Vivaldi

Yes agree with that. We had a Carpenter for a fair while. Great boats and sail well. One has done the round North Island, and our one had Done the Fiji race. They sail well and are pretty safe.

What actually happened?

We went away on Monday down to Man o War. Had a few nice days but took the sth easterly change to sail back yesterday morning. As usual whenever I book a couple of weeks leave a cyclone shows up.

BP - are you up north? - or heading to GulfHarbour?

How did you get on with your recent sails? Did you get a chance to play with the mainsail, twist etc?

We’re back at Gulf Harbour. Quite a few others coming back in today from either Rakino of Coromandel with a few hairy rides in the easterly swell. I’ve got more leave in February so fingers crossed for some settled weather.

Who is your techie?

Looking like very strong easterlies for the first part of next week

Yeah you could use it on a conventional set up - just use the middle hole and adjust the jib cars as per normal. You’ll need to be careful with it flapping during tacks though. That chunk of aluminium could hurt stuff. and yes we’ll be up on Boxing Day to head out for a cruise.

The jib clew is for attaching to the self tracker track (which doesn’t appear to be on the boat anymore). The curve with different holes allows is where it would chuckle to the sheet on the self tracker and dependant on which hole you chose gives you different trim for the jib - same as moving you jib cars forward or aft on a conventional set up.

Predict wind showing SW Monday, Tuesday

Looking a bit more Sth West now

Nice.

What has happened to Rogue 2 - back on the market?

Same - fill tanks, drink it, fill tanks again. Always keep them full between trips.