Bad Kitty

Superyachts use a different system for calculating stability, the boat would have had a full stability book, like any ship. It’s not a clear comparison to say “it wouldn’t meet Cat 3”

Yeah Sail GP really shines the hard cold light of reality on the AC. And it doesn’t do well!

Ah got ya, thought you meant you looked for it & gave up. Yes even as a fan of fast hi tech yachts, the racing leaves a lot to be desired!

Well every race in its entirety is on YouTube BP, maybe get one of those kids to give you a hand for 11 seconds!

Gen 2, specifically for the lower draw. I understand there’s a new antenna coming out, aimed more at campers, boats etc. IT may be able to expand on that? Even without the motor trim it’s only taking a few minutes to get signal when we power it up in the AM. Draw is looking like about 4 amps.

Yeah i get that, but it’s on a breaker! Flick it left & you’re out of touch. And for us it’s not a choice of being in touch or not. It’s a choice of having 3 months in the tropics on the cat, while checking in with the office now & again, or staying at home? If you don’t want to have a zoom call, don’t have it. I’d have starlink just for the weather. So, 3 months here, or stay home? Mmmm?

Running costs, $199/month, and when offshore (between countries) priority data is required, $3.45 GB. Once you arrive i.e. in Fiji, turn off priority data & back to $199/month. On the passage, we used $80 of data and that included weather, tracking, phone calls as required, with no restrictions. So if you’re not stupid, downloading moves & stuff it’s very affordable.

OK costs, special price from JB hifi, about $350, but even normally only about $400. We bought a tricky quick detach mount from Starmount, so 2 bolts & it’s off & onto the camper van. That was the most expensive part, but a normal Starmount flat mount is about $500-$600 US. There’s probably other options there, and I have seen them just stuck in a rod holder, but our flat mount makes it only about 60mm high on the cabin top. And removes the tracking motors, so it uses less power. Then talk to Island Time, (Matt) about your installation. We added a Predict Wind data hub,

Ignore him Matt, he’s just a sore loser. A few nice photos of beautiful Lau Group Islands & beaches & he goes all septic!

Not sure if this is marine talk or tech talk, but hey, I’m away sailing & it’s related. Starlink, bloody amazing! Total game changer for cruising, wifi calling, WhatsApp or any other net comms apps, hi speed interweb anywhere, pair it up with Predict Wind and you have tracking in realtime, over the horizon AIS, their very accurate weather routing blah blah blah. Island Time squeezed in fitting it a few days before we left, thanks Matt!

Go see chains ropes & anchors, they support sailing, and actually have a clue. Well actually they are bloody good at what they do. Try & avoid the old grumpy one, 😂

Agree to disagree on this one. These things are truly F1 on water, accelerate hard, turn even harder, I think there's plenty of water out in front of the tank farm (or what used to be the tank farm) Yep wind will be flukey in there, but so what? As long as there's enough wind to foil it'll be spectacular! As for viewing, I own a cat, great viewing platform, and live on the Shore, so easy to get to a vantage point. But I'll still buy tickets, and go thru the gate, coz it's a great event, the big screens make a big difference (see what I did there! ) and I've thoroughly enjoyed the 2 e

Just had probably the last Cat 1 issued before MNZ took it back, I see the new cost ex MNZ is over twice the YNZ rate.

This!

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Yep, don't even need to suck, Fit a tank/deck penetration, attach a hose, it'll float right on up! Diving at the depths involved is expensive, but it's all achievable.

And conditional on having a crew that will take 25-30 on the nose all day & night!

Here's a part of that report; "Separately, quarterly reporting data published by MPI last week showed six endangered Hector’s dolphins died in trawl nets in the first three months of this year."

It's BooBoo we're talking about, I imagine the stereo power draw is roughly 27,000 times the starlink draw?

CE is not any sort of class survey, it is more an ISO type thing that means you have systems in place. So, if the 1st Arcona sh*tbox has a weak rudder stock, all the following builds will meet the same low standard.

So Arcona obviously don't believe in watertight bulkheads? Jeez that'd be hard to watch. Hope they're all ok.

Well we killed 10 of them in commercial nets in the last 6 months, any discussion around who's eating Hoki? I have dived my whole life, and am passionate about conservation & the world's oceans. But eventually we should acknowledge the impact we are having on the planet. We need to strike a balance. And imho the race there proceeding is in that balance. There seems to be an assumption that the race meant a dead dolphin, which is far from the reality. It's a marine mammal reserve, complete with a commercial port, power boats, marina and a boat ramp. Oh yeah, and a sewage overflow?

That's one of the things that blew me away last year, first time we saw it live. Close, action packed, 10 boats with a stack of the best sailors in the world all in a closer quarters knife fight. We were in San Fran for the LV, and while it was fun, it was like most yachting, be great to participate in, just ok to watch. Sail GP on the other hand, watching 10 boats all charging for the first mark, holey moley! And the detail you can't see live, just look at the big screen, with replays of all the close stuff & incidents. Well worth a weekend.

It's an awesome event, best yacht racing on the planet IMHO. TV, not even close to the real thing sorry. If fact, you can watch most things that happen now on dik tok, twitbook, youtube or somewhere, I still think getting out and experiencing the real thing is worthwhile? ChCh & the organisers put on a great weekend, even with Saturday being an imaginary dolphin watch trip!

Maybe I'm taking that too personally, but I don't actually see myself as complaining about everything, just pointing out that scrubbing the seabed will have it's own consequences? There's a difference between whining about everything and applying some thought & analysis to what the media serve up every day. Sorry if that's offensive to you.