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I have a Farr940 (N30) on a trailer kept in hard stand in part to avoid the marina issue. We have also taken up short term marina hire for convenience when we want to sail an area for a month or two, remembering we are land locked.

Hi Looking for a source of the 'P section' thermoplastic rubber used on the edge of a fridge lid. Tall side of P about 10-15mm, diameter of P 6mm (see pic).

I understand you should use a specialist one on the saildrive, not always the same as used on the hull. Can someone clarify this, thanks.

Things have changed ..... roll on tomorrow .

There is also a story in the BOPTYS Newsletter (Mainsheet); https://tinyurl.com/y8ufnvlv Shes a great boat to see sailing .. the owner is always keen to talk about her. Over the years I've meet people who build boats, people who sail them .... very few are the same person.

This has come out from Defense HQ: The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has found the New Zealand-owned yacht that made a distress call at dawn off the coast of Fiji. Air Commodore Darryn Webb, the Air Component Commander, said a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft spotted the yacht SV Jungle beached on the reef at Tuvana-I-Ra atoll approximately 425 kilometres southeast of the Fijian capital of Suva. “The yacht’s four crew members had abandoned the yacht and are safe and well on the atoll,” Air Commodore Webb said. “They used the yacht’s radio to establish communications with

I'm involved in numerous remote data collection sites (seismic, GPS etc) and we design for a min 7:1 ratio. That is if the site draws 1A, we have solar that is rated for at least 7A of output. If its a poor site (hill that is often in cloud etc we up it to 10:1). Our panels are fixed and we are looking at the system going all year (we Tx continuously). Only a boat in a marina with the panels orientated similar would meet the same efficiency we achieve; anything under way, at anchor etc would be less efficient. More efficiency would be gained if the boat in a marina tracked the sun.

Check out the BOPTYS Rotorua Facebook page for more photos .... Thanks KiwiFish for the story

We are back on the lake, no need (no tides). Just back up to beach.

What is the recommended approach for storing an inflatable; 1) Leave inflated 2) let some air out 3) deflate and roll up It is at home in the garage, out of the sun, however it takes up a lot of space. Thanks

I remember in 1987 when we were doing marine geophysics between the Kermadec trench and Lord Howe Rise we trawled for plastic debris and captured grams per square kilometre even then. The most common stuff was the beeds, then fishing related debris.

Quick up date ... we used the topping lift to hoist the main, worked ok for the couple of months we had the boat on the Gulf. Now the mast is down, I used the topping lift to pull two tails through; one to pull the topping lift back and the second to restore the main halyard. Just need to put mast back up now.

Great story .....

If your a member of an afilliiated yacht club, YNZ offer a group scheme via AON, similar the the scheme operated by the NZTYA with AON for trailer yachts.

Thanks Willow ..... fleet is making great progress.

Is there a race tracker .....

Yet at Whakatane it looks calm .... http://www.coastguardwhakatane.co.nz/whakatane-harbour-cam

Hi What level of preparation is needed for the next 2 days? Boats on a marina berth ..... Lash off mainsail, extra Spring lines ? What are people doing

Many of the Taranaki trailer yachts cruise on the Rotorua lakes, a quick ask around will soon get you sorted.

Thanks Sundreamer. That has given me an idea or two to work with, one maybe able to get to the spreaders in some comfort (safety) and use spinnaker pole topper exit box ....

That is impressive ...

As a consequence of our shake down sail and over nighter we have ended up with the main halyard pulled inside the mast. Forgot the knot when putting mast up and while at anchor over night the rocking pumped the halyard ! The boat is a Farr 940 (Noelex 30), so relatively light tapered mast. There is a 6 mm topping lift that goes to the top. I estimate the halyard is 3-4 m inside the mast. I feel the recovery (via a trip up the mast) is outside of my comfort zone, so are looking for advise and help on this one; 1) How would you do this (trip up mast, pushing it back in), parking next to

Hi Agree with the tardis comment! Sure is after a 6.5 m trailer yacht. She is normally kept on the trailer in a hard stand on Lake Rotoiti (www.boptys.net) it is possible to launch her single handed. The two of us can get the Mast up and down, due too a very well engineered A frame system for getting it done. Our plans are to have her in a marina for 2-3 months each year and back on the lake the rest of the time. Have had her on the lake for past year, gave us time to learn how to sail her, reefing, manovering etc. We got her from Taupo, the national home of 30's.

Hi Yes she is a Farr940(Noelex 30). We have had trailer yachts for over 30 yrs and are Rotorua based. This way we get a bit of both.

Yes it is a change .... sure was nice to have some space.