Battleship

Truxton on the way up from Tauranga now. Nice calm night out here.

We used 2205 on our rudder stock, lovely stuff they use it for hydraulic rams on big diggers, It allowed us to make the rudder much thinner and still be safely over spec. The engineer told me the 2205 had double the flex resistance of 316. And yes we had to get a welder who knows his stuff to weld the webs on.

We went to hanks, along with a reefing Jib pretty good, changing to a no.1 is a pain though.

Going to hanks or a furler?

What sort of boat is it? I know most of the Cav's had monel. The Cav36 I owned definitely did.

Is it possible for carbon and fibreglass to fossilise? Could be a problem soon. I heard that the owner fossilised a few years back and now has trouble moving.

That was rolled, waterblasted clean pretty easily then a wet sand with sanding screens and re-apply.

Re-coated ours today, had been on about 28 months not barnacles but the slime and a bit of weed was starting to cling on a a lot quicker, put on light grey then mid grey so we know when its starting to wear, Warpaint is currently $180 for 4 litres. Close up of substrate after 28 months Finished.

There appears to be an entry in the cruising division now. Amazing I thought that boat was destined to be in the shed for eternity, ready to be discovered by archaeologists in the distant future. Well done that Man.

Depends who is doing the job a lot. But yes generally spraying is a better finish. I have seen shocking examples of both. Got it sprayed last time and needed twice as much paint. When you.add in the cost of the application rolling is better for non race boats in my humble opinion. You can always give it a quick wet and dry if you want a super smooth finish.

No just used both, international antifoul makes me seriously crook. Warpaint no so much. The thinner they sell to use with it just seems to be turps.

Use it and like it. Don't expect it to work well after about 12 months it's been on one of the boats for over 2 years and has pretty much stopped working, but could probably be revived with a sand. It is very.nice to use and seems a lot less toxic than the international stuff.

8 inches sounds like a hell of a lot of sag on a 13 mtr rig, have you had a rigger check it? With a fractional rig like that without runners most of your forestay tension will be on the caps. Depending on the boat you may or may not be able to get enough tension on them, some boats get to a certain tension then you start winding the boat toward the rig. If however this amount of sag is normal for your type of boat the sail will be cut to allow for this, that fact that you have posted this suggests this is maybe not normal and could point to an issue elsewhere. If it were me I would get a rig

They all seem to be making way again now, looks like maybe some downwind work late in the race.

Don't know how many are following this but some good stories coming out on Facebook. A lot of the fleet including the Sunfast division pulled into shore to hold up and avoid the coming cyclone. http://melbourneosaka.com/en/news/ Tracker https://race.bluewatertracks.com/2018-osaka-race

The tracker shows the finish line outside the river in the ocean so shouldn't be too fickle, maybe a bit of shifty stuff from the headland but hopefully Brunel can hang on.

We have both of those onboard, a true survival suit is very difficult to move in and near impossible to sail a yacht whilst wearing one. Drysuits are fantastic for sailing in, warm and dry but would eventually get wet if you were immersed for any length of time as they are simply multiple layers of Goretex with seals at the cuffs and neck. Great for winter racing.

http://yb.tl/stc2018# Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SoloTransTasmanYachtChallenge/

Your new ride Hayden?

He didn't have a survival suit on just a drysuit so wouldn't last long unfortunately. Update. https://www.facebook.com/volvooceanrace/videos/10156745907492437/?notif_id=1521983626986979&notif_t=live_video_explicit

To be fair Mooloolaba is generally nice tropical and Sunny, just the trip home potentially not much fun. This race is on the bucket list for me, maybe next one.

Fair enough

Ok, so avoids the Horn of Africa, makes sense.

Wow great read. Lucky to escape that one. There is obviously still cruising traffic in the Gulf of Aden I don't know much about the area but why risk it?

Quite possible but then you wont feel guilty about it. I'm all for doing as much as possible oneself but safety gear is where I don't skimp. And there is of course a slim chance there might be a seal that has to be replaced that you might not notice. Also it will most likely void your safety cert and if there was an issue and someone got hurt you would possibly be found negligent in this day and age.