling

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    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 a snatch block at the base if the mast then back to a free winch in the cockpit, when you go forward ti ping the brace open the halyard jammer first then the kite will be free flying behind the main so then you can control everything from the cockpit.

    Sounds easy aye, but with practice it becomes doable

    Lagoon 42 at speed!

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    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 at all imho

    Great weather for Tauranga race

    in RaceTalk

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    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 20 - 30 knots

    % time 30 - 40 knots

    % time > 40 knots

    % time

    % time 1 - 2m swell

    % time 2 - 3m swell

    % time 3 - 4m swell

    % time 4 - 5m swell

    % time 5 - 6m swell

    In Reach

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    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

    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    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 Auckland.

     

    Completion of the 240nm course will act as a qualifier for yachts and crew wishing to enter the famous SSANZ 2 Handed Round North Island starting in February 2016.

     

    For more information and sailing instructions visit www.ssanz.co.nz

    Nearly as good as taking a packed lunch to the launching ramp

    in MarineTalk

    Posted

    I saw more than one boat over Xmas with a small riding sail off the backstay

    Saw quite a few of these on larger yachts in the Caribbean / Central Am

    Just 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

    Melbourne To Osaka info evening

    in ShortTalk

    Posted

    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

                                    The Landing, 8-10 Tamaki Drive Oahu Bay, 1071 Auckland NZ

                                    (Bar will be open and dinner available)

    Speakers              Martin Vaughan (chair of the Organising committee and 2013 competitor)

                                    TBC; Brian Petersen, Heather & John Lidgard, Greg Elliot, Brian Murray (past competitors)

     

    To keep up on the latest regarding the 2018 event, visit the  web site at www.melbourneosaka.com  or the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MelbourneOsaka

     

    For further information please contact the ORCV office on +61 3 9689 1622 or via osaka@orcv.org.au

     

    Combining steaming and anchor light

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    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

    Combining steaming and anchor light

    in TechTalk

    Posted

    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

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