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Otherwise Doyles in Rosebank Rd can supply the stiff battens.
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43 minutes ago, motorb said:
I suppose nobody would have a bosuns chair handy at Home Bay, Rotoroa?
We had a shroud cover kindly land on deck today and it's a few more days till we get back to westhaven...
I’ve got a full body harness on board. Currently in Huruhi Bay. If you want it your welcome to pick it up.
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Cheers - I was mainly using the wind map, but these tables look good.
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Hi All,
‘was wondering what most people use in the Predict Wind models - mine is usually on ECMWF, but do others find any particular model the best for the Hauraki Gulf?
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The sealant on the windows had become so sun damaged the black pigment was leaching out, and one started to leak. Knifed out the old sealant and put new in.
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On 31/10/2023 at 8:04 PM, Auriga_crew said:
True that. After we got away from the park up at the start we had a good sail up to Kawau, boat loping along just as it did 45 odd years ago with wind a little forward of the beam. We had been watching what was happening ahead and Predictwind was telling us that when we got to Cape Brett (4.00am-ish) we could expect wind in the high 20s with gusts in the high 30s and rain. We also new that there would be a big confused sea running as it had been blowing easterly for some time. And so ... four guys with average ages closer to 70 than 60, after much discussion, said: "You know what, we have no need to prove anything to anyone, why would we put ourselves through this, we are here for the fun and this will not be fun." So we dived into Kawau Bay, had a hot meal with a bottle of red (Elephant Hill) and had a lazy sail back to Westhaven. Ended up have a great, albeit expensive, day sailing.
We are very pleased with where we have got to with the boat and have every confidence that the boat would not have been an issue had we carried on. The challenge for us now is get out and use it over summer.
Then we woke up on Sunday to some very very sad news ....
Good call, and sounds like a good day out.
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On 9/10/2023 at 4:29 PM, aardvarkash10 said:
How did they get on? @lebleaux?
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6 hours ago, Cheap Transport said:
Used a lot of it last year during our 1020 refit.
Key to no bubbles is getting your thinning ratios right for your chosen application, temperature and relative humidity. To get your UV stability, reduce long term chalking of the coating etc you should be adding 15-20% durepox high performance gloss into your white/ black/ whatever durepox colour you have (unless it's below the water line, then I'm not sure).
In regards to what Guest said about the tape tearing the paint, it really depends on what tape type using. It surprises me how few people are using the more modern Washi tapes (rice paper tape), and continue to use crepe paper or vinyl tapes from the likes of 3M or Scotch or similar. There's good quality washi tapes available that have wax polymer coatings on them meaning the paint won't stick to it, while leaving razor sharp lines when you remove it. I've moved a few guys onto it down at our local club with a boat builder now buying it by the box full. It'll change your life🤣
Where can you the Washi tapes from?
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I’ve had good service from this guy
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2 hours ago, K4309 said:
They aren't building Penlink just so they can cancel the ferry service. To think so is naïve.
I think you will find that AT can't handle the ferry operator. But there are loads of bus operators so they are easier to push around. Hence AT want buses.
I didn’t say they were building it to shut the ferry down - but completion of Penlink is the rationale for ending the ferry service. So it’s not a naive statement
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Auckland is surrounded by water which is essentially free transport infrastructure - future transport planning needs to factor this in and look toward developing a comprehensive ferry service from a range of points around the city. Replacing a ferry service by building a new road (pen link) is just dopey.
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Saw it had moved this morning and wondered where it had gone
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On 19/06/2023 at 7:58 AM, Ex Machina said:
Surely not Rudolph shack !?
Definitely not Rudolph. He said that he used to have a bit to do with the boat back in its day - knew some of the sailors. He had been trying to buy it for some time and had a couple of court cases in the process. Seemed very enthusiastic.
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I spoke to the guy who bought is when it was about to go back in the water. He said he planned to take it up to the Mahurangi where he had some land and was going to haul it out up there and work on it.
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Saw it on a marina at fairway bay last week
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1 hour ago, B00B00 said:
Would think this one is ideal for you.
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.
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What actually happened?
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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.
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10 minutes ago, Black Panther said:
Getting out of the river was interesting. Now I think moving yesterday would have been smarter.
BP - are you up north? - or heading to GulfHarbour?
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How did you get on with your recent sails? Did you get a chance to play with the mainsail, twist etc?
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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.
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Who is your techie?
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Looking like very strong easterlies for the first part of next week
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I can thoroughly recommend an Elliott 1050 - there’s one on trademe at the moment!