Bad Kitty
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should be home by July
Typo there? Should read "be home by November, leaving July, via New Cal, Vanuatu, Fiji maybe"
There, I fixed it for you!
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Thanks BP, great read.
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I'm impressed that most of the crew.org mob understand that weather is just that, weather.
Anyone that expects that a forecast is cast in stone will have some disappointments, and occasionally the forecasters get it totally wrong, even Predict Wind, whom I idolize.
Welcome to the world, it's an imperfect life!
Forecasting in Arizona is pretty simple, NZ, not so much.
Happy sailing kids!
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Sorry to disappoint the tin hat wearers but wheels is correct.
Paranoid sandwich stealers, thanks for the contribution, but your dysfunctional regulatory regime has no connection to ours.
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If you are relying on only 1 forecast, being the free public service, for your boating planning, then you’re in for some disappointing & probably dangerous times.
Personally I really rate predict wind, but there are other options also.
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And good on him, not my sort of trip at all but best wishes all the same.
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won't need it
if he doesn't put into any ports
officially
Needs Cat 1 to leave NZ.
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That's version 1, bit of a test run, #2 coming out of the moulds now.
Whole thing weighs less than the seat & lid of a standard version.
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All the best presents are made of carbon right?
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Given how rarely injectors need work, & that a 4 cylinder diesel still needs an injector pump anyway, albeit slightly simpler, I wouldn't have thought the running costs much different?
Could be wrong though,
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Petrol in boats, Awesome!
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Or you can get an Eberspacher that heats glycol rather than just air, & circulates it thru little heater matrixes.
Put a few of those where you want. You can even run it thru some pipe in the head & have a heated towel rail.
On Bad Kitty it runs thru the hot water cylinder also, heats the water.
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Barrier cream, always,
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When it comes to oil, IMHO, it is worth considering how much you can save buying some crap from supercheap over the manufacturers genuine oil.
And how important oil is to the life of an engine.
Just my 2 cents worth, I'm sure there are people that will tell you the $5 saved is worth it,
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No fun BP, but the only person who will look after your interests in this is you.
Sometimes you just have to stand up & slice the meat buddy!
KMcC's advice sounds pretty good to me.
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Can't last forever, down to the last 3 cases of Pinot Noir.
Poked our nose into Whananaki, pretty short of water in there but it is beautiful.
Moving on................
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Anyone been in here recently?
Chart shows some nav marks, but not much other detail,
Ta,
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There's always 1 ars*#ole isn't there booboo! We're putting up photos of Waiheke, Rangitoto, maybe Barrier if we're being really adventurous, and you slap up a photo spread like that!
I hope you drop your bar b mate in 3000mtrs of water & have to cook for 6 weeks without one.
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Bottom photo of KM's, bottom right of frame under the strut that holds the wing on is where I mean to anchor.
Much further than that and there's a whole lot more moored boats, & it will shallow up.
I think you'll be ok at 1.8, tricky bit is every tide change you'll swing 180 & fall back the other way in the channel.
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CRA/Knot Me is the only game in town as far as i'm concerned
Yep, owner is pretty out there, but knows something about bondage for sure.
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Entrance is fine unless it's a really good easterly & swell.
Don't cut the corner outside the entrance, there are rocks to the NE of the stbd mark.
Motor up thru the moored boats & take the channel to the south toward the wharf & boat ramp.
I'd anchor just past the moored boats in the gap before the second lot of mooring up by the wharf.
Pretty crowded once you get up there.
Reasonably strong tidal movement, maybe 2 knots?
Holding is good though.
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Sorry to hear that, sad day.
But on the bright side, at least now you can start looking at cats!
Too soon?
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Lovely spot in calm weather! Will you pop into Houhora?
Probably not this trip, headed toward the Cavalli's now,
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Well it's been a mixed bag of weather out here, from hiding out in Whangaroa with 50 knots & plenty of rain, to this at Cape Maria Van Diemen a few days later!Had 3 nights at 3 Capes, North, Reinga & Van Diemen, still glassy calm up here with days of it still by the look of it. Hope everyone came thru the blow ok,
Bad Kitty
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Cayman Islands Registry?
in MarineTalk
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Gotta agree with IT here, no dramas whatsoever, and I don't think it required anything on the cat that I wouldn't take anyway.