Bad Kitty

Picking people up anywhere down there is tricky at low tide, Pine Harbour is the last place that's really all tide access. Maraetai Boating Club is nearly dry at low. We've had to do it for work often & it's a real drag. Usually just use Pine Harbour

2nd vote for Mahamood, great service

24 minutes, really?

No rig or sail insurance for us if standing rigging is over 10 years old. We left it to 17, but changed it before going offshore last winter.

This. I wouldn't read too much into very few people going out with a 35 knot forecast.

I loved the 2 events at ChCh, but as an event organiser, how could you go back, knowing that there could be 2 cancelled days due to dolphin sightings? And please don’t reignite the debate about whether the cancellation was good/bad or otherwise, that’s not what my comment is about.

Yeah I just love them. I’m out of touch with what the other Companies can do now, but the 3di are gorgeous. Ours are about 8 years old, done plenty of miles, and they still look EXACTLY the same shape. When they need replacing we’ll be going with the same again I imagine. And North’s do give great service!

North’s give great service, great performance, I love the 3di sails on Bad Kitty, but generally speaking you don’t often see budget & North’s in the same sentence? BooBoo you out there? What have you got on offer?

If you don’t have a drain on the fuel tank, but can get access at the top somewhere, you can use your tender outboard fuel line to pump water out? Remove the fitting at the tank/pick up end & get it to the lowest point of your diesel tank, then squeeze the primer bulb, pump water until you’re getting clean diesel. Sometimes taping it to wire, like a coat hanger will get the end into the right area?

Well not walking away from the Cat 1 role, and watching idly while it devolves into the train wreck it’s fast becoming would be a start?

Well, if you're a cruising yachtie, pretty much zero?

Nah that's free too, comes with every swim.

If I'd had SD20's I'd still have sail drives!

Yanmar sail drives, the SD40 & 50, (not sure what the 60 uses) have a sintered bronze cone clutch that has never operated acceptably. It needs sometimes frequent lapping, sometimes this lasts a season, other times a month or two before performing poorly again. Yanmar have never accepted responsibility for a poor design, and despite a couple of redesigns it never got much better. Sad because the engines are amazing! The little SD20 has a dog clutch, works great!

I'm not gonna bite BP, don't really care. 1 thing I will throw out there is while we are constantly under attack by; Council's, (removing facilities, price increases etc.) Marina Owners (Price gouging) Fisheries (no take areas that allow commercial fishing) & everyone else that views boaties as rich pr*cks ripe for the plucking, we just make it easier by dividing up all the people who love & utilise the ocean as a playground into multiple groups. Maybe recognise our common interests, and stick together as a decent size advocacy group? Just a thought