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Posts posted by Jon
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My understanding is there wasn’t enough interest from us lot, so Squadron are running a fun, open to all cheap race for all
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2 hours ago, Shimmer said:
Thanks guys plenty to think about there. Any truth to the rumor Kia Kaha will be a late entry?
Always lots of rumours add Awen and Rum Bucket to the list of rumours also
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Pretty close Mark
Arbitare is from Mana
Margaritaville yes Auckland
Hans Up was Henrietta and is Pine harbour based now, was Coromandel
‘Start Me Up is Westhaven based
Sweatwaters is Auckland (I think)
Most international fleet ever, two French flagged, three Australian flagged and seven Southerners one of which is technically English/American
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In hand Ben as per design details, just waiting on someone with a day job to update things
normal entries closed yesterday, late entries are $3k
Miss Scarlet and Marshel Law have withdrawn.
Mister Lucky (Sunfast 3600 from Brisbane) Kick, and Equilibrium have entered. Now at 38 plus interest from 3 others but going on previous form we will end up at 36ishalso waiting on a few to update their boat and co-skipper details
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3 hours ago, ballystick said:
I have just noticed a small fraying cover on the rope which looks to be more significant in the future so I was looking at replacing it before it all goes to custard at just the wrong moment
Can you end for end it ?
tail has probably done no work !
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Nigel Darren Kennedy is up your way and a very good fridge tech
PM me if you need his number
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Correct we don’t know what happened
But we do know for a fact that he did avoided meeting the required NZ safety requirements
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Bit of a lesson for all there, he decided that Cat 1 was too onerous and register Offshore to avoid it.
Not saying it wouldn’t have still happened but at least he would have had a set of independent eyes look over everything.
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13 hours ago, grant said:
FB group has a D35 in the bay of islands for $30k
That looks great buying, almost makes you think what’s wrong, or are they just realistic and not negotiable
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I was 50nm south that night and we had over 50 and over 200mm of rain from Saturday afternoon until early hours Monday
‘Monday we headed further south in a good 3m swell some bigger
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1 hour ago, Hamish said:
Would it even have a holding tank?
Very large one, in fact the whole thing
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I know a few that have been with him and know someone that was on the next trip, plus reading the comments about him, if you got good weather it was a great trip but if the weather was crap you either went or forfeited your money
Not a great sense of responsibility towards safety, all about the money.
I passed him coming home from the Kings as he headed out on that trip, we were coming home because we knew the weather was about to pack up in a few days, all the other charter boats came back at least a day ahead of him or the commercial boats stayed out (cray boats)
He got it wrong and people that trusted him died. Manslaughter plain and simple to me
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Good doco, watched it a few weeks back, as BP said mostly better sails, if the keel was that good everyone would have gone that way no.
what the keel did was get it’s centre of gravity a lot lower, as in the bulbs we see now on racing yachts. The old 12 metre yachts had a very high CoG
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Well I’ve joined the racks of the unpopular
So if anyone wants a Cat 3 for coastal give me a shout
Im off to Fiji to sail a cat back on the 4th of October but can do most days between now and then
0274779745
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Looks great
If anyone comes closer than 3m tell them not to be rude and stop invading your personal space
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Opposes the lifting force of the turning bocks at the deck collar
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By settling out of court the council has avoided a finding of negligence
Therefore the next person who this happens to need to go through the whole process of proving the council is at fault
If the council had lost this it would have meant that if they put you on a mooring and it fails then they are liable
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It’s doable but you would need to be prepared to hop from harbour to harbour on nice days,
First big leg to Napier would need a big high, then pick your way north in light westerlies.
Need to go very soon or wait for summer would be my suggestion
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I’ve frequently seen ships at 30 to 40nm however class B to class B will be only 7 to 10nm depending on the mast heights and sea conditions
Transmission intervals vary according to your speed and theirs also so if when they transmitted if you had a house or land in the way you wouldn’t receive their transmission
VHF will bend around corners but not reliably so that’s why sometimes you would pick them up.
Hope that helps
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We are open to feedback as I said above, but don’t necessarily expect everything to be changed to suit the loudest voice.
The main metric on success for us is entry numbers and comparison of these against the Coastal and previously the Akl Regatta
SSANZ is run by enthusiastic volunteers on a not for profit basis, there’s no way to please all the people all the time, if you think you can do better please come and help, it will open your eyes to how much is done by so few, all for nothing other than providing good yachting.
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The problem with asking for suggestions is if we don’t adopt them then people get offended. And they may not be adopted for all sorts of reasons that aren’t apparent to the one that suggests them. Often opposing suggestions that make more sense.
Covid has brought forward the opportunity to try lots of small tweaks, one that’s here to stay are the 3 mass starts. One that needs work is the Evolution Sails 2 division, this needs splitting on waterline length, weather it should be 2 or 3 divisions I’m not 100% on. It’s the growth area and needs work but with any splitting there’s always winners and losers and it’s really hard to write a NoR then hope you get an even split, maybe this should just state that we will split this so there are no more than xx yachts in each ?
Happy to have all thoughts via email to racing@ssanz.co.nz probably best to save these until after last race
Also if your keen we are looking for race management to run this series, maybe you’ve been sailing for years and wish to put something back. I’m off to the tropics next winter
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Probably add Illiomama buoy after Motukorea buoy and drop Bean rock
But that’s getting a bit ahead yet
Call will be made on finish location in a week, could even end up with a raftup in Islington Bay yet if the weathers not playing nice
Handicaps will be posted on Thursday as per previous two races
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NRC inviting yachties to their Office in Water street Whangarei
in MarineTalk
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Just catching up with this but don’t see why Northland Councils are so pissy about this
We cleared into Marsden Cove about a month ago and there’s fan worm on the pontoons there
The stable door is open, horse bolted and a spark from its shoe set the whole farmyard alight.