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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    I've added the safety inspection check sheets to this event page on the SSANZ website for your reference. Should make checking your yacht for compliance easier http://ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=125
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    Entries close next Friday the 15th April Can we crack 50 boats, looking likely, already at 21
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    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
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    Shorthaul 180nm now open for multi's
  5. 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
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    Cabin heat

    Sail up to the islands That will fix the getting cold part, especially if you go now and don't come back until Nov
  7. 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
  8. Sighted heading for the Tamiki river from Issy bay direction early arvo yesterday
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

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

    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
  15. Melbourne Osaka Information Evening Opens 6pm at RAYC Tuesday 16th Feb starting at 7pm That's Tonight! Bar and kitchen open from 6pm
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    Here ya go http://ssanz.co.nz/events/index.html?id=125
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    SSANZ ANZAC 250

    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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Or buy a new anchor from CRA My boss is waiting to have a piece of KM next time she sees him, he's removed her biggest concern whilst cruising now we have a new Sarca Excel anchor I'm now worrying about what she will start worrying about now. Sets the best of any anchor I've ever seen and when everyone was dragging at Fitzroy over new year our biggest concern was wether we would be able to lift ours after 3 days in one spot, we had to drive over it twice but then it lifted, for a moment I thought that all the water may disapair as we had lifted the plug. But no all good when we left, so
  21. mb yes that's not correct, your showing the lights of a vessel under power, and any other yacht under sail and showing the correct lights can expect you to give way With most of the yachts finishing the SSANZ races in the dark we see many that aren't compliant and some that are wrong and unsafe. I've pointed this out to some when I've had a chance but this mostly hasn't been appreciated One of the most common faults are faded lenses on Tri lights, the green will look white until very close, Another one is "na that boats motoring so it can't be one of ours don't worry about taking their
  22. This is the one that Bart put on our mast, nice unit and only half what your header would think. http://www.hellamarine.com/en/products/navigation-lamps/tri-colour/2-nm-naviled-trio-tri-colour-led-navigation-lamp.html If you can get one at trade it would be a good option, it's 400g so something half the size would be ideal for the racing, trailer, sport boat fleet, you don't comply with motoring regs but that said they tend to keep working heaps better if installed well, and being up out of the way and water.
  23. Yes it was the male that was the wrong person It's often the case that "assumption is the mother of all fuckups"
  24. Yes I know of a major brokerage who missed a very large sale by only talking to the wrong person recently. It happens all the time And just remember flash cars and suits often equal DEBT
  25. I think what the doomsayers are missing is the only ones hurting are the ones exiting boat ownership It's all about the difference between selling and buying, If your in boating for investment then your dreaming mate We listed our boat for less than I thought it was worth and definatly less than it owed us but it sold in 4 days ( probably lucky ) but we can buy a lot cheaper also in this market IMHO there are people out there that aren't meeting the market, some because they don't really wish to sell and others because their dreaming, but there are always options in any market.
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