SloopJohnB

After this mating we should be able to bleed fast houseboats.

Normally we use a truck & trailer unit, but it was busy.

Pray tell........... the names can be changed for privacy purposes .

FPSA scraping through on the smell of an oily rag Few sailors have made the kind of sacrifices Conrad Colman has in his pursuit of solo ocean racing glory. We love his story, we love his passion, we love his attitude; “I’ll sail the sh*t out of this boat, or die trying.” Conrad’s looking for some love from the SA community, so give yourself something to root for in the next Vendee Globe and throw some cash his way. Get to know Conrad in depth in this SA Innerview we did with him during the hate mission that was his Barcelona World Race, and enjoy his writing, as we do. Sick of the e

2 hulls double the fun. From the Napier Sailing Club site. Paper Tiger Catamaran (Twin hull) boat. Fast and exciting sailing. Ideal for adrenaline junkies between 65 -80 kg weight. Unfortunately I was 90 kg but still had plenty of fun.

Check out these web sites. http://www.papertiger.org.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/nzpapertigers/ Both Muritai and Evens Bay race them. Talk to John Tattersall http://www.papertiger.org.nz/index.php/contacts/nzptoa-contacts/21-area-representatives/14-john-tattersall

Get a PT.

and something my wife does not have........elbow grease.

http://afloat.ie/sail/cruising/item/31891-when-this-boat-crew-realised-what-they-were-seeing-it-was-almost-too-late-to-escape

Have you tried coke it works on everything else. I have scraped the black off with a knife but you don't get a prefect soldered joint.

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would this be the same as "cabin fever"

The four on the boat only worm the life jackets going over the bar both ways.

I went over the bar at Matarangi yesterday and the skipper threw me a lifejacket before we headed out. There was one wave without a back to it.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9J7GpVQCfms

From SA http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=172614&do=findComment&comment=5261484 Pasted below is a google trans of an article that describes what some very serious sailors are doing to shake up things in their country. Lots of people in lots of places talk about it, but the Dutch are actually doing something about it. What country will be next? Some passionate sailors and the National Youth Platform Competitive sailing is the initiative launched to accommodate the interests of the Dutch sailing in an independent National Sailing Association. The

Yes another one sails of into the sunset. "the tricky plumber" / "silver fox" plus the other crew on Roulette 2 taught me the art of offshore racing........... beer and rum drinking. Unfortunately I will miss the funeral as I am in Australia. My condolences.

Done an Onerahi 100 way back, the skipper was the first to finish, going backwards.

By MIT https://youtu.be/xgALuj6WUbk

Years ago I can remember doing a race on Sundreamer. Richmond, Round the bottom end of Waiheke or the Cow & Calf around Tiri Navy Buoy and back to Richmond. If the grey cells are alighted it took us 28 minutes to do the Nauy buoy to Rangi Light. It was a blowing a good NEly,we were was a tight reaching, and I was on the jib sheet winch down to leeward in the fire-hose. Nearly as good as screaming down to White Island on Roulette 2 with the kite up, the bow wave was round the side stays coming up higher than the boom, the Silver Fox had the tiller wedged between his legs and just rock

In the early days they kept on banging in to WA.

Nice window line

I can't match the Doc, well done by the way one of my sons and I did the 6 hour IOM race at Hobbs Wharf on Sunday changed every 1/2 hour. We finished 4th. 9 boats started 4 finished high rate of failures, we just missed 3rd by 1 lap. When we downsided the rig from A to B I had an accident when putting the boat back and knocked the rudder and rotated 90 degrees very hard to sail, took ages to get the boat back thanks to swimmer. We completed 113 laps I think the winner did 126 laps. Got a few things to do on boat to improve things like the jib sheet getting hooked up etc etc.

Can imagine a whole city of electric cars all going home at 5pm, all being plugged in at the same time as the existing evening power spike.

So what's stopping the CBD dwellers becoming crews and getting a cheap all pass, A bit like........