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Failed Coms file back up but it will only let me post 4 files so have taken down the Cat 4 check list
If anyone wants it email me and I'll send it back to you.
henry.farm@xtra.co.nz
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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
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Entries close next Friday the 15th April
Can we crack 50 boats, looking likely, already at 21
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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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Shorthaul 180nm now open for multi's
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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
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Sail up to the islands
That will fix the getting cold part, especially if you go now and don't come back until Nov
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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.
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Sighted heading for the Tamiki river from Issy bay direction early arvo yesterday
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 if Fitzroy is now dry it was Knot Me.
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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 time"
And the third most common one is the boats on starboard tack approaching the finish line with the helmsman looking at the finish boat with a red LED headlamp on, the boat is now showing red green red.
If someone hit them would the be in the wrong ?
Probably
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I used to often change from masthead Tri light to our lowers when in heavy traffic as in harbour people aren't looking up also in a crowded bay I often hang a LED lantern off the boom at night as well as having the anchor light on for the same reason.
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This is the one that Bart put on our mast, nice unit and only half what your header would think.
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.
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Yes it was the male that was the wrong person
It's often the case that "assumption is the mother of all fuckups"
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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
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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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It's a generational thing Tim, our gen can't resist a bargain even if they cost twice what they are worth !
But the coming gen's what it new and now, so what your saying will happen it will just take a couple of natural disasters and time
But I can see a opening for a boat dismatler to setup and buy for a $1 on trademe to scrap them
I get very surprised every time I walk around marinas at some of the boats that have weed longer than the rigging and can't believe that someone is paying the fees. Wtf
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Craig there is no way you will own it in 15 years, I'll put money on it.
The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour
SSANZ ANZAC 250
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43 entries plus one more maybe
Late entries close today so still time to join in, and the weathers looking good